Strengthening voices: How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s drylands

This booklet describes the acheivements of the ‘Strengthening Voices’ project launched in 2007. It explains How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s drylands. It informs that national politicians, local district officials and community participants have all benefited from the training and that at the end of its 1st three-year phase good progress has been made in designing and implementing tools and approaches that promote citizen access to decision-making. With their new evidence, training and advocacy skills, people are now better able to inform policy of the economic and environmental benefits of dryland livelihood systems.

The project was launched by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Kimmage Development Studies Centre and the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum. The brochure explains the project is planned to build on its success and to roll out the project to other districts in Tanzania, and elsewhere in East Africa.