Better lives through livestock
Planning across borders for improved rangeland management:
the case of JVLUP in Tanzania
Fiona Flintan (ILRI) and Zakaria Faustin (TNRF)
Land Use Planning for Sustainability. R4d Synthesis
Workshop East Africa. 3-5 May 2022, Aberdare Country
Club, Kenya

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Context
- Facilitating policy and legislation - VLUP
- Decentralisation of political decision-
making powers
- Conflicts between land users including
farmers and herders/pastoralists
- Marginalisation of pastoralists from VLUP
processes
- Lack of government funds and know-how
how to address these issues
- Donor, IFAD, ILC interest in the issues and
the SRMP.

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Participatory rangeland resource mapping

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JVLUP Hectares of
shared grazing
(ha)
Members in Livestock
keepers association (LKA)
Members of LKA
OLENGAPA
(Population
apprx 6,000)
30,477 237 Male:
Male youth:
Female:
Female youth;
NAPALAI
(Population
apprx
25,854.2 101 Male:29
Male Youth: 42
Female: 10
Female Youth: 20
KIMBO 11,000 181 Male: 29
Male youth: 72
Female: 28
Female youth: 52
ALOLLE
(Population
apprx 10,500)
95,854.87 113 Male: 27
Male youth: 53
Female: 10
Female Youth 23

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Participatory rangeland management

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• Enabling policy environment – if not then need to
work in parallel to get this in place
• Importance of partnerships and multistakeholder
approach
• Flexibility of approach
• Commitment to see a process through – long term
vision
• Appropriate and adequate resources and capacities
including time
• Activities do not stop with the plan but need to be
implemented
Lessons learned

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