Better lives through livestock
Planning across borders for improved rangeland management:
the case of JVLUP in Tanzania
Obed Katonge
Charles Mkalawa
National Land Use Commission, United Republic of Tanzania
IGAD High-Level Regional Conference on Land and Conflict,
Kampala, 24 – 27 October 2022

The concept of Joint Village Land Use Planning and Management
►Joint Village land use plans (JVLUP) can be developed between two or more villages
particularly where sharing of resources across the villages is substantial.
►Joint village land use planning provides an opportunity for formalizing and protecting the
sharing of resources across village boundaries.
►Section 11 of the Village Land Act No. 5 of 1999 and Regulations 26-35 of the Village Land
Act Regulations of 2002 empowers the village council to enter into a joint village land use
agreement with other villages.
► The Land Use Planning Act No. 6 of 2007 section 18 provides for the formation of the joint
village land use planning authority and in section 33 (1) (b) provides for preparation of the
joint resource management sector plan where resources are shared between villages
►The JVLUP approach has been used in the rangelands since 2014 under the Sustainable
Rangeland Management Project in Kiteto district where the process has made it
possible to formalize sharing arrangements of grazing land, water sources, livestock routes
and salt licks across the village boundaries of Orkitikiti, Lerug, Enguangare, and Ngapapa
villages popularly known as OLENGAPA.

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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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