Project
Shout for Justice
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Amount Funded
205,312 EUROProject Duration
01 Apr 2022 - 31 Dec 2023 -
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Lead organisation
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PINGO’s Forum is a human rights and development Non-Governmental organization, an umbrella of about 52 member CSOs established back in 1994 and formally registered in 1996 seeking to advocate and develop competencies for sustainable Livelihoods and development of Pastoralists and hunter-gatherer communities. PINGO’s Forum endeavours to amplify the voices and foster the interest of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers by advocating for change through Advocacy on Good Governance and Human rights (social, economic, political and cultural rights); Gender justice, Capacity Building of community and its member CSOs and key stakeholders; and Networking with stakeholders with similar objectives; and also working on Climate Change and other issues that affect the livelihood sustainability of the pastoralists and hunter-gathers wherever they are in Tanzania. The Vision is a just community of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers with sustainable, recognized, and respected rights, and the Mission is to create a lasting solution for injustices and poverty in pastoralists and hunter-gatherers communities.
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Organisation
PINGO’s Forum is a human rights and development Non-Governmental organization, an umbrella of about 52 member CSOs established back in 1994 and formally registered in 1996 seeking to advocate and develop competencies for sustainable Livelihoods and development of Pastoralists and hunter-gatherer communities. PINGO’s Forum endeavours to amplify the voices and foster the interest of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers by advocating for change through Advocacy on Good Governance and Human rights (social, economic, political and cultural rights); Gender justice, Capacity Building of community and its member CSOs and key stakeholders; and Networking with stakeholders with similar objectives; and also working on Climate Change and other issues that affect the livelihood sustainability of the pastoralists and hunter-gathers wherever they are in Tanzania. The Vision is a just community of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers with sustainable, recognized, and respected rights, and the Mission is to create a lasting solution for injustices and poverty in pastoralists and hunter-gatherers communities.
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Project
The project’s idea is to increase freedom, enhance, political and civic engagement and participation of indigenous (IPs) peoples in ownership and management of their resources. It is focused in; Arusha and Manyara Regions, in 5 districts of Ngorongoro, Monduli, Longido, Simanjiro and Kiteto – which are seriously affected by natural resource-based conflicts resulting int human right violation and arbitrary government decisions. IPs in these districts who are in 30 villages who are approximately 250,000 indigenous peoples have natural resource conflicts with other land users such as investors, farmers, land speculators and are bordering adjacent protected areas such as Tarangire National Park and Mkungunero Game Reserve (Simanjiro and Kiteto)Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Ngorongoro) Longido Game Controlled Area, Enduimet WMA and Essiming or Forest Reserve, (Monduli and Longido). IPs are not engaged in resolving these conflicts.
The project intends to increase community pressure to politicians by influencing people-driven advocacy on natural resources and open political engagement, accountability and administration of justiceby providing avenue to shout for their justice. The project will engage CSOs, Media, MPs, Local Government Authorities, Ministries, Traditional Leaders, Indigenous Women, Youth, Development Partners, and the Judiciary.
Main objective: Indigenous peoples are able to demand their land and human rights, influence decision making, and engage in policy reforms for accountability and adherence to the rule of law.
Among the activities that will be implemented include to facilitate IPs to meet, identify and develop their positions and recommendations on policy and human rights, Convene dialogues between indigenous peoples and policymakers on different laws that improve political and friendly legal framework, Link indigenous peoples with MPs to present and discuss different recommendations, policies and violations of human rights, Support IPs attend different parliamentary committee meetings on land, natural resource and environment to defend, report and influence policies to be tabled to the parliament, Conduct CSOs workshop to seek support and amplify the voice of IPs on human right and land related issues, Promote community dialogue, information sharing and reporting of human rights violations through mass media and social media campaigns, Support the community link with media to expose violations of human rights by state organs through fact finding, Publish and disseminate information on violation of human rights and rule of law, Facilitate the community to engage with different platforms of human rights and the rule of law, Produce and air special TV and Radio programs on violation of human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples and Mobilize the community to use social media for human rights and Conduct digital security training to IPs HRDs
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The project’s idea is to increase freedom, enhance, political and civic engagement and participation of indigenous (IPs) peoples in ownership and management of their resources. It is focused in; Arusha and Manyara Regions, in 5 districts of Ngorongoro, Monduli, Longido, Simanjiro and Kiteto – which are seriously affected by natural resource-based conflicts resulting int human right violation and arbitrary government decisions. IPs in these districts who are in 30 villages who are approximately 250,000 indigenous peoples have natural resource conflicts with other land users such as investors, farmers, land speculators and are bordering adjacent protected areas such as Tarangire National Park and Mkungunero Game Reserve (Simanjiro and Kiteto)Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Ngorongoro) Longido Game Controlled Area, Enduimet WMA and Essiming or Forest Reserve, (Monduli and Longido). IPs are not engaged in resolving these conflicts.
The project intends to increase community pressure to politicians by influencing people-driven advocacy on natural resources and open political engagement, accountability and administration of justiceby providing avenue to shout for their justice. The project will engage CSOs, Media, MPs, Local Government Authorities, Ministries, Traditional Leaders, Indigenous Women, Youth, Development Partners, and the Judiciary.
Main objective: Indigenous peoples are able to demand their land and human rights, influence decision making, and engage in policy reforms for accountability and adherence to the rule of law.
Among the activities that will be implemented include to facilitate IPs to meet, identify and develop their positions and recommendations on policy and human rights, Convene dialogues between indigenous peoples and policymakers on different laws that improve political and friendly legal framework, Link indigenous peoples with MPs to present and discuss different recommendations, policies and violations of human rights, Support IPs attend different parliamentary committee meetings on land, natural resource and environment to defend, report and influence policies to be tabled to the parliament, Conduct CSOs workshop to seek support and amplify the voice of IPs on human right and land related issues, Promote community dialogue, information sharing and reporting of human rights violations through mass media and social media campaigns, Support the community link with media to expose violations of human rights by state organs through fact finding, Publish and disseminate information on violation of human rights and rule of law, Facilitate the community to engage with different platforms of human rights and the rule of law, Produce and air special TV and Radio programs on violation of human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples and Mobilize the community to use social media for human rights and Conduct digital security training to IPs HRDs
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The major advocacy outcome of this project was a statement issued by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania on January 15, 2019, acknowledging the long-time suffering of pastoralists being evicted from their lands. He highlighted that the seven responsible ministries must work together to find solutions on land conflicts affecting pastoralists in the country. Additionally, the President agreed to meet with marginalized pastoralists that year.
This has changed the behaviours and perception of the public and duty bearers at local government levels regarding the rights of marginalized pastoralists.
The project created understanding and awareness of the pastoralists groups on land and human rights issues. Now each community has some leaders that whenever an issue emerges are ready to meet and talk to duty bearers and members of parliament. Communities are also aware of their rights and they can now confidently talk to the media and address the public. They know how to document and report issues – for instance in the case of Vilima vitatu when their homesteads were burnt. They recorded and uploaded the clips on social media.
During the project implementation Pingo facilitated dialogues between community representatives and policymakers on issues affecting them which led to the following:
- The statement of the President that halted all plans to evict pastoralists from their lands and ordered that wildlife conservation areas laws reviewed within a month and the proposed bill to be tabled in the next Parliamentary budget session.
- The District Commissioner of Hai stopped all acts done by KADCO that violate community rights and promised to institute a commission to investigate the matter, while the permanent secretary promised to inform the minister on the matter for further actions.
- The parliament resolved in unison that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism must halt the arbitrary boundary beacons planting in villages with immediate effect. It also resolved against the confiscation of livestock, unlawful fines and killing livestock.
The proposed New Wildlife Conservation Bill 2017 was struck out at the Committee level disallowing a second reading of the Bill in parliament. This is a result of Pingos engagement who linked communities with policymakers who made presentations of facts and on existing gaps in the proposed bill. The outcome being policies/laws that are pro- pastoralists (marginalized group)
- The statement of the President that halted all plans to evict pastoralists from their lands and ordered that wildlife conservation areas laws reviewed within a month and the proposed bill to be tabled in the next Parliamentary budget session.