Lareto Co-operative Society is a Tanzanian non-profit Community-Based Organisation (CBO) formed in 2015 with the objective of facilitating community development initiatives through capacity strengthening and awareness creation in all sectors of development.

It currently operates in Monduli district, Lemooti and Mswakini wards and with all the villages within the wards. The CBO was formed after realising that the pastoral community especially in Monduli district were lagging behind in all aspects of development when compared to other ethnic groups in Tanzania as well as in this modern world. The Cooperative is supporting communities for social business, renewable energy and entrepreneurship groups for development projects within the pastoral community.

Women’s Rights to Land For Economic Empowerment is about ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for productive resources, employment and land in particular. This project, among other things, supports the organisation:

• To identify differences among women and men as to accessing land in Tanzania under the customary land tenure system,
• To identify the contributions of on-going land reforms in increasing women’s access to land in their respective areas (villages),
• To assess the constraints and opportunities affecting access to land by women economically and socially and
• To assess the influence of religion and intermarriage on women’s access to land for economics earning as well as to identify and form women’s mechanisms/groups to protect women against any possible loss of their access rights.

This project is part of an Empowerment Accelerator pilot grant. These grants are for previous Empowerment grantees that would like to deepen and/or continue their empowerment journey. Lareto Co-operative Society has also implemented https://voice.global/grantees/contributing-to-gender-equality/