Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management Officer

The Tuungane Project is a joint partnership involving The Nature Conservancy, Pathfinder International and Frankfurt Zoological Society. The geographic area of the project captures the Greater Mahale Ecosystem (GME) in Western Tanzania and its freshwater counterpart—the shores and waters of Lake Tanganyika. The GME is a 4.8million-acre landscape that is home to approximately 93 per-cents of Tanzania’s 2,800 endangered chimpanzees.

The local communities live close to the land with their livelihoods derived from the area’s rich natural resources.  The thematic scope of the project is the integration of population health and environment (PHE) solutions in selected villages. The Project uses an integrated grassroots community approach to empower the local people to sustainably manage their own natural resources through village land-use planning, co-operative fisheries management and micro-finance programs as well as improving access to primary and reproductive health.