In preparation for the Result Oriented Monitoring (ROM) mission to Tanzania the European Union (EU) Tanzania had a technical visit to project sites in Kiteto to assess the progress of Participatory Rangelands Management Project (PRM) implementation. The visit took place from 10^th - 12^th February, 2020. The technical team comprised of focal persons from EU, Manyara Regional Secretariat, National Land Use Planning Commission, Kiteto District Council, KINNAPA and TNRF.

The EU focal person, the technical Advisor Dr. Mathew Mpanda first had a discussion with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development in Dodoma to understand the support and collaboration between the project and the Ministry for purposes of sustainability and to inform national policy processes. Thereafter the team visited two clusters of OLENGAPA and NAPALAI whereas they had an opportunity to meet community members and saw ongoing activities in these two clusters.

Issues highlighted during the technical visit:

• EU technical advisor appreciated the work done so far is confident that the project will achieve its intended results within the time frame.
• PRM project need to build synergies with other EU funded projects in northern Zone like Oikos project on women empowerment
• For sustainability, the project should continue working communities, local government, national government and other partners to ensure best practices are shared accordingly as part of knowledge management.
• The project needs to invest in print and TV/Radio communication to share the progress and success of the project. This can also act as a fundraising tool for PRM up scaling.
• Rolling out of Community Investment Funds should be fast racked for the project to have time to monitor the progress and success
  

Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) and partners under the technical guidance from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and National Land Use Planning (NLUP) Commission (Tz) carried out ecological survey from 5^th - 15^th Feb, 2020 to collect data for purposes of feeding into the Management Plans for all the four shared grazing areas / clusters.

In each cluster (KIMBO, OLENGAPA, NAPALAI and ALLOLE), with support from the community members, sampling points were identified which will also act as monitoring sites for the rangeland investments projects to be rolled out after management plans.

Management plans as per the Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) process in our local context, precedes rolling out of the Community Investment Funds and its development must take into consideration the current ecological status of grazing areas, proposed investments activities, simple monitoring strategies among others.

This activity was done in all the 15 villages as follows:

• OLENGAPA: Ngapapa, Enganguangare, Orkitikit and Lerug
• NAPALAI: Partimbo, Ilera, Laala and Namelock
• ALLOLE: Amei, Lembapuli, Lesoit and Lolera
• KIMBO: Kimana, Mbigiri and Orpopong
  

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