Our projects

Integrated actions to increase resilience to climate change

In Metuge and Mieze municipalities live around 60.000 people – 42% of whom younger than 15 years old – mostly devoted to corn, cassava, sorghum, rice, beans and tomatoes production, with no mechanical means and implementing inadequate techniques. Junk food spreading and consumption contributes to the loss of culinary traditions and damages not only people's […]

‘Kisima’ in Swahili means ‘source’ and contains the names of the territories where our work is focused: Kiteto and Simanjiro, in the Manyara Region. Here the services related to water supply are limited, because the institutional support is weak, the management committees (CBWSO) have rather scarce capacities and the operating and maintenance costs are high. […]

Pastoral communities on the front lines of climate change

Together beyond borders: protecting frontier territories

The name Makilenga carries a story of participation: it comes from the initials of the most important rural areas which, through the support of Istituto Oikos and the Meru District, were involved in a participation process that led to the creation of 24 village committees for water management, elected by 54 sub-villages. These 24 committees […]

Emancipation and women's rights: a future for Tanzania

A climate resilient model for Maasai steppe pastoralists

Realising fruit gardens in 18 schools within the Arumeru District, in Northern Tanzania, means that we can guarantee a healthy and balanced diet for 8,600 children that, due to the lack of nutrient food, suffer from malnutrition and other disorders as a consequence of a diet poor in proteins, sugars and micro-nutrients. The body suffers […]

We have been working with the community of Ngarenanyuki and Oldonyo Sambu Districts for four years in order to ensure access to renewable energy, creating commercial activities and parallel services. Starting from training: together with the staff in charge of energy policies in the two Districts, after specific training courses,  we created two Committees who […]

In the Maasai Steppe in Northern Tanzania, being a woman is a challenge. It means quitting school to take care of their houses, first of all gathering wood and water, more times a day, often walking many kilometers from where they live. It means being victim of abuse and oppression. It means having no job, […]

In the Arusha Region more than 100 Secondary Schools have no access to electricity services. Classes and dormitories have no illumination and students use kerosene lamps which are harmful to their health and dangerous due to fire risk. There is no electricity for external lights, that makes it easier for felons and thieves to break […]