Pilido Program

PILIDO’s work focuses primarily in the area of rights to security of land tenure and natural resources, enhancing resilience and adaptation to climate change, livestock transformation and revitalizing rangelands as well as pastoral indigenous systems. The work further addresses women empowerment and gender equality, household food security, research into use (RIU) and capacity building for both local communities and PILIDO staff.

Tanzania is well endowed with natural resources. It has vast lands, lakes, rivers, mountains, scenic areas full of wildlife, huge oil and gas reserves, mineral deposits, wetlands and rich wide range of forests and rangelands. 

One of the core strategic programmes consistently implemented by PILIDO is the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Programme. This Programme, originally named Light For Women (LFW) 

Tanzania is well endowed with livestock resources; it is the second country in Africa  having the largest number of livestock after Ethiopia. Tanzania assumed this second position after Sudan 

HIV/AIDS remains a major public health concern in Tanzania and in other southern African countries, it is a major threat facing various segments of the human population and it widely threatening human lives, 

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