Impact and Lessons from the CARE-WWF Alliance
Project in Nachingwea District, Tanzania
Nachingwea, a district in the uniquely
biodiverse Ruvuma landscape, is one of Tanzania’s poorest regions. Its
communities rely largely on subsistence
farming and are increasingly subject
to the impacts of climate change, such
as erratic rainfall resulting in droughts
and floods.
Women are especially vulnerable to
these events due to the gender roles and socioeconomic marginalization that reduce their access to information,
resources, and decision-making power—
and thus, their ability to contribute to
climate change resilience.
This brief presents key impacts and
lessons drawn from various monitoring,
evaluation, and learning methods
implemented through the project. After
a mixed-methods baseline quantitative
household survey of 30 clusters
randomly selected from 126 villages,
including all six project villages, an
independent endline survey evaluated
households from three project villages
regarding changes in natural resource
management agricultural practices, and
their well-being, among other things.
