From 2016 to 2020, MJUMITA partnered with WWF Tanzania and others to conserve the Ruvuma Landscape—an ecologically vital forest corridor. The project supported land-use planning, secured community forest tenure, and improved Village Land Forest Reserves governance. It promoted sustainable agriculture and forest restoration and linked communities to payment for ecosystem services schemes. Through advocacy and local capacity building, the initiative helped reduce deforestation, increase income opportunities, and improve cross-village collaboration. The Ruvuma Landscape Project demonstrated that community-led conservation at the landscape scale can simultaneously advance biodiversity, climate mitigation, and rural development.
