RIGHT TO EDUCATION

Education is a fundamental human right that ensures every child has access to free, quality, and compulsory education without discrimination.

ECONOMIC RESILIENCE

CORDS provides pastoralist communities with the ability to adapt to economic challenges, sustain their livelihoods, and recover from financial shocks while maintaining stability and growth.

ENVAIRONMENT & CLIMATE

CORDS promotes environmental protection and climate awareness by educating pastoralist communities and providing them with sustainable alternatives to adapt to climate change.

GENDER AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

CORDS promotes equality and empowerment by supporting women and youth, providing education, skills, and opportunities that enable active participation in community development and sustainable livelihoods.

CORDS

Community Research and development Services

Working for sustainable livlihood

CORDS was registered in 1998 as an NGO under the Trustees Incorporation Ordinance (Cap 375). CORDS Emerged out of a research project carried out in 1997, of which, its research covered the four traditional Maasai pastoralist districts of Kiteto, Monduli, Longido, and Simanjiro in Northern Tanzania. The project, titled Pastoralist Research and Development Project (PARDEP) resulted in the need to establish a permanent body mandated to address development needs of the pastoral communities in Northern Tanzania.

Our Programs

Education, Learning and Vocational Training

Enhanced education access and retention for pastoral girls, youth, and women.

Land Governance

Strengthening pastoralist land rights and governance through inclusive policy development.

Gender and livelihood

Advancing gender equity, inclusion, economic empowerment and health to strengthen women’s livelihoods.

environment and climate

Enhancing community resilience through strong environmental management and climate adaptation initiatives.

Working for Sustainable Livelihood

CORDS promotes sustainable livelihoods by empowering pastoral communities through education, vocational skills, economic initiatives, and inclusive development strategies

A Helping Hand for Sustainable Community Development.

Through close collaboration with communities, CORDS implements inclusive, sustainable initiatives that improve livelihoods, strengthen resilience, and empower people to drive their own development.

Our work & Campaigns

Our campaigns brings together pastoral communities, resources and actions to create lasting changes across education, economic growth and resilience, environment development and climate change awareness.

Dignity Rising

A sanitary pad incinerator at Longido Primary School ended period shame, keeping girls in class. Students now learn with confidence in a cleaner environment. 'No more stress I can focus on studies,' says one girl.

Seeds of Change

In Tanzania's drought-stricken Maasai region, a simple school garden is feeding 752 students, reducing absenteeism by 40%, and teaching climate-resilient farming proving small seeds can yield big change.

Investing in Change

For Tanzania’s Maasai communities, small-scale investments in infrastructure and microloans are rewriting the story of survival one family at a time.