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Orkonerei Ilaramatak Lo-Orkonerei-Institute is an Indigenous Pastoralists Organization based in Arusha, Manyara and Kilimanjaro regions in Northern Tanzania
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IOPA is a hybrid social organization that operates in Northern Tanzania to facilitate, direct and shape the social and economic transition of pastoral peoples from subsistence economy to a long term sustainable economy. Focus: Agriculture, Economic Development Geographic Area of Impact: Tanzania Model: Leveraged Non-Profit
Number of Direct Beneficiaries: 46,789 (2013) Annual Budget: USD $ 1 millio

n (2013) Percentage Earned Revenue: 15% (2013)


Background
Covering much of northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, the Maasai people live in villages of 180 or 260 families totalling between 850,000 and 1,240,000 people. Most of them lack access to formal schooling, healthcare, and other basic services. The majority are pastoralists - they herd goats and cattle. Like some other tribal groups in East Africa and many around the world, the Maasai are seen and treated by many of their non-Maasai neighbours as less than human or as primitive societies. Their perceived primitivism has exposed them to oppressive actions on the parts of governments and religious groups that have tried both to force settlement and force the adoption of Western values and beliefs. Innovation and Activities
To address the need for internal coordination and communication and at the same time gain credibility with non-Maasai actors (including both the governments of Tanzania and Kenya and various international rights groups) IOPA has engaged Maasai Communities in a comprehensive social, political and economic empowerment program that improves and builds sustainable and quality livelihoods for the Maasai people of Tanzania. IOPA facilitates transformation and diversification of the economic system of the Maasai through social business, social entrepreneurship and innovation - through radio programs, roundtable discussion, and festivals, the Institute prepares a fertile ground for self-examination and collective action. On the economic side, it also helps villages both diversify the pastoral economics base and meet their needs in existing local market needs. Livestock production, sector development and natural resources management are fundamental to this economic empowerment of the Maasai people. IOPA has established a social businesses around each component of the Masai production value chain, creating wealth and reducing poverty in these pastoral rural communities. The Institute also teaches the Maasai veterinary services and techniques and sensitizes them about the use of both modern and traditional veterinary medicine. This has led to the creation of four veterinary suppliers and three Veterinary Diagnostic/Investigative centres in pastoralist areas. As a result of these vaccination campaigns, pastoralists have begun to use modern treatments and methods of livestock management, allowing animals to live healthier, longer, more productive lives. As a result they will produce more milk and meat products both for local consumption and for the markets, that will enable the Maasai households to stabilize and grow economically therefore reducing poverty amongst these pastoral communities. The Entrepreneur
Martin Kariongi Ole Sanago was born and raised in Maasai Steppes/plains of northern Tanzania. Martin has extensive experience in establishing grassroots organizations alongside pioneering social entrepreneurship and community business ventures for the Maasai people’s economic empowerment. He was nominated as an Ashoka Fellow and in 2006 he was awarded the Quality World Wide Community Award by Columbia University. Ilaramatak Lo-Orkonerei-Institute is an Indigenous Peoples (Pastoralists) Organization based in Arusha, Manyara and Kilimanjaro regions in Northern Tanzania.IOPA operates within the Pastoral lands of northern regions of Tanzania (Arusha, Kilimanjaro and Manyara) as an Hybrid Social Organization with both social programming and social business programmes and activities that was established in December 1991 and legally registered with the government of Tanzania in February 1993 with the ministry of Home Affairs of the United Republic Tanzania and Re-registered in 2004 with the registrar of companies (cap; 212) as a Company limited by Guarantees. IOPA is a membership Pastoralists Organization/society with over one thousand and eighty members (1084) pastoral men and Women and working with about 126 self-help community groups, which are affiliated and identified themselves with IOPA. It was purposely established to promote and advance the existence of dry land pastoralism as well as enhancement of the Maasai pastoralist culture, identity and dignity as well as a right to self-determination for the Maasai Indigenous Peoples. IOPA main Goal was established originally and purposely to facilitate, direct, shape and promote the social and economic transformation of Pastoral peoples from subsistence economy to a long-term sustainable economy in accordance to new directions and alternatives in the 21st Century. The purpose of the IOPA is to facilitate and brings about positive Social, Economic and cultural transformation of Maasai people (pastoralist) from a present weak and undesirable situation to a bright, sustainable and long lasting advanced future in the 21st Century of the new millennium. Core Values/Purpose of IOPA
Social-Political & Economic (Unleash/Unlock the economic strategic potentials of the Maasai people in livestock and Natural Resources) empowerment of the Maasai Communities. Social entrepreneurship & Innovations. Environmental Conservancy.

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12785Arusha Tanzania
Arusha
12785

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IOPA strategic objectives include; (i) develop information and communication technological systems, that is accessible for advocacy, educational and community organizing and development, (ii) promote national awareness of pastoralism and initiate projects towards the diversification of pastoral economic systems, (iii) lobby government policies that support pastoral communities to transform their economic systems and livelihoods, (iv) establish integrated programs that address gender and organizational processes that facilitate equal gender relations; v)Advance the course of pastoral education & Child rights and development. Institute Programs & Activities: A. Pastoralists Livestock Sector Development: Livestock keeping is an activity in which pastoralists in target areas are most knowledgeable and they are skilled in it. It is further an economic activity, which is ecologically viable and socially restores the status of the destitute. 1. Enhanced local breed through crossbreeding. - Establishing small ranches for Improved Bulls. The aim of establishing small ranches for improved bulls is to improve the local breeds so as to increase the quality and quantity of livestock and its products. The project has bought the bulls for each ward administration and the community responsible will choose a place suitable for such small ranches to accommodate the bulls in the selected village in each ward. The para-vets in such villages has the responsibility of ensuring feeds and fodder. The employed Herdsmen properly administer medication. One bull is expected to serve 25 heifers per annum and therefore 100 heifers would have been served annually in each district. Anybody in the village with the heifer on heat and who need the service must contribute a small amount that will be agreed by villagers in order to help maintaining the bulls. After the period of five years, the bulls’ centers project will be handled over to the pastoral communities through their wards livestock supervisory committees. It is very important for the community to introduce improved bull into their herds because a big part of their indigenous breed cattle (Zebu) have a low level of production. These breeds have low genetic potential and therefore of low productivity. However they are very hard and resistant to various environmental factors such as diseases. If crossed with improved or exotic breads, it offspring inherits some of the important characteristics which will allow it to survive different kinds of climatically charges. 2. Animal health’s and Production improved and sustained. -Rehabilitation and construction of livestock facilities. As livestock is the lifeline of the livelihoods of the residents of Loongiito, Same and Simanjiro Districts investment in the sector is a felt need of the people. It is expected that rehabilitation of existing and building few new livestock service facilities in the target areas will improve and reduce disease incidences, reduce livestock losses, improve animal health and increase productivity. All these will in turn enhance food security; reduce levels of vulnerability and poverty among pastoralists. Such gains will contribute towards enhancing security of livelihoods for the pastoral communities in the target areas. Pastoralists from the three districts are ready to contribute anything available towards a good cost sharing spirit in running these livestock facilities. - Rehabilitation/construction of Veterinary Centers. It is proposed to rehabilitate existing veterinary centers in the target areas and build a new one in Orkesumet village. These centers serve as sources for supplying veterinary medicines and provide timely information especially when reporting outbreaks of certain diseases, which need prompt attention. These veterinary centers will serve a total of over 100,000 livestock on yearly basis. The Institute will use these centers to conduct trainings to various stakeholders like pastoralists, farmers and others. 3. Maasai Diary enterprises Initiative. IOPA through Maasai Enterprise Dairy Initiatives (MEDI) is implementing a 5 years project in the Maasai districts namely; Simanjiro, Same and Loongiito respectively. The IOPA through MEDI aim to stimulate the transformation of the Maasai community dairy production. This project will incorporate a complex set of activities that break down barriers to development, as identified in the preceding needs of the Maasai people. IOPA through MEDI and other key partners will implement the project focusing 6 components; marketing & promotion, processing & technical training/support, dairy production, milk collection & handling, and policy reform & advocacy. Zero grazing will serve as respond to inadequate milk for IOPA and OMASI milk processing units in Simanjiro, Same and Loongiito. The project will also serve as mechanism for milk production throughout a year and as an economic means for local women and men in pastoral communities.

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