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Building for the future

Posted by Isla Gilmore | in Concern Blog | 21 February 2011 | 0 comments
Simon Rubamba, secretary of land tribunal in Nkundutsi village. Photo: Concern

In Tanzania, very few people own land. This is a problem, as 80% of the country relies on the land to make a living. Concern Worldwide is working to change this.

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>> Human rights policy

21 July 2010
Human rights policy

"A Rights-Based Approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action."

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Human rights in Tanzania

Posted by Isla Gilmore | in Concern Blog | 14 April 2010 | 2 comments
Stanfford Mwakyusa

For the last five years, Concern Tanzania has been implementing a programme focusing on food and land rights. And I recently discovered that not only the poor communities are benefitting.

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Changing attitudes in rural Tanzania

Posted by Isla Gilmore | in Concern Blog | 29 October 2009 | 2 comments
Women look at the list of female candidates for the local council elections

I meet a woman in one of the poorest villages in Tanzania. Her name is Fatuma Ismail. She is the same age as me, 30, and has five children. She is a widow with nobody to turn to for support.

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Concern in Europe

Concern in Europe

Concern believes Europe can and should be a world leader in overseas development and humanitarian assistance.  

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