Media Aid for Indigenous and Pastoralist Community (MAIPAC)

About us

Media Aid for Indigenous and Pastoralist Community (MAIPAC) is an organization formed by a journalist to empower indigenous and pastoralist communities because they have suffered from historical injustices as a result of their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories, and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their rights to development in accordance with their own needs and interest.
MAIPAC recognizes the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous and pastoralist communities that derive from their economic and social structures and their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories, and philosophies especially their rights to their lands, territories, and resources.
MAIPAC is registered as a Non-Governmental Organization under the Non-Governmental Organizations Act, No. 24 of 2002 as amended from time to time. Registration: NGO/R/1485

Mission Statement
Raising awareness through the media that supports the indigenous and pastoralist communities in Tanzania and that promotes economic opportunities at the community level.

Vision Statement
To create an environment where the political, cultural, social, historical, territorial, legal, and economic rights of the indigenous and pastoralist communities are recognized, respected, and upheld by the Tanzanian government and people.

Strategic objectives
• To write and report news concerning indigenous and pastoralists community
• To work closely with the government and other stakeholders locally and internationally to supports economic rights of the indigenous and pastoralist communities.
• To establish national and international networks of indigenous people and pastoralists that promote economic opportunities at the community level.

Specicic strategic activities
• Provide training and capacity building for its members on correct and accurate reporting formats of indigenous and pastoralists communities issues
• Raising awareness through the media that supports the indigenous and pastoralists communities in Tanzania that aim in promoting economic opportunities at the community level.
• Promote gender equality in the indigenous and pastoralists communities
• Empowering women in land management and ownership as means of economic growth and sustainability
• Provide education on sustainable resource management example land and water reservation and preservation


What we do
• Water sources protection
• Monitoring, documenting and reporting the indigenous traditional knowledge of the Hadzabe and Datoga
• Producing indigenous knowledge books
• Media and information: MAIPAC disseminates information on a wide range of topics and issues of indigenous and pastoralists community relation to livelihoods and human development to the national and international strategic goals and declarations.
• Capacity building: We actively support behavior change of youth and girls in the indigenous and pastoralist community. MAIPAC builds the skills of journalists to conduct investigative research and policy analysis and share the findings in thee form of news reports and flagship thematic journals through organized workshops, meetings and exchange visits.

Mussa Juma is the Executive Director of Media Aid for Indigenous and Pastoralist Community (MAIPAC).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.