Project name: Evaluation of women's food security program for impoverished Maasai households (Trias)
Institutions: Savannahs Forever and University of Minnesota
Country: Tanzania
Description: The objective of this project is to improve food security among semi-pastoralist communities through more diversified and secured income from improvements in livestock.
![Source: Bart Casier/TRIAS](http://gaap.ifpri.info/files/2016/10/Source-Bart-Casier-TRIAS-300x225.jpg)
Source: Bart Casier/Trias
The components of the project include:
- Formation of savings and credit groups
- Entrepreneurship training
- Marketing of livestock and livestock products
- Gender awareness training
- Increased women’s asset ownership through female-only bomas (farms)
- Capacity building of pastoralist, member-based organizations
- Improvement of the business environment
Project goal