The slides describes efforts of one project called Tanzania Traditional Irrigation Improvement Programme (TIP) in a village called Hamboye in Lushoto District north eastern Tanzania

1. INTRODUCTION TO TIP AND
HAMBOYE VILLAGE
BEATRICE SHEMDOE AND JUMA WICKAMA
2007

2. CONTACT
 The authors can be contacted through
nkanwa2003@yahoo.com
wickama@yahoo.com

3. INTRODUCTION OF TIP:
 TIP is Traditional Irrigation and Environmental
Development Organization, which started its operation
on August 1, 1999.
 The basis for this new NGO was formed during the past
10years since 1988 when TIP was launched as a
Traditional Irrigation Improvement Programme under the
Netherlands Development Organization SNV.
 During these years TIP worked through the district
councils of seven districts, i.e Kilosa, Mpwapwa, Iringa,
Arumeru, Mwanga, Same and Lushoto as a strategy to
reach farmers in Traditional Irrigated areas. During the
third phase of the programme (phase 3 1997-2000) it
was decided to institutionalize the TIP programme into
an NGO in order to assure the continuation of the TIP
activities for years to come.

4. OBJECTIVIVE:
 Is to effectively contribute to the
 socio-economic development of men and
women living in selected traditional irrigation
area in the context of sustainable agriculture
and natural resource management.

5. TIP PACKAGE:
 TIP package consists of four main
components.
 Organisational strengthening and gender.
 Soil and water conservation.
 Tradition irrigation.
 Marketing.

6. TIP APPROACH:
 In the implementation of the above four activities TIP
uses the following stepwise approach.
 Request; request for assistance formulation by water
users.
 Introduction; Knowing each other (TIP vs farmers).
 Intake evaluation / PRA; Situation analysis as well as
study the background of the request.
 Agreement; Define and agree upon constitution and
participation of involved parties.
 Implementation; Implementation of the agreement.
 Conclusion; Evaluation of the achievements.
 Follow-up; Follow up depending upon the conclusion.
(filling gaps).

7. ACHIEVEMENTS:
 80 WUGS (with 20000 water users) have been assisted.
 2000 ha of irrigated land has been conserved with bench
terraces, cut off drains, tree planting.
 13 dams constructed.
 14 intakes constructed.
 3 domestic water structures
 1 cattle trough constructed.
 4 water drops constructed
 2 gully crossing structures constructed.
 1 low pressure sprinkler installed
 Registration of 7 WUGS
 Gender awareness training – 80 WUGS

8.  Leadership training – 75 WUGS
 Communication – 80 WUGS
 Legal rights – 30 WUGS
 HIV/AIDS training – 80 WUGS.
 Book keeping – 60 WUGS
 Record keeping 50 WUGS
 Saving and credit – 40 WUGS
 Business awareness – 10 WUGS
 200 village technicians trained.
 Tree nursery establishment and management – 70
WUGS
 Irrigation water management training – 50 WUGS
 Water rights – 1 WUG

9. HAMBOYE VILLAGE
 Hamboye village it’s a new village recently started in
2005 which formerly was in Manolo village
 The village is located at 414000 East to 416000 East and
9488000 North. The size of the village is 5000 ha
cultivated area is 4900ha where by 100ha is not
cultivated, with the population of 4114 (2202 women
1912 men and with 932 households.
 The major tribe is Wambaa with few Wapare. Majority of
them are Muslims. There are 4 hamlets in the village
which are Tetei, Dule, Kwemazumba and Hamboye.

10.  Major crops grown are tomatoes, sweet paper,
cabbage, beans maize, what, Irish potatoes as
well as peas fruits. The major livelihood activities
are agriculture and livestock keeping. Major
problems facing these people at this village are
insufficiency of domestic water, accessibility of
the road during rain seasons, flooding of the
valley bottom during rain season cultivation
around the water sources, difficulties of
organization of farmers since it’s a new village,
insufficiency of primary classrooms.

11. Historical perspective of Hamboye
 TIP started to work at the village in 2001 at one of the
hamlets known as Dule. It was through farmers’ request
which was sent to the TIP office in 1996. Activities
carried by the TIP package was explained to the
farmers, PRA exercise was conducted, Implementation
of the package took place.
 Problems gathered during PRA exercise were:-
 Insufficient of water for irrigation as well as insufficient of
domestic water
 Low crop yield.
 Shortage of fuel wood
 Shortage of fodder
 Increase of population
 Workloads to women

12.  These problems were solved through TIP
package where by various trainings were
conducted i.e. gender awareness training,
leadership, communication, farmers excursion,
HIV/AIDS training business awareness, legal
rights training, village technicians training in soil
and water conservation, tree nursery
establishment and management.

13.  Also one irrigation dam and one domestic
structure have been constructed. The group has
113 water users where by 67 are women and 66
are men. There is a water use r committee with
10 people 5 men and 5 female.
 The irrigation area is 30 ha where by 20 ha have
being conserved by bench terraces, cutoff drains
and trees. Trees planted are 3962 (cedrella (60),
Grevillea (282) casuarinas (160). Acrocarpus
(80), eucalyptus (508), Cyprus (2818).

14.  Lessons leant:
 the group was very positive in adopting TIP
package
 Approach used was participatory one since
farmers knows exactly what their roles are and
what the roles are.
 Cultivation around the water source was a very
difficult issue to solve
 Reluctance of to other farmer who ware not
among the irrigators to carry out physical soil
conservation measures
 Suring rain seasons the road is silted up by the
loose soils which come from the steep slopes
which are not conserved.

15. Problems encountered by TIP:
 Too much request that the organization can handle
 Existing traditions and customs especially issues of
involvement of women in development activities.
 Farmers have other burning issues which the
organization cannot handle e.g. domestic water
 Farmers being assisted by the NGO the crop
production has increased and hence raised a
problem of marketing

16. TIP relationship with other district
departments:
 The Implementation of TIP package, TIP
does cooperate with other departments like
community development, agriculture
department, forestry department cooperative
department and water and land department.

17. Recommendations:
 Since Tip is working at a very small area i.e.
in one hamlet its not easier to reach the
whole village as far as the issue of
environmental conservation is concerned, so
its high time now for the village government
to implement this bylaws so the Hamboye soil
could be saved.