- Who are we?
Mazingira Plus
Connecting with nature is our slogan, the reason why we advocate for it, is that we are living in a world where the ecosystem’s divide is escalating. So, People with good nature connectedness can generate many positive emotions, such as calmness, joy, and creativity, and can facilitate concentration. Nature connectedness is also associated with lower levels of poor mental health, particularly lower depression, and anxiety.
Awards
Awarded Certificate of Recognition from Temeke Municipality in 2022
Networking
Participated in DAKA Exchange Program between Hamburg and Dar es Salaam cities
Mazingira is a Swahili word that means Environment. Mazingira Plus is a non-governmental organization that was founded in 2019 as a community-based organization (CBO) operating in the Dar es Salaam region. On May 11, 2022, it was updated and registered as a non-governmental organization under NGO Act No.24 of 2002 operating on the Tanzanian mainland under the Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Women, and Special Groups. The organization envisions having a nation that is a clean, healthy, and well-conserved environment.
Vision statement
The organization envisions having a nation that is a clean, healthy, and well-conserved environment
Mission Statement
To be a leading organization in Tanzania by realizing and humanizing waste pickers, youth, and women in waste management systems and environmental conservations.
Numbers Don't lie - We Connect with Nature!
Organization Objectives
- To promote environmental education, conservation, and concern for women and communities.
- To advocate for waste pickers’ humanization and gender inclusivity
- To advocate for waste diversion, transformations, and zero-waste options
- To advocate for climate actions and environmental justice
- To advocate for environmental pollution of urban rivers and water bodies
- To Advocate for public and environmental health
Key Community Partners
- Central & Local Governments
- Community based organizations
- Private Sector
- Communities
What do we offer?
Recycling makes the best use of waste, conserving valuable resources, such as water, land, and raw material. Recycling saves energy, helps keep materials out of landfills and incinerators, and provides raw materials for the production of new products. When waste cannot be prevented, recycling is the next best option.
Community engagement (also referred to as civic engagement) is the “collaboration (among) institutions or organizations and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
A baseline survey is a study that is done at the beginning of a project to collect information on the status of a subject before any type of intervention can affect it. An endline survey, on the other hand, is the study conducted after the end of that intervention. Mazingira plus can help your orgainsation collect data about the situation in the community you want to work in before your project starts.
Our Affiliation and Networks
TARA
We are among the founding members of the major national association of recyclers in Tanzania, that is Tanzania Recyclers Association - TARA. This association inspires people to advicate for a clean enviroment in Tanzania. They envision to coordinate and advocate on behalf of commercial and industrial waste management and recycling businesses operating in the United Republic of Tanzania, in an effort to realize and promote environmental resilience, decent jobs and economic growth.
Break Free from Plastic
Mazingira Plus is a proud member of #BreakFreeFromPlastic is the global movement working to achieve a future free from plastic pollution. More than 12,000 organizations and individuals around the world have come together to demand reductions in single-use plastics and to advocate for lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. BFFP members work together to bring about systemic change by tackling plastic pollution across the whole value chain - from extraction to disposal - focusing on prevention rather than cure.
Global Partnership on Plastic Pollution and Marine Litter (GPML)
Mazingira Plus is a proud member of the Global Partnership on Plastic Pollution and Marine Litter (GPML). The GPML is a multi-stakeholder partnership that brings together all actors working to prevent marine litter and plastic pollution. By providing unique global platform to share knowledge and experience, partners are able to work together to create and advance solutions to this pressing global issue.
Agencia Ambiental Pick-Upau
Mazingira Plus joined the regional movement created by the Pick-upau Environmental Agency to mitigate the consequences of the production, consumption, and disposal of single-use plastics.
African Circular Economy Network (ACEN)
We are a member of the African Circular Economy Network (ACEN). The vision of the African Circular Economy Network (ACEN) is to build a restorative African economy that generates well-being and prosperity, inclusive of all its people, through new forms of economic production and consumption which maintain and regenerate its environmental resources.
Mazingira Plus SDG’s 2030
Mazingira Plus’s objectives and interventions contribute to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals through the following goals and targets by 2030.
SDG 1
SDG 6
SDG 7
SDG 8
SDG 11
SDG 12
SDG 13
SDG 14
SDG 15
SDG 17
Our Impacts
Our Amazing Partners
We partner with a diverse range of stakeholders, governments, international governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector dedicated to "Connect with Nature". We believe long-term, impactful partnerships are central to achieving our mission. Therefore, we work with and alongside others to shape the world for difference — so every individual can thrive.
