1.1    SECCA is an acronym a Sustainable for Environmental & Climate Change Association, in March 2012 was officially registered as a Non-Governmental Organization in Tanzania with Regstration No. 00NGO/00005360. It was initiated by the people at the local level through people’s participation in Arusha City;

SECCA operates Mbeya as its HQ and branch office in Mwanza and liaison layer office in Dar es salaam, Aim to mitigate the effects caused by climate change in Tanzania, and other areas such areas that are arid and semi-arid includes the arid Masai steppe the Serengeti, and Ngorongoro in the north Mkomazi and Pangani in the northeast spreading to Dodoma in the country’s midsection.

It also covers the semi-arid ecosystems consisting of Miombo and bushland areas stretching from southwest Mtwara, western Lindi, covering most of Morogoro woodlands, a northern plateau in Rukwa, Mbeya, Tabora, Arusha, Kigoma, and Mara.

This cluster is dominated by poor unimodal rainfall areas (400-800mm per year), with the more arid areas receiving one short rain between March and May. The plateau has higher uni-modal rainfall from 800-1600mm per year coming between November and April. It is highly vulnerable to reduce precipitation from climate change and amendable to sustainable natural resource management interventions since it is also the source of the bulk of wood fuel used in the country. SECCA also works around areas of the Lake Victoria basin where it has worked in the construction of artificial wetland in lake victoria in year 2013 and 2014. SECCA operates to facilitate environmental conservation and protection in realation to climate change.