Mwanza Rural Housing Programme (MRHP) has trained villagers in northern Tanzania to set up enterprises making high-quality bricks from local clay fired with agricultural residues. These enterprises have made sufficient bricks to construct over 100,000 homes with greatly improved comfort and durability in 70 villages.

MRHP has also developed more efficient cooking stoves which are made and sold by local entrepreneurs. It runs a programme of tree planting and reforestation in all its project villages and has recently started to supply photovoltaic (PV) solar home systems for lighting.