A5000965626- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Housing Market and Economics
- Community Health and Development
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Water resources management and optimization
- Architecture and Cultural Influences
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Ardhi University
2017-2025
The involvement of citizens and communities in processes that affect their lives livelihoods through co-production methods has gained currency recent years as a method to deliver place-based action capable advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. Co-production represents promising approach addresses criticisms leveraged against community-oriented participatory planning approaches. In this paper, we investigate potential advance different dimensions urban equality environments, including...
ABSTRACT Photovoice is a popular participatory research method for instigating critical reflection and social change. It does, however, rely on participants being able to photographically capture the phenomenon under study. This raises challenging questions that may obstruct use of in climate change studies. Is visible? Can it be captured? What can instigate context global change? To gain clarity role studies, this article provides an overview previously published work. We do identify some...
Since the 1990s, Tanzanian public housing authority, National Housing Corporation (NHC), has been changing its goal, from prioritizing delivery of affordable housing, to becoming a leading commercial and residential real estate developer. This happens against backdrop market-based reform state's growing reliance on private markets support urban development. In this paper, we look at impact NHC's new approach effect production every day practice in Dar es Salaam. The analysis is based case...
The number of female-headed households migrating into cities is increasing. Female-headed compete for limited housing options with other varying socio-economic capacities. As a result, women have to choose from several pathways, utilising available social capital that occasionally covers inadequate financial resources. This may sometimes lead conflict and exploitation by landlords brokers. article seeks understand the influence women’s networks on pathways pursue in Kampala city. Using...
Formal social security is helpful to the general population, especially during a post-retirement time and when they have been affected in ways that make them unable work due medical or physical conditions. About 95 per cent of people working informal economy are not members National Social Security Fund (NSSF). Some formulated organisations offering services. The central argument this paper can we use these informally arranged be used by relevant authorities mobilise join formal schemes....
Despite varying conceptions of what co-production entails, there is a growing consensus in research, practice and public policy discourse that preferred strategy for leveraging resources to deliver basic infrastructure services low-income settlements. Using largely qualitative data, this paper explores the adaption settlement Hanna Nassif Dar es Salaam, implemented 20 years ago by state actors, international agencies grassroots with attention local employment. The findings reveal engendered...
Increased flooding caused by climate change impacts is a challenge for many cities both in developing and developed countries. The existing storm water drainage systems place have to be physically constructed expanded meet the run-off challenge. This an expensive management undertaking resource poor countries such as Tanzania. Landscape based (LSM) put forward sustainable option manage it also addresses scarcity problems under-served urban settlement. However its implementation that are...
This article aims to understand grassroots responses COVID-19 and how they impacted the well-being of low-income informal communities in Dar es Salaam. An exploratory qualitative research design, using semi-structured questionnaires, was adopted for use Ubungo Kisiwani Hanna Nassif settlements. Focus group discussions with select members community, including women’s groups, mtaa (sub-ward) ten-cell leaders, were held. The selection respondents took into account socio-economic spatial...
The contribution of social networks in providing insurance against various urban vulnerabilities cannot be underestimated among workers. Urban residents working the informal sector face everyday challenges related to public spaces and harassment from police local authorities, low incomes, poverty when they work due sickness or accidents. Women workers additional hardships their reproductive roles choosing between going caring for children health during maternity periods. Social have a...
This paper investigates how low-income female-headed households exploit the social livelihoods assets to participate in Kampala city's informal urban housing market. It further explores various strategies which, absence of financial assets, are explored by access and markets. The study is qualitative adopts a case research strategy that recruited thirty-seven (n=37) participants from Luzira-Kisenyi settlement city. adopted purposive exponential discriminative snowball sampling procedures...