Assessment of practices that urban dwellers do for environmental management in Kinondoni municipality

Thesis

This study was conducted in Kinondoni Municipal Council in Dar es Salaam region. Tanzania. The main objective of the study was to investigate the environmental management practices of the urban dwellers in their residential areas. A simple random sampling procedure was employed to obtain a sample of 85 households from two divisions namely: Kinondoni and Magomeni. Data were collected through personal observations. administration of structured questionnaire and key informant interview. The collected data were coded and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) computer program. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis were employed. It was revealed that about 93% of the residents in Kinondoni Municipality involved in environmental management practices. The linear regression results showed that domestic waste collection practice and cleaning the surroundings were statistically significance (p<0.05). This implies that these were the major environmental management practices of the urban dwellers in their residential areas. The study also found out that social, economical, political and cultural factors such as among others income levels, education levels, municipal guidelines, bylaws, and plot sizes influenced urban dwellers' participation in residential environmental management activities. The study concludes that majority of the residents participated differently in residential environmental management activities due to differences in their socio-economic, cultural and political orientations. The study recommends that the central government through local government authorities should lay down proper policy mechanisms for promoting dwellers’ participation in environmental management at the residential areas. In addition, municipal authorities should ensure that urban dwellers in residential areas are provided with supporting environmental management infrastructures such as tap water and better drainage systems, which will enable them to participate fully in the environmental management activities.

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