Land delivery process is one of the major components of urban land management. A serious shortcoming in land delivery system has been a major cause of the inefficiency in urban land management in most Sub- Saharan countries. ...

Mainstreaming sustainable land development in the peri-urban areas under conventional planning is a challenge to planners, managers and service providers. It also bears on the permanent dwellers in informal settlements ...

One of the challenges confronting cities in non-industrialized countries today is the fact that cities are growing at unprecedented rates, sizes and densities. Growth trends in these cities are largely unregulated. In these ...

Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF, hereafter), as a new budget administration and management tool and package, has been recommended to a large number of developing countries by the World Bank (WB), International ...

Land is the basis for creation of wealth, social status, power and prestige. However, due to various reasons such as customary norms, women have been marginalized in access to and control of land. With this recognition, ...

In its past social services provision, the Government of Tanzania emphasized much on planning for construction and little on planning for and maintenance of primary school facilities. As a result, school buildings were ...

This paper is an attempt to deal with the issue of transformation of houses in formal and informal settlements. In many developing countries, the occupants of such dwellings make unauthorised but not insignificant alterations ...

This study examined the challenges and opportunities for resolving traffic congestion in Dar es Salaam city. The two major interventions namely, the road expansion and Three Lanes System (TLS) were studied. The methods of ...

Sound estimates of drought characteristics are very important for planning intervention measures in drought-prone areas. Due to data scarcity, many studies are increasingly using less data-intensive approaches, such as ...

Effective housing finance methods require the interrelationships between the housing finance system components such as banking and capital markets, land registry, the housing sector, and macroeconomic and socioeconomic ...