Livelihood Opportunities Through Informal Housing in the New Capital City of Dodoma, Tanzania
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2011
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Abstract
Between March 2008 and March 2009 we conducted
a desk study and field work on informal and low cost
housing endeavours undertaken by building artisans in
the new capital city of Dodoma in Tanzania. The study
focused on the livelihood opportunities that can be
derived from the informal housing building sub-sector as
semi-skilled artisans’ grapple with the realities of unmet
housing needs of the designated capital city of Tanzania.
The argument is that there is a market for construction
of low-cost housing in informal settlements in the new
capital city even though these settlements are beset with
problems of lack of legal tenure, poor infrastructure and
sanitation. It is further argued that informal construction
work offers possibilities for employment and income
earning for semi-skilled artisans. It was felt that a detailed
study of informal housing building would provide a better
understanding of the key factors and trends affecting the
livelihood opportunities of people in the sub-sector and
the expectation was that the findings would enlighten on
the phenomenon and stimulate policy debates on how the
sub-sector can be developed sustainably considering the
fate of those concerned. The results show that the subsector
could contribute immensely in the construction of
the new capital city as well as improving the livelihoods
of the practitioners if only they were well organised in
cooperatives, enabled capacity-wise and training and
given legal recognition.
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Artisan, Building, Capital, City, Dodoma, Informal, Housing, Livelihoods, Policies, Poverty, Settlements, Sub-sector, SWOT, Tanzania, Theory, Urbanisation, Vulnerability
Citation
Makalle, A.M., Mesaki, S. and Victor, M.A., 2011. Livelihood Opportunities Through Informal Housing in the New Capital City of Dodoma, Tanzania/MOYENS DE SUBSISTANCE GRACE A L'HABITAT INFORMEL DU JOURNAL. Cross-Cultural Communication, 7(4), p.104.