Urabn Growth And Environmental Solid Waste Management In Tanzania: A Case Study Of Dodoma Municipality

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to assess the urban growth and environmental solid waste management

in Dodoma Municipality. From the data given by National Bureau of Statistics shows that

Dodoma Municipal is growing faster.

For the purpose of obtaining sufficient data the specific objectives and research questions

included: factors responsible for the urban growth and source of solid waste disposal in

different parts of Dodoma Municipality, the trend of environmental waste management

condition in Dodoma Municipality, the current effects of urban growth on environmental

management in Dodoma Municipality, and the efforts undertaken by Municipal Authority

to provide adequate environmental solid waste management in Dodoma Municipality. The

study used cross-sectional survey design and obtained data through questionnaire,

interview and group discussion from the randomly sampling selected sample for the study

in six wards selected for the study in Dodoma Municipality. Qualitative data was analysed

through analysis methods content and structured functional analysis was used to analyse

qualitative data and information while the quantitative data collected through structural

and semi structured questionnaires were analysed using statistical package for social

science (SPSS) to obtain descriptive statistics such as percentage of the respondents,

frequencies and mean.

From the findings there were many factors including, migration of people of both rural

urban migration and migration from other towns to Dodoma Municipality, Socioeconomic

activities, natural increase as the causes of urban growth while the Households

residents and the street vendors were the source of solid waste disposal in Dodoma

Municipality. The efforts taken to solid waste management include education and

awareness creation to citizen, collection of waste and allocation of specific dumping areas.