I conducted research in Dar es Salaam between September 2016 to February 2018. It included interviews with urban decision-makers from the public sector, informal settlement residents and health ...

Providing security of tenure is believed to encourage investment into informal households and facilitate the provision of urban services. This study aims to evaluate the process of regularisation in ...

With almost 70 percent of its inhabitants living in informal settlements ... and response in 10 of Dar es Salaam’s most flood-prone communities. "Ramani Huria maps are user-friendly - they ...

How can people living in the informal settlements of Dar es Salaam ensure they have rights over where they ... all the Mtaa leaders was that they were working with really outdated maps that were ...

Photograph by Nichole Sobecki, National Geographic Dar es Salaam is a case in point. More than three-quarters of residents live in informal settlements ... of flood zone maps and emergency ...

Gamys, 30, is helping create the first map of Blamo Town, an informal settlement outside ... a dozen cities in 10 countries, including Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Dhaka in Bangladesh.

says a study done in Dar es Salaam, titled: "Informal Urban Settlements and Cholera Risk in Dar es Salaam which was published in PlosOne Journal. Against this backdrop, there are 5,800 cases of ...

Thousands of informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are located close to river banks including the flood plains of the river system. Despite rules that restrict the construction of human ...

It will also help transform a flood prone area in the center of the city into a vibrant green space and commercial and residential area that will benefit all residents of Dar es Salaam ... of ...

The government of Tanzania, and particularly the ministry of Lands and Human Settlements Development must be congratulated for conceiving the 20,000 plots project in Dar es Salaam. Most of its ...