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Papers by Alphonce Kyessi
Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency o... more Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency of conventional approaches have rendered it impossible to provide basic infrastructure in urban areas in developing countries such as in the city of Dar es Salaam. In that situation fringe neighbourhoods are mostly hit. However, a notable phenomenon has emerged in informal and formal settlements where the communities, through self-help and local governance in their own neighbourhood associations, have organised to fill the gaps in infrastructure services left by the centralised institutions. Among other things, community groups mobilise and organise fund-raising, mutual self-help and external technical assistance to provide water supply and sanitation, roads and drainage channels within the immediate area. This seems to be a trend in infrastructure improvement in poor neighbourhoods including fringe settlements. Actors observed to be participating in the process of providing the basic services and facilities in some of the fringe settlements include Dar es Salaam City Council (DCC), the civil societies including political party organisations and private individuals as well as youth and women groups, and the donor community. This paper discusses the potentials and constraints existing in the provision of basic infrastructure to fringe settlements taking water management as an example. Potable water was chosen to explain the case because these settlements are not connected to the Dar es Salaam Water and Sanitation Authority (DAWASA-a centralised institution) water supply system and are remotely located. The purpose is to inform policy makers, researchers and practitioners including water providers and managers and water users on potentials and constraints existing in the provision and management of water supply in remote poor communities. Potable water as an essential need plays a major role in health development and if water is not easily accessible much time is wasted to search for it. One of the questions to be answered is how the residents, most of them being poor, are coping up with the deficiency of water supply in their fringe areas. r
International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 2010
Purpose -Any attempt to improve housing quality goes concurrently with improvement of income leve... more Purpose -Any attempt to improve housing quality goes concurrently with improvement of income level and with economic development. In this paper we make assessment of the viability of microfinance institutions in financing housing improvement for the urban poor. Approach -In order to understand in great depth the viability of microfinance institutions in housing finance for the urban poor in Tanzania, we applied the case study strategy with five sub-cases which form the smallest unit of analysis. Findings -Most housing financing initiatives carried out by governments and large financial institutions often end up benefiting high/middle income segment. Administrative procedures, terms and conditions set up by the government and banking institutions exclude the poor due to their low affordability levels. As poor cannot meet the set stringent conditions; the microfinance institutions (MFIs) that are growing in numbers in Tanzania and other developing countries have been their alternative strategy for housing finance Research implications -Close linkage exists between the housing loans, housing improvement and poverty alleviation among the urban poor in an informal housing settlement. Practical implications -WAT-SACCOS, a housing MFI, has devised repayment schedule which are viable, compatible and affordable to the poor. These types of institutions can be used as intermediaries between large financial institutions including commercial banks and the poor to ease the later to access housing loans. Public-private and popular partnerships facilitates the availability of financial services to the urban poor. Value -This paper adds to the literature that whilst housing issues should continue to be on top of development and political agenda, housing MFI assists in ensuring that the poor gets access to housing which is regarded as a poverty reduction asset.
Habitat International, 2005
Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency o... more Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency of conventional approaches have rendered it impossible to provide basic infrastructure in urban areas in developing countries such as in the city of Dar es Salaam. In that situation fringe neighbourhoods are mostly hit. However, a notable phenomenon has emerged in informal and formal settlements where the communities, through self-help and local governance in their own neighbourhood associations, have organised to fill the gaps in infrastructure services left by the centralised institutions. Among other things, community groups mobilise and organise fund-raising, mutual self-help and external technical assistance to provide water supply and sanitation, roads and drainage channels within the immediate area. This seems to be a trend in infrastructure improvement in poor neighbourhoods including fringe settlements. Actors observed to be participating in the process of providing the basic services and facilities in some of the fringe settlements include Dar es Salaam City Council (DCC), the civil societies including political party organisations and private individuals as well as youth and women groups, and the donor community. This paper discusses the potentials and constraints existing in the provision of basic infrastructure to fringe settlements taking water management as an example. Potable water was chosen to explain the case because these settlements are not connected to the Dar es Salaam Water and Sanitation Authority (DAWASA-a centralised institution) water supply system and are remotely located. The purpose is to inform policy makers, researchers and practitioners including water providers and managers and water users on potentials and constraints existing in the provision and management of water supply in remote poor communities. Potable water as an essential need plays a major role in health development and if water is not easily accessible much time is wasted to search for it. One of the questions to be answered is how the residents, most of them being poor, are coping up with the deficiency of water supply in their fringe areas. r
Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency o... more Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency of conventional approaches have rendered it impossible to provide basic infrastructure in urban areas in developing countries such as in the city of Dar es Salaam. In that situation fringe neighbourhoods are mostly hit. However, a notable phenomenon has emerged in informal and formal settlements where the communities, through self-help and local governance in their own neighbourhood associations, have organised to fill the gaps in infrastructure services left by the centralised institutions. Among other things, community groups mobilise and organise fund-raising, mutual self-help and external technical assistance to provide water supply and sanitation, roads and drainage channels within the immediate area. This seems to be a trend in infrastructure improvement in poor neighbourhoods including fringe settlements. Actors observed to be participating in the process of providing the basic services and facilities in some of the fringe settlements include Dar es Salaam City Council (DCC), the civil societies including political party organisations and private individuals as well as youth and women groups, and the donor community. This paper discusses the potentials and constraints existing in the provision of basic infrastructure to fringe settlements taking water management as an example. Potable water was chosen to explain the case because these settlements are not connected to the Dar es Salaam Water and Sanitation Authority (DAWASA-a centralised institution) water supply system and are remotely located. The purpose is to inform policy makers, researchers and practitioners including water providers and managers and water users on potentials and constraints existing in the provision and management of water supply in remote poor communities. Potable water as an essential need plays a major role in health development and if water is not easily accessible much time is wasted to search for it. One of the questions to be answered is how the residents, most of them being poor, are coping up with the deficiency of water supply in their fringe areas. r
International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 2010
Purpose -Any attempt to improve housing quality goes concurrently with improvement of income leve... more Purpose -Any attempt to improve housing quality goes concurrently with improvement of income level and with economic development. In this paper we make assessment of the viability of microfinance institutions in financing housing improvement for the urban poor. Approach -In order to understand in great depth the viability of microfinance institutions in housing finance for the urban poor in Tanzania, we applied the case study strategy with five sub-cases which form the smallest unit of analysis. Findings -Most housing financing initiatives carried out by governments and large financial institutions often end up benefiting high/middle income segment. Administrative procedures, terms and conditions set up by the government and banking institutions exclude the poor due to their low affordability levels. As poor cannot meet the set stringent conditions; the microfinance institutions (MFIs) that are growing in numbers in Tanzania and other developing countries have been their alternative strategy for housing finance Research implications -Close linkage exists between the housing loans, housing improvement and poverty alleviation among the urban poor in an informal housing settlement. Practical implications -WAT-SACCOS, a housing MFI, has devised repayment schedule which are viable, compatible and affordable to the poor. These types of institutions can be used as intermediaries between large financial institutions including commercial banks and the poor to ease the later to access housing loans. Public-private and popular partnerships facilitates the availability of financial services to the urban poor. Value -This paper adds to the literature that whilst housing issues should continue to be on top of development and political agenda, housing MFI assists in ensuring that the poor gets access to housing which is regarded as a poverty reduction asset.
Habitat International, 2005
Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency o... more Diminishing state resources coupled with inadequate urban management capacity and insufficiency of conventional approaches have rendered it impossible to provide basic infrastructure in urban areas in developing countries such as in the city of Dar es Salaam. In that situation fringe neighbourhoods are mostly hit. However, a notable phenomenon has emerged in informal and formal settlements where the communities, through self-help and local governance in their own neighbourhood associations, have organised to fill the gaps in infrastructure services left by the centralised institutions. Among other things, community groups mobilise and organise fund-raising, mutual self-help and external technical assistance to provide water supply and sanitation, roads and drainage channels within the immediate area. This seems to be a trend in infrastructure improvement in poor neighbourhoods including fringe settlements. Actors observed to be participating in the process of providing the basic services and facilities in some of the fringe settlements include Dar es Salaam City Council (DCC), the civil societies including political party organisations and private individuals as well as youth and women groups, and the donor community. This paper discusses the potentials and constraints existing in the provision of basic infrastructure to fringe settlements taking water management as an example. Potable water was chosen to explain the case because these settlements are not connected to the Dar es Salaam Water and Sanitation Authority (DAWASA-a centralised institution) water supply system and are remotely located. The purpose is to inform policy makers, researchers and practitioners including water providers and managers and water users on potentials and constraints existing in the provision and management of water supply in remote poor communities. Potable water as an essential need plays a major role in health development and if water is not easily accessible much time is wasted to search for it. One of the questions to be answered is how the residents, most of them being poor, are coping up with the deficiency of water supply in their fringe areas. r