Popular Participation in the Planning Process of Dodoma Municipal Council, Tanzania

ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to establish the Effects of Popular Participation in the Planning Process of Local government Dodoma municipal council, Tanzania. This study was guided by four specific objectives and these included; To examine the category of people who participate in the planning process of Local Governments, To analyze the impact of peoples~ decisions in the planning process, To explain how has the planning process in which popular participation takes place, To explore the challenges associated with popular participation in the planning process of Local Governments. The study employed descriptive research design in it is methodology. From the findings, popular participation was high with an overall mean of 2.97 on a liker scale indicating that community support planning process of local government so that they are satisfied with the services and programs rendered to them by the Dodoma municipality. On the level of planning process, the findings obtained from the interview were consistent with the one obtained though the questionnaires. Over 80 °k of the respondents interviewed also supported that the level of planning process of local governments was still high. The study concluded that, there is need for local governments to organize programmes where the community can be taught some of the technical planning activities like project management. There is need to ensure that all the beneficiaries in local communities are knowledgeable about popular participation and as well as planning processes of local governments.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION A

DECLARATION B ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEM ENT iv

ABSTRACT v

LIST OF TABLES vii

Table 4.1.1: Table Showing Sex Distribution of Respondents 41

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TABLE OF CONTENTS viii

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1. Background to the Study 1

1.1.1 Historical Perspective 1

1.1.2 Theoretical Perspective 3

1.1.3 Conceptual Perspective 4

1.1.4 Contextual Perspective 4

1.2 Statement of the Problem 5

1.3 Purpose of the Study 5

1.4. Specific Objectives 6

The research Objectives were; 6

1.5 Research Questions 6

1.6 Hypotheses 6

1.7 The Scope of the Study 7

1.7.1 Geographical Scope 7

1.7.2 Content Scope 7

1.8 Significance of the Study 7

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1.9 Operational Definition of Key Terms.8

CHAPTER TWO 10

LITERATURE REVIEW 10

2.0 Introduction 10

2.2 Conceptual Framework 10

2.3 Related literature 12

2.3.1 The Concept of Popular Participation 12

2.3.2 Community Participation and Project Management 13

2.3.3 Participation in local government Development Programmes 14

2.3.4 Popular Participation in Local Governments Globally 19

2.3.5 Popular Participation in Local Governments 25

2.3.6 Popular Participation in the Planning Process 26

2.3.7 Financing the Participatory Planning Process 29

2.4 Summary of gaps identified 30

CHAPTER THREE 31

METHODOLOGY 31

3.0 Introduction 31

3.1 Research Design 31

3.2 The Study Population 31

3.3 Sample Size 32

3.4 Sampling Procedure 32

3.5 Research Instruments 33

3.6. Validity and Reliability of the Instruments 34

3.7 Data Gathering Procedures 34

3.8 Data Analysis 34

3.9 Ethical Considerations 36

3.10 Limitations of the Study 36

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CHAPTER ~UR.38

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 38

4.0 Introduction 38

4.1 Demographic information of the respondents 38

4.1.1 Sex distribution of respondents 39

Table 4.1.1: Table Showing Sex Distribution of Respondents 39

4.1.2 Age of respondents 41

Table 4.1.2: Table Showing the Age Distribution of Respondents 41

4.1.3 Level of Education of respondents 42

Table 4.1.3: Table showing level of education of respondents 42

4.2 Level of popular participation 43

Table 4.2.4 Level popular participation has influenced Planning Process of

Local Government in Dodoma Municipal Council, Tanzania 44

4.3 Level of planning process 48

Table 4.3.5 Level of planning process of local governments in Dodoma

municipality 49

4.4 Relationship between popular participation and planning process 53

CHAPTER FIVE 55

FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 55

5.1 Introduction 55

5.2 Findings of the study ss

5.2.1 Level of Popular participation 55

5.2.2 Planning process of local governments ss

5.2.3 Relationship between level of popular participation and planning

process of local governments 55

5.3 Conclusions 56

5.4 Recommendation 56

REFERENCES

APPENDIX I A .60

TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR THE RESPONDENTS 60

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLOR (DVC) 60

COLLEGE OF HIGHER DEGREES AND RESEARCH (CHDR) 60

APPENDIX lB 61

TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR THE RESPONDENTS 61

PPENDIX 11 62

CLEARANCE FROM ETHICS COMMITTEE 62

APPENDIX III 64

INFORMED CONSENT 64

APPENDIX IA 65

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT 65

APPENDIX IVB 67

QUESTIONNAIRE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF POPULAR

PARTICIPATION IN DODOMA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TANZANIA 67

APPENDIX IVB 69

PLANNING PROCESS OF LOCAL GOVERNMNT 69