Geneva, Palais des Nations - May 3-6, 2000
CITIES OF THE SOUTH:
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W. Kombe
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UCLAS, Univerisity of Dar es Salaam
This paper examines the attempt to operationalise, institutionalise and put in place the Urban Environmented Planning and Management (EPM) concept in Dar es Salaam City as part of the new initiative to enhance the capacity of local urban governments to manage urban development through involvement of, and partnership with stakeholders in defining problems, setting priorities and implementing solutions. The paper outlines how Working Groups representing stakeholders were operationalised in two programmes undertaken in the city as part of the EPM process. It underscores the opportunities the new approach has in revitalising urban management particularly in resource starved situations such as those obtaining in Tanzania. The challenges, which impinge against sustained partnership with stakeholders in urban management, are outlined. These include weak political will, over-emphasis on physical oriented (short-term) outputs, reluctance to share power and the protracted nature of the EPM concept. The change of attitudes such as ambivalent attitudes of the political administrative elite's, apprehension to change, retraining and making W.G. more output oriented (efficient), and de-mystification of planning and management are seen to be fundamental to the institutionalisation of the new planning and management concept in the country.
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