Dissertation (Masters)
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Item Factors influencing land use changes in urban areas: The case of land development projects in Ilemela municipal council(Mzumbe Unversity, 2019) Marwa, Julius C.The purpose aimed at assessing the factors influencing land use changes in urban area in Ilemela Municipality in Mwanza City. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design and the data were collected from 305 plot owners from the area of the study via survey questionnaires. The study also employed a logistic regression model to map the relationship between the predicators and land use changes in urban area. However, before running the model a different tests such as descriptive statistics and zero order correlation analysis was first run. The correlation analysis was meant to test any multicollinearity problem and it was found that there is no problem. The logistic regression results established that urban planning activities carried out by the municipal through urban planning projects, increases the odds of land use changes. It was also revealed that age of the land owner decreases the odds of land use changes while, marital status and sex of the plot owner revealed to increase the odds of land use changes in urban area. Apart from that, it’s the study found that accessibility and location increases the odds of land use changes in urban areas while, distance from the city Centre revealed to decrease the odds of land use changes in urban area. Apart from the demographic factors, the socio-economic factors such as land value, land tenure system and land demand revealed to increase the odds of land use changes in urban areas while, business activities revealed to have no any influence on land use changes in urban areas. The recommendation is made to the poly makers on establishing the awareness campaigns that the community at large become familiar with the land policy, land act and land regulations. To the municipal urban planners, the study recommends the adherence of regulations and procedures in implementing the land planning projects. The study also recommend the land owners to make efforts on understanding the land policy that govern the land use changes.Item Contribution of own sources revenue collections to implementation of development projects in Dar es salaam Municipal councils(Mzumbe University, 2013) Masogo, Masore MweryaThis study was based on the contibution of ownsources revenue collection to the implementation of development projects in Dar es salaam Municipal Councils (Ilala, Temeke and Kinondoni). Councils revenue collection and expenditure time series secondary data from 2003 to 2012 collected quarterly were used, whereby Ordinary Least square method was used to estimate the model. Overall results by using F-test shows p(0.0000) and it is statistically significant by 1%, this implies ownsources revenue collections have an impact on implementation of development projects in Dar es salaam municipal councils. Despite of that significancy, still there was some variable which did not satisfy all conditions of significance. Variable like funds collected from sales of municipal properties did not show linear relationship to implementation of development projects, but all the remaining variables were statistically significant and linearly related to implementation of development projects in Dar es salaam municipal councils. These result will help decision makers to make appropriate policies and decision on how to emphasize and concentrate more on ownsources revenue collection. This also will help many Local Government Authorities to identify more sources of income which can rise their revenue and set a clear demarcation of some amount of funds to be spent for implementation of development projects, rather than spent on everyday expenses (Recurrent expenditures).