Designed to improve effective delivery of social services
Raphael Kilapilo
The five -year project will be implemented in all the three districts of Dar es Salaam, Ilala, Kinondoni and Temeke, the Information Officer in the Prime Minister’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government), Raphael Kilapilo has said.
In an exclusive interview held last week in the city, he told The Guardian that the government has already received a loan of USD100 million from the World Bank for the project been part of the USD150 million that the Government requested for.
Kilapilo said the project will focus on eight key areas: Improvement of solid waste management systems, specifically a better system for collecting and transporting solid waste to dump sites.
Another area will be improvement of the storm water drainage system to control floods in the city. The project will examine the system, status of available infrastructure and reconstruct it altogether, he said.
Kilapilo said the project will also focus on upgrading the infrastructure in unplanned settlements to ease access to residential houses.
“This would help authorities deliver the various social services in those areas through set up of among other things, water kiosks and improving their electricity supply,” he detailed.
Also in the initiative is the improvement of main roads which are under local government authorities, a project that will involve among other things, construction of infrastructures for business hawkers near bus stops.
According to Kilapilo, the project will help municipalities, through Public Private Partnership (PPP), realize their development projects.
‘They will also be able to conduct feasibility studies on the possibility of using railway and marine transport to reduce traffic jams in their areas particularly Mbweni to Kivukoni,” he added.
“The inefficient road network in the city leads to traffic congestions and results in man-hour losses to the tune of 4bn/- everyday,” he said commenting on the current status of the city’s infrastructure set up which he noted is been worsened by the mushrooming of unplanned settlements causing bottleneck to social service delivery.
“Currently, over 4000 tonnes of waste is produced daily in Dar es Salaam, while at most only 30 percent is collected. Garbage collection, transportation and disposal are not adequately addressed, and there is no clear valuation of revenue accruing from solid waste,” he lamented.
Kilapilo said the project is an off-shoot of the ongoing Tanzania Strategic Cities Project (TSCP) officially launched in 2010 in response to a request by the government to the International Development Association and the Royal Danish Government to assist in improving the quality of and access to basic urban services.
The request was also for institutional strengthening of selected urban Local Government Authorities (LGAs) and Capital Development Authorities (CDAs).
The Tanzania Strategic Cities Project (TSCP) started in 2010 and will run to next year. It is being implemented in several regions across the country including Arusha, Kigoma, Dodoma, Mtwara, Mwanza, Mbeya and Tanga.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
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