| dc.description.abstract | The study focused on the adoption of land pooling as a slum upgrading technique and information was extracted from Kamwokya II a slum in Kampala that acted as the case study. The researcher developed a number of specific objectives that is (i) To identify the loopholes in the existing slum upgrading methods in Kampala, (ii) To determine the roles of stakeholders in slum upgrading in Kampala and lastly (iii) To evaluate the most appropriate land pooling strategy in Kampala. The purpose of the study was to provide a solution for the continued emerging slums in Kampala despite previously implemented techniques. A mixed research design was employed that involved the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection. A sample of 177 respondents that compressed 135 slum dwellers, 10 Act Together Uganda Officials, 5 KCCA officials, 15 landlords, 7 Officials from the National Slum Dwellers Federation. The main data collection instruments were Questionnaires, Interview guides and document review. The collected data was then analyzed with the help of Excel and SPSS. The Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to test the statistical significant difference between the dependent variables and independent variables. The results showed that the dependent variables were statistically different for all respondent types, suggesting that each of the respondents think differently on how land pooling will solve the existing loopholes in slum upgrading. The results from the analysis were presented inform of tables and charts. The study revealed a number of loopholes in the existing slum upgrading techniques and the respondents showed that these loopholes were a challenge in this order from the most disturbing to the least depending on the average responses; High costs (1.62), Corruption among stakeholders (1.74), Poor coordination (1.76), Bureaucratic tendencies (1.86), Unfair compensation of stakeholders (2.00), Displacement of people (2.69). The results indicated that the success of any slum upgrading technique is highly reliant on how these challenges are handled. The study also revealed the roles that each of the slum dwellers play in a land pooling project. Slum dwellers did not have specific technical roles to play but rather were to offer a helping hand in the implementation stages of the project for example volunteering in construction, sanitation, etc. The biggest roles of landlords were, following up on the progress of the slum upgrading project, coordinating with government on compensation and availing their land for slum development. Two land pooling strategies were suggested that is; government becoming landlord through compensation, and the landlords agreeing to retain part of their land and giving the reminder to government and slum dwellers for development. | en_US |
