Assessing the livelihoods of slum dwellers in old, upgraded and new informal settlements in Kampala city and their impact on physical planning: A case study of Kisugu-Namuwongo area

Abstract

The report also constitutes study findings of a field research carried out in March 2017 guided by these central questions: -1. How the residents ended up living in Namuwongo upgraded slum Kisugu old slum and the new slum Soweto? ; 2. What are the sources of livelihood for the slum dwellers in the study area? ; 3. What are the livelihood challenges of households in the Namuwongo, Kisugu and Soweto slums? ; 4. What are strategies and approaches for improving slums and preventing their formation in the study area? The study employed secondary data from literature review for theoretical framework development and field study tools. Purposive sampling and Stratified random sampling techniques were used in the case of physical planning department staff in Makindye Division and Soweto, Namuwongo, Kisugu residents whose sample sizes were 2 and 60 respectively. The study also employed case study design and the data was analyzed descriptively and presented in tables and figures. Improving livelihoods in Soweto, Namuwongo and Kisugu slums has various stakeholders including tenants, resident and non-resident structure owners, land owners, public authorities, civil society, private sector and international development agencies. Despite of the efforts to address the slum issue through formulation of the National Slum Upgrading Strategy which prescribes measures to improve conditions as well as prevent emergency of new slums, the upgrading of slums in Namuwongo in Kampala, Masese in Jinja, Malukhu in Mbale, and Oil in Aura, the profiling of slums with a view of generating basic data and information necessary for planning ,the preparation of structure (Master) plans for 73 towns, formulation of the National Land use Policy and review of the Town and Country Planning Law, there is still emergence of new slums like Soweto slum even after the upgrading of Namuwongo slum