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Assessment on the Effectiveness of the Community Participation on Waste Management in Moshi Municipal, Tanzania, Africa

Emmanuel Syonga*

This study focuses on the assessment of the effectiveness of the community participation on the waste management in Moshi municipal council in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. The general objective was to examine the effectiveness of community participation in waste management in Moshi municipal council. Study identified the role played and the factors that affect community participation in the management of waste together with the impact of community participation in the management of waste at Moshi municipal, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. The cross sectional design was used to gather data on relatively large number of people at the same time. The study used 99 respondents for instance, questionnaires was used to obtain data from ten people. The study respondents were WEOs, household members, district environmental officers, executive officer, ward environmental officers and street executive officer. Both primary and secondary data were collected where questionnaire, interviewing key informants and observation method was used in data collection. SPSS and content analysis were used for data collection where information was summarized in frequency, percentage narratives and presented in table and figures.