PhD DEFENCE – LEKUMOK KIRONYI
School of Agricultural Economics and Business Studies (COEBS) is pleased to inform you that Dr. Lekumok Kironyi who is a PhD student at School of Agricultural Economics and Business Studies and the University of Copenhagen, Department of GEO-science and Natural Resource Management has successfully defended his PhD titled: The role of government practices related to land, water and solid waste in supporting the transformation of Emerging Urban Centers under DANIDA Funded project: Rural-urban Transformation: Economics Dynamics, Mobility and Governance of Emerging Urban Centers for Poverty Reduction.
Dr. Kironyi is employed as an Assistant Lecturer with Mwalimu J.K. Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology (MJNUAT). He registered as a double degree student with Sokoine University of Agriculture in October 2015 to pursue PhD studies in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness (DAEA), School of Agricultural Economics and Business Studies (COEBS) and University of Copenhagen, Department of Geo-sciences and Natural Resources Management.
He was supervised by; Dr. Jeremia R. Makindara (Head of Department of Business Management), Dr. Evelyn A. Lazaro (Department of Food and Resource Economcs- DeFRE) and Prof. Torben Birch-Thomsen (University of Copenhagen). The defence was held on Thursday, 3rd September 2020 at COEBS, computer room with five panellists; Prof. M.J.Kadigi (Chairperson), Dr. Betty M. Waized (Internal Examiner), Dr. Evelyn A. Lazaro (Supervisor and internal examiner), Prof. Søren Bech Pilegaard Kristensen (Appointee of the Dean) and Dr. Roselyne Alphonce (Appointee of the Head).
Summary of the Thesis
In Tanzania, many rural villages are being transformed from rural (villages) into urban (townships) entities. Within formal administrative units like townships and village centres, Emerging Urban Centres (EUCs) have been rapidly growing both demographically and economically. Despite rapid growth, governance mechanisms are not keeping pace with these rapid socio-economic transformations. The broad objective of this study was to identify how governance practices (public and private) in relation to land, domestic water and solid waste management have developed in supporting processes of rural-urban transformation. The study was conducted in Ilula and Madizini EUCs. The study employed a combination of research methods for data collection and analysis. Results indicate that EUCs have experienced changes in land use in the form of housing densification and spatial expansion. Similarly, governance structures and practices related to land, domestic water and solid waste have changed in support of rural-urban transformation. The study concludes that EUCs are rapidly growing but the local government authorities are lagging behind in planning service provisions. Therefore, the study recommends that the respective government authorities facilitate the attainment of township status to give local government authorities within townships autonomy in decision-making and in planning service provision for the rapidly growing populations of both EUCs.
Let’s join hands to congratulate him for the achievement.
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