JINJA Norwegian University of Science and Technology JINJA Urban Ecological Planning Aar 4525 Fall 2013
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Urban Ecological Planning AAR 4525 JINJA Norwegian University of Science and Technology JINJA URBAN ECOLOGICAL PLANNING aaR 4525 FALL 2013 HOUSING SANITATION BUILDING AND MATERIAL TRAINING CENTER Anders Gunleiksrud Berekteab Hailu Wondesen Fiona Nshemerirwe Hanne Vrebos Megan Bodine Prier Raju Neupane Riny Sharma Signe Andersen Tryambakesh Shukla Veronica Hellebergshaugen [photo: Hans Skotte] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACRONYMS Our project would not have been possible without the Besides the we would also like to thank all the Savings AHF African Housing Fund guidance and the help of several individuals who in one Group from Kisima, Loco,Walukuba, Kimaka, Masese; BMTC Building Materials Training Center way or the other have contributed and extended their the Project Management Committe (PMC) Building CBO Community Based Organization valuable assistance in the preparation and completion Materials Training Centre and NWSC, Jinja. We thank CO2 Carbondioxide of this study. First and foremost, we express our utmost all the Community leaders for their contribution CSEB Compressed stabilized earth Blocks gratitude to our Professor Hans Skotte and Asst Prof during the field visits. The students from Makerere DANIda Danish International Development Agency Elena Archipovaite for their guidance in the course of University have been very helpful whenever it was DAPCB Departed Asian Property Custodian Board this learning. We thank our field superviser, Kasaija needed. Last but not the least we would like to DWD Directorate of Water Development Peter, for giving us the motivation and valuable insights thank Mari Sjaastad for her special and invaluable ESF Ecosan Services Foundation throughout our stay in Jinja. contribution, especially to the group working on FGD Focused Group Discussions Sanitation. Since it is nearly impossible to thank Fibre-Reinforced Cement We would like to thank all the officials from different everyone in this limited space we convey our gratitude FRC organisations who have helped us in the study of Jinja. to all the people in Jinja and Kampala who were linked HYT Haileybury Youth Trust We convey our gratitude to the experts from different to our project in anyway possible. IPCC International Panel on Climate Control fields who have taken time for helping us gather ISSB Interlocking Stabilized Soil Block valuable data and express their opinions. We would like JMC Jinja Municipal Council to give a special mention of the following people- LC1 Local Chairman 1 LIG Low Income Groups Tabitha Kakuze (Physical Planner) and also the Town MDF Municipal Development Forum Clerk from JMC MLHUD Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Joseph Sserunjogi, Michael Kasede and Mudamba MOU Memorandum of Understanding Umar from NSDFU NGO Non-Governmental Organization Waiswa Kakaire from ACTogether NSDFU National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda Nyende Ramathan (TSUPU Engineer) and also TSUPU NSS National Shelter Strategy coordinator Bijja Patrick, Community leader of Kawama NWSC National Water and Sewage Corporation PMC Project Management Committee SDI Slum/Shack Dwellers International PU Transforming the Settlements of the Urban Poor in Uganda UNESCAP United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN United Nations UNHABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme VIP Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine WHO World Health Organization WSP Water and Sanitation Program WSUP Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor TABLE OF CONTENTS HOUSING sanItatION BUILDIng TRAINING CENTER Urban Ecological Planning ......................................1 1. Housing for low Background .............................................................52 Introduction,our role ..............................................94 History .....................................................................3 income earners in Jinja ............................................17 Problem Statement .................................................53 Objectives of the study, Physical setting ........................................................6 2. Legal, institutional Objectives ................................................................53 timeline, methodology ............................................95 Political setting ........................................................7 and policy framework ..............................................17 Methodology ...........................................................55 Background .............................................................96 Socio economic setting ............................................8 3. Case studies .........................................................21 Existing Projects.......................................................57 Housing Trends ........................................................97 4. Kawama. Different stakeholders. NGO Projects ...........................................................59 The need ..................................................................99 Different stories. ......................................................24 Excisting connections ..............................................63 Building Materials....................................................100 5. Scaling up; result chain. .......................................29 Proposed connections .............................................64 Low cost building materials .....................................103 6. Recommendations ...............................................33 Timeline of process .................................................65 materials produced at the bMTC .............................104 7. Alternative options on housing ...........................45 Existing & Stakeholders ............................................................107 8. Conclusion & Way Forward .................................47 Proposed Process ....................................................66 Business Model ......................................................109 Appendix .................................................................49 TSUPU Funding Programme ....................................69 Market and Customer Analysis ................................110 Environment ............................................................70 Sales Analysis ...........................................................111 City-level recommendations ....................................71 Income in form of Training Fees ..............................112 Site-specific recommendations ...............................72 Financial Feasibility of the Project ...........................113 Loco Housing Estate ................................................73 Financial Recommendations ...................................114 Double Pit Permanent .............................................77 Training Model of the BMTC ....................................115 Residential Management ........................................79 Community Center ..................................................116 Walukuba ................................................................81 the site .....................................................................117 Kimaka ....................................................................83 Design approach ......................................................119 Market Management ..............................................85 Design Phasing ........................................................121 Recommendations & conclusion .............................87 Design Costing .........................................................125 reflections ................................................................90 Conclusion ..............................................................127 Appendix-A ..............................................................91 Recommendations...................................................128 Appendix-B ..............................................................92 Reflections ...............................................................129 Fieldwork Participants .............................................131 Advisors ...................................................................133 References ...............................................................135 Urban ecologICAL PLANNIng The masters’ programme in Urban Ecological in the cities of Global South. The challenges posed Planning is primarily designed to address the real, by these cities to planners and architects are quite on-the-ground, urban issues of the developing and significant. Fieldwork of this nature provides one of the industrialising world which is estimated to hold most promising and realistic paths to assist all manner about 85% of world’s population by 2050. While the of urban change agents in addressing some of the programme evolves constantly to reflect the current most pressing concerns facing a fast urbanizing Global challenges of urbanisation, the core is to address South. During the last two years the first semester’s and re-analyse different local and contextual urban fieldwork has taken place in Nepal and Uganda. This planning issues in an alternative manner that rests on fieldwork is carried out in corporation with teachers inclusionary, territorial, and incremental methods of and students from local Universities, international cognition. NGOs and the country’s principal research centres. In Uganda additional cooperation is elicited from UN- The program