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Case Study: Mwanza Contents Case study: Mwanza Contents Introduction 4 The case of Mwanza – an introduction to the city 7 Urban governance and politics 7 Governance arrangements for urban sanitation 8 Local government fiscal profile 9 Financial profile - MWAUWASA 11 Water and sanitation profile 12 Household sanitation challenges in Mwanza 15 MWAUWASA urban water and sanitation plan 15 Donor and NGO support to sanitation in Mwanza 18 Factors explaining the funding and regulation of fecal sludge management in Mwanza 19 Conclusion 22 2 ODI Report Tables Table 1: MWAUWASA – Annual labour against operational cost 2012- 2015 12 Table 2: Percentage distribution of households by household toilet facility, 2012 13 Figures Figure 1: Budgeted and actual revenues of Mwanza City Council, 2012-13 9 Figure 2: Budgeted and actual revenues of Ilemela District Council, 2014-15 9 Figure 3: Budget allocations of central government recurrent block grants to LGAs, 2012-13 9 Figure 4: Mwanza City Council - total expenditure, recurrent vs. development, 2012-13 10 Figure 5: Ilemela Municipal Council - total expenditure, recurrent vs. development, 2014-15 10 Figure 6: Mwanza City Council development grants and funds - actual budget allocation, 2012-13 11 Figure 7: MWUAWASA - Sources of income, 2014-15 11 Figure 8: MWUAWASA - Expenditure, 2014-15 13 Figure 9: MWAUWASA – Annual operational cost coverage, 2006-15 13 Figure 10: MWAUWASA projected income, 2009-17 16 Figure 11: MWAUWASA expected sanitation costs and revenue, 2009-17 16 Figure 12: MWAUWASA projected financial viability, 2009-17 17 Annex A1: Mwanza case study 3 Introduction This case study explores how the city of Mwanza is management of local government staff (Government of experiencing political and financial challenges of ensuring Tanzania, 2016). improved sanitation. Comparing political interest in For urban water and sanitation, decentralisation sanitation, diverging political priorities at the national processes have resulted in significant management and municipal level, sources of finance, and population changes. At the national level, sanitation is primarily the characteristics, the case study aims to assess the potential responsibility of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation for government-led improvements in the whole sanitation (MoWI) which develops water policy and strategy. chain. These case studies are based primarily on interviews However, urban water supply and sanitation authorities conducted for the main report and on government sources. (UWSAs) have been introduced which are now responsible for water and sanitation in urban areas. UWSAs are accountable to the MoWI and are regulated by the central Decentralisation and urban governance of Energy and Water Utility Regulatory Authority (EWURA). sanitation in Tanzania The provision of sanitation and wastewater Local government in urban areas is comprised of city, management concerns public and environmental health, municipal and town Councils, ward development local infrastructure development, human settlement committees (WDCs), and mitaa (neighbourhoods). planning, and road development which is the responsibility However, local government in Tanzania, as in many of local government authority (LGA) departments as other sub-Saharan African countries, remains heavily well as their respective ministries; the Ministry for controlled by the centre (Boex and Martinez-Vazquez, Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development 2006). For instance, national party leaders nominate (MLHHSD) and the Ministry for Health and Social candidates for local Council positions and the ruling party Welfare. LGA plans and budgets are also closely overseen Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has, until recently been by the PORALG. UWSAs are accountable upwards to the strongly represented by Councillors at the local level, and MoWI but not to the LGAs operating in the same area, and there was limited political opposition (Venugopal and so UWSAs can contradict LGA by-laws and plans which Yilmaz, 2010). The situation has changed following the may obstruct cross-sector coordination of urban sanitation last national election in 2010, which saw a significant services at the local level (Government of Tanzania, 2016). increase in representation of the opposition parties at the Financing for urban services has also changed as a result local level, especially in the urban areas, where some are of decentralisation. The LGRPs led to an increase in governed by opposition parties. Examples include Dar es intergovernmental transfers to local government budgets Salaam and Arusha City Councils, and Kinondoni and due to higher intergovernmental transfers, although Ilala Municipal Councils in Dar es Salaam. Likewise, the the proportion of public funds transferred from central Public Service Recruitment Secretariat (PSRS), which is government to LGAs has hardly changed (Tidemand a central government agency, recruits civil service staff and Msami, 2010). LGAs are highly dependent on for local government positions, and the most senior intergovernmental transfers, on average receiving 91% positions are appointed by the President or the President’s of their revenue from central government (Government Office - Regional Administration and Local Government of Tanzania, 2016; Tidemand and Msami, 2010). To (PORALG) (Ridder, 2015). support LGAs to generate greater revenues themselves, the The relatively high centralisation of political and government has passed a Public Private Partnership Act administrative power in Tanzania persists despite two (2010) and a Public Procurement Act (2011), which allow national decentralisation reform programmes; the Local UWSAs and LGAs to seek private sector involvement in the Government Reform Program (LGRP) I and II. By 2008, provision of services (Government of Tanzania, 2016). after the first phase of the LGRP, responsibility for some A new mechanism for financing infrastructure at the basic services had been decentralised to LGAs along with local level was introduced in 2004 in the form of the Local the deconcentration of some responsibility for water, Government Capital Development Grant (LGCDG), which sanitation and roads (Government of Tanzania, 2016). has now become the Local Government Development However, the second phase of the LGRP has not been fully Grant (LGDG) System (Government of Tanzania, 2016). implemented and central government has recentralised the However, central government strongly influences how these transfers are spent resulting in the alignment of 4 ODI Report nearly all LGA plans with central government spending Budget allocations to solid waste management are much priorities (Fjeldstad et al., 2010; Tidemand and Msami, greater than allocations to wastewater management, 2010). Besides, central government often issues directives and sanitation is not very visible in the national budget. to LGAs that have significant expenditure implications for Policy on sanitation is also limited. A central government the approved budgets. A massive drive to provide primary policy on sanitation was begun in 2005 but this is still and secondary schools desks and a previous directive on in draft format and responsibilities for sanitation across construction of laboratories in all secondary schools are government departments have not been clearly defined recent examples. In addition to this development funding, since legislative changes in 2009. Consequently, there LGAs receive intergovernmental transfers for recurrent is some confusion over the sanitation responsibilities and concurrent costs, of which the bulk is for concurrent of different departments. Most of the responsibility for expenditure and this is managed by central government. sanitation rests with the MoWI but the EWURA and the Intergovernmental transfers for local recurrent costs are Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, mostly spent on staff salaries, over which LGAs also have Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) also have roles to little control because the number of staff recruited locally play and this leads to institutional disagreements and their salaries are largely decided by central government The lack of funding and clear policy around sanitation (Venugopal and Yilmaz, 2010). Consequently, local services is primarily because neither central nor local government has limited power to direct its budget towards government perceive sanitation as a priority activity. locally determined development planning priorities. The sector lacks political appeal because there is little LGAs also have very little control over their tax rates, demand from the general public for improved sanitation. the ceiling for which is set by central government and In addition, the MoWI assumes that the urban water and any changes to LGA taxes require the approval of the sanitation authorities can provide sanitation services on PORALG (Venugopal and Yilmaz, 2010). The central a cost-recovery basis, cross-subsidising sanitation services government agency, the Tanzania Revenue Authority with revenue from water services. This means that central (TRA) is charged with collecting simple local taxes, such government does not provide substantial grant funding to as taxes on large businesses and hotels, while LGAs are expand urban sanitation services. responsible for more time intensive revenue collection, National government priorities strongly influence such as business licencing (Kombe and Namangaya, local development and these are channelled to local 2016). LGAs may lack up-to-date databases to collect governments through
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