East Africa’s Policy and Stakeholder Integration of Informal Operators in Electric Mobility Transitions—Kigali, Nairobi, Kisumu and Dar es Salaam

Electric mobility is beginning to enter East African cities. This paper aims to investigate what policy-level solutions and stakeholder constellations are established in the context of electric mobility (e-mobility) in Dar es Salaam, Kigali, Kisumu and Nairobi and in which ways they attempt to tackle the implementation of electric mobility solutions. The study employs two key methods including content analysis of policy and programmatic documents and interviews based on a purposive sampling approach with stakeholders involved in mobility transitions. The study findings point out that in spite of the growing number of policies (specifically in Rwanda and Kenya) and on-the-ground developments, a set of financial and technical barriers persists. These include high upfront investment costs in vehicles and infrastructure, as well as perceived lack of competitiveness with fossil fuel vehicles that constrain the uptake of e-mobility initiatives. The study further indicates that transport operators and their representative associations are less recognized as major players in the transition, far behind new e-mobility players (start-ups) and public authorities. This study concludes by identifying current gaps that need to be tackled by policymakers and stakeholders in order to implement inclusive electric mobility in East African cities, considering modalities that include transport providers and address their financial constraints.

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Electric Mobility in East-AfricA: How the Policy and Stakeholder Environment Tackles the Integration of Informal Transport Systems Into Low-Carbon Transition – Case Studies From Kigali, Kisumu, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam

10.20944/preprints202101.0029.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jakub Galuszka ◽

Emilie Martin ◽

Alphonse Nkurunziza ◽

Judith Achieng' Oginga ◽

Jacqueline Senyagwa ◽

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Keyword(s):

Fossil Fuel ◽

Dar Es Salaam ◽

Electric Mobility ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Low Carbon ◽

East African ◽

Public Authorities ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Start Ups ◽

Stakeholder Environment

Electric mobility begins to enter East-African markets. This paper aims to investigate what policy level solutions and stakeholder constellations are established in the context of e-mobility in Dar es Salaam, Kigali, Kisumu and Nairobi and in which ways they attempt to tackle implementation of electric mobility solutions. The study employs two key methods including content analysis of policy and programmatic documents as well as interviews based on purposive sampling ap-proach with stakeholders involved in mobility transitions. The study findings point out that transport operators and their representative associations are less recognized as major players in the transition, far behind new e-mobility players (start-ups) and public authorities. The study further indicates that a set of financial and technical barriers persist such as high upfront invest-ment costs in vehicles and infrastructure, or anxieties regarding competitiveness with fossil fuel vehicles, that constrain the uptake of such private e-mobility initiatives. This study concludes by identifying current gaps that need to be tackled by policy makers and stakeholders in order to implement inclusive electric mobility in East-African cities, considering modalities that include transport providers and address their financial constraints.

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Patience and action pays: a comparative analysis of WSS reforms in three East African cities

Water Policy ◽

10.2166/wp.2010.034 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 654-674 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Silver Mugisha ◽

Ato Brown

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Water Supply ◽

Success Factors ◽

Capacity Development ◽

Dar Es Salaam ◽

Political Support ◽

East African ◽

Improve Performance ◽

Capital Cities ◽

African Cities

There have been significant efforts in the last 15 years to improve performance in water supply and sewerage services (WSS) operations of most cities in Africa. This has called for a number of reforms. WSS utilities in the three East African capital cities have been among the list that has undertaken such reform. Consequently, a number of legislative, institutional and managerial reforms, all aimed at creating good enabling environments to drive performance, have been undertaken. This paper outlines some of these reforms in WSS operations of the three capital cities of Kampala, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. We present, amongst other things, the key reform drivers, reforms undertaken, achievements and underlying success factors. We conclude that there is need to synergise the use of incentives, strong leadership, managerial autonomy and accountability as important buttresses for successful reforms. In doing all this, political support and, indeed, support from other stakeholders is important. We also note that reforms need time, adequate stakeholder mapping and incorporation of significant local capacity development to be fully effective.

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BOOK REVIEW: Spear, Thomas, and Isaria N. Kimambo, eds. EAST AFRICAN EXPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY. East African Studies series. Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Nairobi: EAEP; Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999.

Africa Today ◽

10.2979/aft.2000.47.1.155 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 155-157

Author(s):

Peter Pels

Keyword(s):

Dar Es Salaam ◽

African Studies ◽

Ohio University ◽

East African

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Taken for a Ride

10.1093/oso/9780198794240.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Matteo Rizzo

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Dar Es Salaam ◽

Structural Constraints ◽

Urban Informality ◽

African Cities ◽

Political Interests ◽

Contextual Understanding ◽

Informal Economies ◽

Political Economy Analysis ◽

Analytical Power

The chapter starts by describing public transport in Dar es Salaam as ‘functional chaos’. It then critically reviews two thematic literatures, on African cities and on their informal economies, to reveal that references to chaos, dystopia, and their opposites, order and functionalism, are common. The key argument is that a highly contextual understanding of urban informality and of how African cities work is required to avoid overly deterministic structural accounts and romantic celebration of African agency without due attention to structural constraints. The chapter presents the book’s approach: namely a political-economy analysis, centred on class analysis and wary of automatically reading off the political interests of actors from their class position. It argues that neoliberalism and post-socialism are key to understanding Tanzania and public transport in Dar es Salaam, and calls for grounding ‘actually existing neoliberalism’ in a particular context while retaining the analytical power of the concept of neoliberalism.

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Morphological features of Kiswahili youth language(s): Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Goma, Lubumbashi and Nairobi

Linguistics Vanguard ◽

10.1515/lingvan-2019-0034 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (s4) ◽

Author(s):

Nico Nassenstein ◽

Paulin Baraka Bose

Keyword(s):

Urban Youth ◽

Structural Features ◽

Dar Es Salaam ◽

Morphological Features ◽

East African ◽

Verbal Morphology ◽

Dr Congo ◽

Identity Constructions ◽

Youth Language

Abstract Since the late 1980s, linguists’ analyses of Sheng, the urban youth language from Nairobi, have led to the growth of a considerable body of literature. In contrast, only a few studies are available that cover other youth registers from the Kiswahili-speaking parts of Africa. While most of the available studies either deal with techniques of manipulation or with adolescents’ identity constructions, our paper intends to give a comparative overview of specific morphological features of Kiswahili-based youth languages. While certain characteristics of Sheng (Nairobi/Kenya), Lugha ya Mitaani (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania), Kindubile (Lubumbashi/DR Congo) and Yabacrâne (Goma/DR Congo) largely diverge from East Coast Swahili (hereafter ECS) in regard to their nominal and verbal morphology, they all share specific features. Focusing on (apparent) supra-regional developments and changes in Kiswahili, this preliminary description of some structural features that transcend all four youth language practices aims to provide comparative insights into urban register variation, approaching East African youth languages from a micro-typological perspective.

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