Abstract

ABSTRACT This article follows the line of scholarship that treats urban flooding as the object of governance and uses a governance lens to analyse reported evidence of how and why detrimental flooding has persisted in the Msimbazi Valley in urban Dar es Salaam. Guided by the governmentality framework and interactive governance theory, an analysis of primary and secondary data was conducted. The analysis revealed the low motivation and commitment of capable staff and well-resourced administrative departments and units of Ilala and Kinondoni Municipal Councils involved in implementing relevant and appropriate measures to control, prevent and end floods. Since organizational values and principles that are well understood and have been embraced have the potential to reignite and revive individual and group commitment, it is recommended that staff and management teams of Ilala and Kinondoni Municipal Councils relearn their organizational values and/or retool themselves with values and principles that strongly inspire flood-prevention actions.

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