The overall objective of the project is to provide a comprehensive understanding of development dynamics of EUCs in Tanzania and explore how these impacts on the physical and socio- economic transformation of EUCs into urban townships.

Central to the research is to understand governance practices and challenges of these fast growing urban areas characterized by complex in-and out migration and rapid changing economic processes.

Immediate objectives

• To analyse how the forms and roles of institutions (formal and informal) have developed in support of the transformation
• To identify how governance practices (public and private) in relation to land, water and waste management have developed in support of the transformation.
• To identify how the rural-urban connectivity influence markets, business networks and employment creation in the EUC.
• To identify livelihoods and the role of mobility practices in the EUC
• To develop human resource capacity to research on development dynamics of EUCs