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Impact of Public Participation in Decision Making in Local Government in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author MWANGAKALA, Sania,A.
dc.date.accessioned 2025-03-05T10:51:02Z
dc.date.available 2025-03-05T10:51:02Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.iaa.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2894
dc.description Supervisor..Dr.MBUTI, Elias en_US
dc.description.abstract Public participation is used in making decision in various institutions and governments. Although public participation has been used in Tanzania particularly in the local government authorities, no enough assessment has been done on the impact of public participation on decision making. This study therefore aimed to investigate the impact of public participation on decision making in district authority of Geita District Council in Tanzania. The study specifically examined the influence of public participation on effectiveness of decision making on the implementation, evaluation and review of decisions made. The study employed mixed approach and convergent parallel design. Sample of 53 from 110 targeted populations from Geita district office was calculated using the Yamane formula and the respondents were sampled using simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Questionnaires and documentary review were used to collect data. The university supervisor and experts will evaluate the content and face validity of the instruments. Reliability of the instruments for collecting quantitative data was tested and it correlated at Cronbach’s coefficient alpha r=0.920 which was greater than 0.75 hence it was reliable. This was confirmed by the reliability of the overall study data which was r=0.976. However, the trustworthiness of instrument for collecting qualitative data was done by ensuring its credibility, transferability, dependability and conformability to ensure that the instruments are fairly reliable for the study. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics in the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20.0 and the results were presented in tables of frequencies and percentages. The study established that public participation leads to effective decision making, it enhances the implementation, evaluation and review of decisions made. The study therefore established the positive impact of public participation on the decision making in local government. The study recommended that local government should conduct public participation before making decisions in order to enhance the effectiveness, implementation, evaluation and review of such decisions. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher IAA en_US
dc.subject DECISION MAKING, LOCAL GOVERNMENT en_US
dc.title Impact of Public Participation in Decision Making in Local Government in Tanzania en_US
dc.title.alternative A case study of Geita district council en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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