Tuesday, January 1, 2013

QN: In most cases, the need exceeds the capacity of the government to collaborate with rural community on accessin quality houses. in the light of this statement, discuss the measures to be considered so as to access quality houses for the rural community in Tanzania.

  


TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.      Introduction……………………………………………………………………. page 1
1.1  Overview………………………………………………………………page 1
1.2  Definition of key terms………………...………………………………page 1
2.      Measures to take in quality houses in rural areas…………………………….page 2-4
3.      Conclusion…………………………..………………………………………….page 4
4.      References:-
INTRODUCTION:
OVERVIEW
The rural housing may be of different types depending on how the rural people have been prepared themselves to build quality houses in order to live in good environment, that means the people in rural places are likely to build poor houses because of some circumstances like the cost of building materials, the situation where the system is delaying to construct good infrastructures in order to enable the transportation of people from rural areas to urban and making sure there is proper linkage between people from rural to those who are in urban, In other ways we can say that it is true that the more the needs of rural community exceeds is the more our government increases the capacity of working and dealing with the issues that are facing the people in these rural community.
Definition of key terms;
Government, is the system where there is administrative organs that are dealing with organizing, planning and general supervision and well committed management of different issues in the state, for example there is the government of Tanzania, the government of Kenya, the government of Malawi, then also the government can be defined as the broadly administrative organization with authority to govern the political state or is the means by which state policy is enforced as well as the state, (http://en.wikipedia/definegovernment)  
Community, The term community is very loosely used, it is given different interpretation and used differently, in the casual talks the people often use the term community to refer to casual community, or religion, national community or caste community, But the term community may defined as a group of people with some degree of we feelings, Also the community may defined as any circle of people who live together and belong together in a such away they do not share this or that particular interest But a whole set of interests, C. N Shankar rao 2000.
Rural community, this refers to the group of people who are dwelling in the rural places that means the places with no good social services then always these places are in the interior places compared to urban centers. 
Quality houses, These are houses that have the good looking in other way we can term these houses as the permanent houses that are built in proper means. It is true that in most cases the need exceeds the capacity of the government to collaborate with rural community; In the light of this statement the following are the measures that have to be considered so as to access quality houses for the rural community in our country.
Capacity building in agriculture, the more emphasis should be taken in training or promoting new technology of agriculture such as using tractors, power tillers so that they can produce more and save for households consumption so that they can use such benefits to build quality houses, for example a farmer may harvest a lot of production but when he or she got some of the benefits is where he or she can build a quality house.
Enactment of analytical policies, Government should impart extra effort modifying and reviewing available policies concerning rural housing and general making of policies related to rural housing needs among the community either on reducing costs of buildings or public one private employments at large in rural areas levels, these includes
Outsourcing of available resources, the difference in owning properties other people have enough resources like lands, livestock’s but they lack the knowledge on how to utilize them accordingly, Therefore out resourcing of available resources to the people in rural areas is very important not only that but also advocacy training on how to use effectively the available resources should be a continuous process.
Then also the issue of access to credits or loans from financial institution under the less qualifications and other loan returns, this could help the people in those rural places t build quality houses just because of the ability they have after being the loans beneficiary, for example we know that many people are not building the good houses just because of lack of funds that enable them to build good houses. A strong strategy and policy should be stated by the government to help the people living in rural areas through provision of reliefs’ opportunity in accessing loans or credits of house building.
Another issue is the issue of building permits, these permits are at high cost from the government that means in other ways the management within the government should discuss on how to make sure that the permits are found with cheap costs so that to make the matter to be very much affordable by all people within the rural community, For example a building permit is sold at 20,000 Tanzania shillings this is making the people of rural community to avoid building quality houses.
Reducing the amount of the paid taxes to the government, that means the higher management should look upon the issue of decreasing the costs that are paid for buildings hence this makes rural community to escape in building good houses just because they had to pay to the special revenue agency for example the Tanzanians shall go to pay these payments to Tanzania Revenue Authority.
Improve social services; the government should make sure that the social services are well found in these rural communities these social needs are like safe water, electricity, hospitals and other health centers, good roads, the presence of economical and financial institution hence this will help people to be very much attracted by the environment in such a way that they can go to those rural community and they will build quality houses in these areas, for example the person may need to build his or her settlements at the place where there is quality and affordable social services, Then also even these rural people will go to produce because they are healthy and they cannot produce if they are sick under the absence of the special place where they can get treatments.
Proper linkage between rural communities and urban centers, this will easy the process of accessing building materials, That means these rural communities are not building quality houses just because there is difficulties in the general transportation of materials from urban to their dwelling places, The proper linkage may be through the construction of roads that are permanent throughout the year, in other way there must be well planned transport system in order to easy the transport of materials so there must be good infrastructure not only that but also people in the rural areas should be encouraged on exposure look on others people buildings to gain experience on how to build a quality houses.
Then also there must be housing education, these rural communities sometimes they don’t know the benefits of building quality houses, that means education should be promoted to these rural communities in order to make an emphasis which can help these rural communities to build quality houses. To facilitate this at large also rural people should be emphasized much to undergo further on vocational and entrepreneurship education.
Remove or eradicate the wrong beliefs; the government and other religious groups could help in general removal of local beliefs in these rural communities in such a way that there are some of the beliefs that when one can build quality house in rural areas is going to die, That means the people from rural places were afraiding to build good houses just because they are escaping the death.
Conclusion;
Quality houses are among of the indicators of development that means the rural communities are supposed to build quality houses in order to put them and their placed as developed, hence normally quality houses can increase the capacity of our government to send some of the social services like electricity, quality roads, safe water and other services. But more emphasis is on government collaborating fully with National Housing Co-operation to take both modification and initiating building of quality houses in affordable prices in urban and rural areas.
 References:
C.N Shankar rao (2000), Principles of sociology with an introduction to social thought, S Chand
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http://www.wikipedia.org/rural-houses/13December2012/20:30pm
                              
 
  WRITTEN BY BIKOMBO Et all (TEKU UNIVERSITY)

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