Groundwater users’ awareness of water institutions in Tanzania: A case study of Mbarali District, Mbeya Region

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dc.contributor.authorGudaga, J. L
dc.contributor.authorKabote, S. J.
dc.contributor.authorTarimo, A. K. P. R.
dc.contributor.authorMosha, D. B.
dc.contributor.authorKashaigili, J. J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-10T09:48:52Z
dc.date.available2018-04-10T09:48:52Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-30
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines awareness of groundwater formal and informal institutions among water users. The paper adopted sequential exploratory research design to collect quantitative and qualitative data. The sample size was 90 groundwater users, and 50% were women. Descriptive statistics, Kruskal Wallis H Test and Mann Whitney U Test were used to analyze quantitative data while qualitative data were subjected to content analysis. The results show that 50% of the respondents showed average awareness of formal institutions whereas 70 and 57.7% showed high awareness of norms and values respectively. In addition, the results showed statistically significant difference on the extent of respondents’ awareness of water institutions (P=0.001) among low, medium and high categories. Furthermore, there was no significant difference on awareness of formal institutions between male and female respondents (P=0.403). The paper concludes high groundwater users’ awareness of informal institutions including norms and values than formal institutions mainly rules and regulations particularly Water Resource Management Acts. Therefore, the paper recommends endeavours to raise awareness of formal institutions at a local level because awareness of formal and informal institutions is equally important for groundwater governance.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNoneen_US
dc.identifier.issn2141-2189
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/2076
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of African Studies and Developmenten_US
dc.subjectWater usersen_US
dc.subjectInformal institutionsen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectGroundwateren_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectFormal institutionsen_US
dc.titleGroundwater users’ awareness of water institutions in Tanzania: A case study of Mbarali District, Mbeya Regionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.urlhttp://www.academicjournals.org/journal/JASDen_US

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