Njawa Dismas Robert2025-09-082025-09-082009https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/6963DissertationCommunity participation is active and genuine involvement by community in defining issues of concern to them, deciding priorities for action, formulating policies to address them, designing plans, implementing, managing and monitoring solutions and evaluating outcome. Good community participation starts in the early stages of life during which individuals children develop the skills and knowledge necessary to function within their culture and environment. This study explores achievement made in using community participatory approach to children hawkers in Morogoro Municipality. Specific objectives were to determine the main socioeconomic aspect of community participatory approach to support children petty hawkers, to investigate factors for increase on number of children petty vendors and to determine socio-economic condition that may lead to the reducing of children petty hawkers. The study was carried out in Morogoro Municipality. A cross sectional design was adopted. A representative sample of 100 respondents was drawn from a sampling frame. The SPSS was used for data analysis. The study shows that there is an effect over lack of community participation in children petty hawkers. Children who engage in business lack community care. The children petty hawkers develop a deviant behavior which leads the community not to care for their social services needs. This makes the children develop a group of their own age with a unique behaviour. The study shows that the major forces for the community participation failing to help children are due break of down moral and copying western style life. It also shows that the major forces for the children to engage in petty business are the breakdown of the family, death of the parents, peer group pressure and poverty. The study recommends that there is a need to have a comprehensive and implementation policy on the community and family and how to empower these families economically and morally.enImproving communityVulnerable childrenPetty hawkersMorogoro municipalityImproving childrenThesis