Kigamboni Municipality is situated along the coast of the Indian Ocean and it is one of 5 municipal councils of Dar es Salaam City, one of the fast-growing cities in Africa. Owing to its proximity to the city centre, the Kigamboni area is also rapidly transforming.
The main economic activities in this district include petty-trading, subsistence rain-fed farming, and fishing. However, rapid land transformation is taking place at the expense of forest, marshy areas and grasslands, as well as overexploitation of fishing resources.
Immigration of affluent people and out-migration of indigenous landowners forced to sell their land and move further to the peri-urban areas because of urban expansion and need of agriculture land. This migration has led to a rapidly transforming settlement in the periphery of the municipality, where the adoption of adaptation measures is challenged by poverty, limited capability to perceive climate risk and to interpret sector-specific climate information.
Kigamboni District Hub, Tanzania
Kigamboni, Tanzania
- Region: South Eastern Africa
- Climate: Tropical wet-dry or Savanna (Aw)
Kigamboni District Hub, Tanzania
- Region: South Eastern Africa
- Climate: Tropical wet-dry or Savanna (Aw)