| dc.description.abstract | The research intended to establish the socio – economic implications of the displacement of
street vendors by Kampala Capital City Authority. The study was guided by a number of
objectives that is to say; to find out the social implications of displacement of street vendors by
KCCA from Kampala city; to find out the economic implications of displacing street vendors
from the streets of Kampala and to find out how the street vendors cope up with the displacement
in the city.
The study took a survey research design whereby qualitative approach was used while collecting
and analyzing information from the primary and secondary data sources. It was carried out in
Katwe located in the city of Kampala which involved street traders, residents of Kampala and the
local government officers from its divisions.
Street vending business in Kampala involves many people who enter in such kind of business
with different reason which include unemployment, family neglect, business failure, and most of
individuals enter the business for the sake of survival. But as the vending business is conducted
on the street of the city, the society attain congestion on the pathways, the environment becomes
untidy, thieves use such place where vendors operators as avenues of grabbing other people’s
properties, some practitioners sell substandard goods to the customers, poor relations do exist
between vendors and shop attendants, while some vendors also lead to noise in the environment.
The management of KCCA tend to come in and displace street vendors in order to resettle them
in other places with an organize manner such as market centres, reduce on congestion,
marginalise theft on the street, improve on the sanitation levels with a clean and tidy
environment and revenue collections are also enhanced with well settlements that are licensed
and registered with the regulatory authorities. Vendors are normally affected much with the
displacement as they become unemployed, poor standards of living, poverty becomes rampant,
dependency on spouse income increases, migrate to villages to participate agriculture which
results into government loss of popularity, conflicts arouse between vendors and traders under
the management of KACITA.
The study examined the economic implications of displacing street vendors from Kampala city
and findings revealed that unemployment increases as practitioners stay jobless, income
inequality among nationals widens, household income reduces, standards of living become poor,
shop attendants enjoy increased market for their goods, poverty among the local population
increases and corruption grows as vendors try their level best to persuade enforcement officers to
leave them in business.
Vendors cope up with situation after being displaced and findings revealed that abandonment of
their current employment opportunities make them seek for employment in the formal sector,
practitioners become dependents, participation in the agricultural activities increases, joint
ventures are established, rural urban migration becomes the order of the day as others seek for
credit facilities make them financial institutions.
Basing on the findings, different recommendations were drawn which include proper
sensitization, prohibiting vending of certain items, provision of legal licenses, abolition of
vending from some areas among others. | en_US |
