Wilbard Kombe

Dados Biográficos

ID1341175
NOMEWilbard Kombe
PRENOMESWilbard
SOBRENOMEKombe
ASSINATURAKOMBE W
AFILIAÇÕESArdhi University
ORCID0000-0001-9117-9496
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS31
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES103
TOTAL COMO AUTOR31
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2000
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Untapped social protection pathways for flood resilience in informal settlements of Dar Es Salaam

    Open AccessSalua Haji Othman, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2026

    Floods are persistent in urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. The region has limited resilience capacity to floods, making it more vulnerable to climate change shocks. Social protection programs are climate-resilience development initiatives for low-income and vulnerable households. However, the specific context in Sub-Saharan Africa makes formal social protection programs far from being accessible to all. Moreover, the theoretical frameworks have …

  • Women and land ownership in peri-urban Dar es Salaam – land policy reforms and cultural facades

    Said Nuhu, Neema Emanuel Macha et al.ARTICLEOxford Development Studies2026

    Women’s land ownership remains a contemporary discourse in scholarship, especially from Sub-Saharan African countries. Using the case of peri-urban areas of Dar es Salaam, this study explores the disconnect between land policy reforms and culture, underscoring their contrasting forces in redefining the reality concerning women’s land ownership. A mixed-methods case study design employing structured questionnaires, in-depth interviews, focus group…

  • Formality in Policy, Informality in Practice

    Open AccessNeema Munuo, Daniel Msangi et al.ARTICLEUrban Forum2026

  • Satisfaction of female-headed households on state-led resettlement housing in Kigali

    Open AccessTharcille Dukuzemariya, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2025

    Female-headed households (FHHs) constitute a heterogeneous social group with diverse resettlement housing needs, expectations, and aspirations. This study intends to expand knowledge on resettlement housing schemes using a gender lens. However, it goes further to unpack FHHs because women have different needs, and little is known about how these needs influence their housing satisfaction. Using a qualitative case study approach, this study invest…

  • Peri-urbanization and smallholder farmers’ socio-economic marginality in peri-urban Addis Ababa

    Open AccessGirma Mulu Alemu, Sophie Schramm et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2025

    This article explores the impacts of peri-urbanization on smallholder farmers’ socio-economic conditions in peri-urban Addis Ababa using the Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) and marginality lenses. A qualitative research approach was used to collect data, where in-depth and key informant interviews, focus group discussions (FGD), field observations and GIS were employed. Published articles, legal documents and government reports were also r…

  • Social protection initiatives for low-income populations in building climate change resilience in sub-saharan Africa

    Salua Haji Othman, Tatu Mtwangi Limbumba et al.ARTICLELocal Environment2025

    Social protection initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa have been central to the debate on climate change resilience by development practitioners. The concern is that climate change is detrimental to the development agenda which requires social protection initiatives to reduce increasing exposures among the low-income population due to their absence of resilience-building measures However, there is limited scholarship on social protection and climate…

  • Fostering Neighbourhood Social–Ecological Resilience Through Land Readjustment in Rapidly Urbanising Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJohn Mugisha, Ernest Uwayezu et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2025Referências: 7

    Rapid urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa demands innovative land management strategies that promote sustainable, inclusive, and resilient urban development. This study investigates the potential of land readjustment (LR) to foster neighbourhood-scale social–ecological urban resilience (SEUR) through a case study of the Nunga LR project in Kigali, Rwanda. Grounded in the social–ecological system (SES) theory and operationalised through the social–…

  • Self-Organized Social and Physical Livelihood Assets in State-Driven Urban Developments

    Richard Besha, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLEDesign and Culture2025Referências: 7

    In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, local actors through self-organized practices that contribute to livelihoods generate the lived space amidst top-down processes in commercial streets. We employed a design anthropological approach in studying how inhabitants create, use and thrive in these spaces. We analyze and discuss the social and physical assets of commercial streets in the context of planned neighborhoods that are governed by regulations. We reve…

  • Reframing urban development politics

    Open AccessJennifer Robinson, Philip Harrison et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2025Citada por: 2Referências: 77

    This paper develops the idea of transcalarity to reframe analyses of urban development politics. Our analysis starts from African contexts but is relevant to, and in conversation with, experiences on other continents. Accounts of the politics of urban development have rarely benefitted from the experiences of African urban settings. Characterised by relatively weakly resourced municipalities, informality of the urban setting and of the state, and…

  • The power of place-based Future Visioning

    Open AccessThaisa Cristina Comelli, Thaisa Comelli et al.ARTICLECities2025Referências: 6

  • Density as Threshold and Resource

    Open AccessColin Mcfarlane, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2025Referências: 23

    Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly urbanizing, producing new geographies of densification and sprawl. Amidst the debate about the current and future patterns of informal urbanization, the ways in which residents perceive and experience urban densities have been largely absent. We argue for the value of attending to how residents encounter and interpret densities, including what this approach reveals for research in geography and urban studi…

  • Solid Waste Collection in the Informal Settlements of African Cities

    Open AccessFlorence Muheirwe, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLEUrban Forum2024

  • Digesting how the gender of household heads determines housing location choices in Sub-Saharan African cities

    Moses Batanda Mubiru, Said Nuhu et al.ARTICLEGender Place & Culture2024

    Our study reviews critical social science and policy literature on human settlement research. It examines how the gender of household heads determines housing location preferences in Sub-Saharan African cities. Five themes are obtained from the review: circumstances under which household headships emerge, household fundamental gender roles, interaction with the local property market, power relations and gender in social networks, as well as diffe…

  • Housing pathways of female-headed households in the informal settlements of Kampala

    Moses Batanda Mubiru, Said Nuhu et al.ARTICLEHousing Studies2024Referências: 80

    The number of female-headed households migrating into cities is increasing. Female-headed households compete for limited housing options with other households with varying socio-economic capacities. As a result, women have to choose from several housing pathways, utilising available social capital that occasionally covers inadequate financial resources. This may sometimes lead to social conflict and exploitation by landlords and brokers. This art…

  • Enabling planned urban settlements through land readjustment - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda

    Open AccessJohn Mugisha, Ernest Uwayezu et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2024Citada por: 2Referências: 22

  • Negotiating Urban Development in Africa

    Open AccessSylvia Croese, Wilbard KombeARTICLEDevelopment and Change2024Citada por: 2Referências: 50

    This article brings together recent debates in urban and development studies to illuminate the understudied politics and compromise involved in the rollout of globally funded urban development in Africa. The argument presented builds on a detailed analysis of the World Bank's urban development portfolio in Tanzania, with a specific focus on the Dar es Salaam Metro-politan Development Project, to draw attention to the disjuncture between rising ur…

  • Uncovering ‘sleeping beauty’

    Open AccessJohn Mugisha, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2023

    Land readjustment offers opportunities for addressing challenges related to rapid urbanisation but is rarely used in practice, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This situation has led some researchers to refer to the untapped potential as “sleeping beauty”. Through a narrative review, this study analyses the self-financing potential of land readjustment and the implications for its application in sub-Saharan Africa. The results show that governme…

  • Persistent, pragmatic and prolific

    Open AccessSylvia Croese, Jennifer Robinson et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2023Citada por: 2Referências: 31

    This paper interrogates the persistence of urban master planning in African cities. Critiques of master planning in Africa label it as a stifling product of colonial legacies, an inappropriate imposition of external ideas, or a device to achieve the goals of global actors, all seen as being at odds with the rapidly changing settlement patterns and needs of many African urban contexts. This paper instead focuses on the role of local planning actor…

  • Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 Partial Lockdown in Tanzania

    Open AccessWilbard Kombe, Alphonce G Kyessi et al.ARTICLEUrbanisation2022

    This article aims to understand grassroots responses to COVID-19 and how they impacted the well-being of low-income informal communities in Dar es Salaam. An exploratory qualitative research design, using semi-structured questionnaires, was adopted for use in Ubungo Kisiwani and Hanna Nassif settlements. Focus group discussions with select members of the community, including women’s groups, and mtaa (sub-ward) and ten-cell leaders, were held. The…

  • How co-production contributes to urban equality

    Open AccessWilbard Kombe, Alphonce Kyessi et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization2022Citada por: 4Referências: 10

    Despite varying conceptions of what co-production entails, there is a growing consensus in research, practice and public policy discourse that co-production is a preferred strategy for leveraging resources to deliver basic infrastructure services in low-income settlements. Using largely qualitative data, this paper explores the adaption of co-production in the low-income settlement of Hanna Nassif in Dar es Salaam, implemented 20 years ago by sta…

  • Women-headed households and housing location preferences in the informal settlements

    Open AccessMoses Batanda Mubiru, Said Nuhu et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2022Referências: 43

  • The paradox of solid waste management

    Open AccessFlorence Muheirwe, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2022Citada por: 3Referências: 50

  • Experiences of private firms in delivering land services in peri-urban areas in Tanzania

    Open AccessSaid Nuhu, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLEInternational Planning Studies2021

    Demand for land planning and surveying services has increased significantly over the years in Tanzania and as a result, the public sector has not been able to cope. Private firms have therefore emerged to provide land use planning and surveying services for landholders in peri-urban areas, most of whom have accessed land through the informal sector. This paper explores the experiences of private firms in delivering land use planning and surveying…

  • Dynamics of the Nature and Value of Urban Agriculture in Arusha City, Tanzania

    Open AccessPastory Salvatory Thomas, Wilbard Kombe et al.ARTICLECurrent Urban Studies2021

    In the near future, urban agriculture will not be the same as it was in the past or as it is at present. The different forms and context at which agricultural activities take place can have different effects on the value of urban agriculture. Information about the actual ideal place where urban agriculture has to be done and about the exact of value of urban agriculture is implicit. This study examines the factors that characterise the change of …

  • Informal land investments and wealth accumulation in the context of regularization

    Open AccessManja Hoppe Andreasen, Gordon Mcgranahan et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization2020Citada por: 9Referências: 6

    Between half and three-quarters of new housing development in African cities has been taking place on land acquired through informal channels. This paper offers insights from a study of self-builders’ investments in informal land and housing in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, two of the largest and fastest-growing cities in Tanzania. The findings demonstrate that self-builders’ investments in informal land and self-built housing are inextricably linked…