Environmental Policy and Solid waste management. A case of Lodwar Municipality,Turkana County, Kenya
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Date
2023
Authors
Logiel, Lokwawi Samson
Muna, Wilson
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Cari Journals
Abstract
Purpose: The formulation of Environment Policy 2018 of Turkana County is based on the
requirement by the (Constitution of Kenya; 2010 and the County Governments Act, 2013) which
gives powers to the county government to formulate policies and enact laws. It is this provision
that Turkana County sort to formulate policy to address the management of waste in Lodwar
municipality and its environment. The purpose of this article was to determine the influence of the
Environmental Policy on Solid waste management in a case of Lodwar Municipality, Turkana
County, Kenya. The objectives of the study were; To establish impact of private-public partnership
on sustainable waste management in Lodwar Municipality, Turkana County; To assess the impact
of political good will on solid waste management in Lodwar Municipality, Turkana County; To
determine adoption of emission-reducing technologies on solid management in Lodwar
municipality, Turkana county and to assess the level of integration of environmental policy with
socio-economic policies to boost solid waste management in Lodwar Municipality, Turkana
County, Kenya.
Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study design was adopted to target residents of
Lodwar town, management and municipal workers, traders, fisherfolks, county National
Environment Management Authority officers and public health department officers at the county
level. Furthermore, the descriptive research design was employed and utilized structured and semi
structure questionnaires. Out of the population of 110 target groups the sample size used for the
study was 33 as stated by Mugenda and Mugenda 2008 that when a population is below 10000 the
sample size should be 10% or 30% of the target population hence 30% was ideal for the study. The
quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed using frequencies, percentages, mean scores, and
content thematic respectively Findings: The findings of the study indicated that, there were no monitoring framework in place
to determine the effectiveness of the policy, lack of awareness of existence of the policy amongst
the municipality employees, lack of political good will and lack of waste regulating system.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: In this regard, the study recommends the
need for municipality to establish monitoring system to measure the effectiveness of the
environmental policy in addressing the solid waste management issues; there was need of the
county government to provide enough resources to support the strategies lied by the policies for
environmental sustainability; The community members , municipality and county government
staff need to be sensitized on the existence of the environmental policy; a legal framework ought
to be developed to provide the regulatory and fiscal instruments needed to achieve Turkana
environment policy objectives.
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Keywords
Solid waste, municipality, environment policy, integration
Citation
Samson, L. L. ., & Muna, W. M. (2023). Environmental Policy and Solid waste management. A case of Lodwar Municipality, Turkana County, Kenya. Journal of Environment, 3(1), 55–76. https://doi.org/10.47941/je.1231