The Effectiveness of Institutional Governance in Mitigating the Conflicts between Farmers and Herders in Coastal Regions, Tanzania

The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of institutional governance in mitigating conflicts between farmer and herder in Kilosa and Kilindi Districts. The findings from the study revealed that there was poor effectiveness with respect to power interaction and sharing during the mitigating conflicts between farmer and herder at the study area. The qualitative and quantitative researches were used. The study adopted the Cross-Sectional Research Design.The methods of data collections used were household survey, questionnaire, documentary, key informant interview, focus group discussion and non- participant observation during the data collection. The respondents used to get the information were 88 people in the study. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS Version 21) was used to analyze the data. The factors which contributed the conflicts between the parts such as: population growth, insecure land tenure, policies deficiencies and contradictions. The negative impacts of conflicts between the parts include: loss of lives of people, lack of peace and security and decreased productivity. The study concludes that there were poor effectiveness of institutional governance in mitigating the conflicts between farmer and herder at study area. The study recommends that the effectiveness of the institutional governance should be improved through the power interaction and sharing from the experts, experienced and proper involvements of the disputing parts in conflict mitigating between the parts at the study area.

Conflict Mitigation, Local Governance, Institutional Governance

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