Survival Of The Urban Poor In Nabutiti Neighbourhood In Kansanga Ward In Kampala City

This study was conducted to explore the survival of the urban poor in Nabutiti neighbourhood in Kansanga ward in Kampala City. This was after the realisation that the liberalisation of the economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the rapid urbanisation of Kampala City had left tens of thousands of the city residents in squalid conditions where abject and absolute poverty rule with services going mainly to paying clients following the withdrawal of the state as the principal actor.

The study specifically sought to achieve the following objective: to find out how the urban poor survive in Nabutiti neighbourhood. To achieve the stated objective, the study was guided by the following research question: how do the urban poor survive in Nabutiti neighbourhood?