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    Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved SWM in Addis Ababa, Kolfe Keraniyo Sub City
    (A.A.U, 2022-02-13) Getahun Seid; Adana Tufa (PhD)
    Designing improved solid waste collection service in Addis Ababa city is vital for to improve the quality of life and welfare of the residents. However, households in all sub cities are dissatisfied with the current solid waste collection and the budget gap prevents enhanced solid waste collection service. It is necessary to create an improved solid waste collection system in order to satisfy households and reduce budget gaps in solid waste collection service. This study contributes by introducing an alternative collection service so as to improve solid waste management and to fill the budget gap of the city. This study was undertaken to investigate households’ willingness for new and improved solid waste management in Kolfe Keraniyo Sub-City, Addis Ababa. The study used both cross-sectional survey design and quantitative approach. It also used both secondary and primary data sources. The primary data was collected via questionnaire. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were applied. The Tobit model was applied to analyze the factors influencing households’ willingness to pay decisions for improved solid waste management in Addis Ababa, particularly in Kolfe Keraniyo Sub-City. The results show that households’ willingness to pay for new improved solid waste management in Kolfe Keraniyo Sub-City is significantly influenced by household income, size and age. The result also confirmed that education and number of household members have job were related with households’ willingness to pay. Furthermore, households were on average willingness to pay Birr 31.1 million per month and Birr 373.2 million per year. Among others, the study suggests that in order to fix the price for the improved urban household solid waste collection service the municipality could use mean and maximum willingness to pay fee to charge on every low income and every high-income households, respectively. So that the municipal agency will improve households’ solid waste collection service and narrow the budget gap.