**2.3 Initiatives taken by informal settlements to manage waste management in Masvingo City**

The people in the informal settlements in the city of Masvingo are trying to do whatever they can to create better living conditions in areas they are stay. They are employing various initiatives to clean their areas and these initiatives which include burning of waste, recycling material or just heaping waste outside their working spaces. **Figures 2**–**4** show some of the ways that the people in the informal settlements were using to manage their waste.

**Figure 2.** *Burning of waste at Garikai informal settlement.*
