Some authors (Liyala 2011; Oberlin 2011; Tukahirwa 2011) identify common causes for poor
waste management services as the inadequate policy and legislation, lack of political will,
lack of public commitment, lack of technical capacity, poor financing. A different group of
authors think it is seldom technical (Scheinberg 2011) but rather politics, economics or
institution (Wilson et al., 2010)