| SNo | Date | Event |
| 1. | 1950s | Makongo is a Greek-owned sisal estate which collapsed in the 1950s and the area started to be occupied haphazardly by former workers in the sisal estate and by land seekers mainly for agriculture. |
| 2. | 1968 | 1968 Dar Master Plan designates Makongo Juu a greenbelt to be put to non-urban uses including agriculture. Overall, 1968 Plan not implemented. Informal occupation of land continues. |
| 3. | 1974-76 | National Villagisation Programme. Makongo Juu used as a resettlement village and land allocation now effected by local leaders. No land use plan for the area. |
| 4. | 1979 | 1979 Dar es Salaam Master plan upholds Makongo Juu’s status as a greenbelt. Informal land transactions continue unabated. |
| 5. | 1985 | Makongo changed to a planning (i.e. an urban) area whose development was to be regulated, but no serious land use planning action undertaken. Informal occupation and development of land continues. |
| 6. | 1991 | Ministry of Lands prepares a detailed land use plan for Makongo Juu, which people reject and request the Minister to allow them to prepare their own, a request which the Minister granted in 1992 ( |
| 7. | 1992 | Makongo Juu residents hire a consultant to prepare a land use plan for the area suitable for residents’ needs as well as meeting the necessary requirements by public authorities. A Draft Plan ready in 1995 but keeps on being ping-ponged between local government authorities/Ministry of Lands and the community till 1999 when a final draft was submitted but approval has never been given. Unplanned land development continued unabated. Some parcels got surveyed and even titled, but without a general land use framework for the whole settlement. |
| 8. | 1995 | Makongo Juu Development Association (MAJUDEA) formed, whose aim was to mobilize members and resources to contribute towards infrastructure, services, land use planning and environmental management. This period saw the formation of many area based development associations in the country in general and in Dar es Salaam in particular, to mobilize resources to fill in the gap left by public authorities. By 2012 however, MAJUDEA was no longer functioning. |
| 9. | 2012 | Ministry of Lands proposed another detailed land use plan to convert Makongo Juu into a Beverly Hills of some sorts, according to the Minister. The plan included a financial facility whereby the Ministry would obtain a commercial loan to be repaid by landowners through a Betterment Levy. The Minister was no doubt riding on the wave of the success of the 20,000 Plots Project (Kironde, 2011, 2015). Both the proposed detailed land use plan, which implied demolitions (and worries about compensation), as well as the levy, scared the landowners who marshaled public opinion against it. |
| 10. | 2015 | A new Minister for Lands meets Makongo Juu landowners and grants them the freedom to proceed with their own land use plan. |
| 11. | 2015 | A 20-member local formalization committee known as Kamati ya Uboreshaji wa Makazi ya Makongo Juu (KAUMAMA) was elected to work with Mtaa government, the land owners, the Ministry of Lands and the Kinondoni Municipal Council, to mobilize resources, and to ensure that the settlement is planned and land parcels titled, in a participatory manner. |
| 12. | 2016 | Proposed town planning layouts endorsed by landholders, followed by scrutiny and endorsement by the Kinondoni Municipal Council and the Regional Administration. |
| 13. | 2017 | Land use layout plans for Makongo Juu approved by Ministry of Lands. |
| 14. | 2018 | KAUMAMA hands over planned Makongo Juu land use layouts and other data to the Mtaa Government for continued development control and land management. |