Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: A, Ethiopian Civil Service University (College of Urban Development and Engineering), course: STRATEGIC AND INTEGRATED URBAN MANAGEMENT, language: English, abstract: The paper develops a strategy to address the urban management problem of Hawassa City, Ethiopia. Hawassa is registering high population growth mainly due to rural-urban as well as town-to-town migrations. This population growth resulted in the horizontal expansion of the city and inadequacies of various services that are essential for the society. And these also became bottlenecks for good governance through create urban management problems in the city. Those problems hamper the socio-economic development of the city. Those urban management problems include increment of urban waste generation and inadequacy of proper waste collection and disposal services, lack of pure water supply and insufficiency of job opportunities. The brief discussion of problems, literature review, possible strategies and specific activities to address problems as well as potential stakeholders are presented in the preceding discussion.