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1. Library Resource

   

   Land Rights: where we are and where we need to go

   Reports & Research

   September, 2005

   Africa

   Land Conflicts

   Land & Gender

   land

   customary tenure

   land dispute

   land rights

   land titling

   landlessness

   women

   Review of the situation of land rights in Apac District and of opportunities for land rights protection work. Examines the 1998 Land Act and its implementation in practice. Finds that the protection clauses for women are proving ineffective. Also looks at the major threats and barriers to land rights and suggests ways forward. Among many other pertinent questions, asks why the Ugandan Government has shown so little interest in customary tenure and why it pursues land titling to the extent it does.

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   Understanding and Strengthening Women’s Land Rights Under Customary Tenure in Uganda

   Reports & Research

   March, 2011

   Uganda, Africa

   Land & Gender

   land

   land rights

   customary tenure

   women

   Includes introduction; vulnerabilities shared among all women; different categories of women have different vulnerabilities – widows, unmarried girls, divorced women, separated women, cohabiting women, married women; proposed solutions. Argues that rather than working against custom, policymakers and activists should be creative in identifying a range of culturally-appropriate solutions within custom that can successfully strengthen, defend and protect women’s land rights.

3. Library Resource

   

   Protecting community lands and resources

   Evidence from Uganda

   Peer-reviewed publication

   January, 2013

   Uganda

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   land

   land access

   land administration

   In northern Uganda, common grazing lands are central to village life. While nominally used for grazing livestock, communities also depend on their grazing lands to collect basic household necessities such as fuel, water, food, building materials for their homes, and traditional medicines. Yet growing population density, increasing land scarcity, weak rule of law, and the 1998 Land Act’s legalization of a land market have created a situation of intense competition for land in northern Uganda.

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   Why is customary protection failing to prevent land grabbing?

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   September, 2009

   Uganda

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land Conflicts

   adjudication

   common property

   customary land rights

   customary law

   customary tenure

   eviction

   land access

   land conflicts

   land dispute

   land grabbing

   The protection given to the land rights of women, orphans and any other vulnerable groups in Northern and Eastern Uganda is probably as good as can be found anywhere in the world. Customary land law is based on three main principles. First, everyone is entitled to land, and no-one can ever be denied land rights. A second principle is that all inherited land is family land, never individual property.

5. Library Resource

   

   Does customary tenure have a role in modern economic development?

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   October, 2010

   Uganda

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   agrarian reform

   common property

   customary land rights

   customary law

   customary tenure

   land

   land administration

   Over 80% of all land in Uganda is held under unregistered ‘customary tenure’. This means that it is private property, but the owners need no documents to prove ownership. Their claims to the land, and the boundaries of the land, are locally recognised, and this recognition is given the full protection of State law.

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   COMMUNITY LAND JUSTICE IN UGANDA

   TOWARDS MEANINGFUL HARMONISATION

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   July, 2014

   Uganda

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   adjudication

   advocacy

   co-ownership rights

   indigenous peoples' land rights

   land

   land administration

   Uganda’s northern region was traditionally inhabited by communities with predominantly pastoral lifestyles. As the country began developing administrative structures in the region, most clans found themselves settled into agro-pastoral communities. The elders found it imperative to demarcate areas of land to fit different uses, with areas for family settlement and cultivation clearly separated from other areas for communal use. Land was either demarcated by the leaders of a particular settlement or by the dominant clan for the benefit of everyone else in that area.

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   Women's Land Rights and customary tenure in Uganda

   A contribution from the Land and Equity Movement (LEMU) for the on-line discussion "How can women's land rights be secured?"

   Reports & Research

   January, 2010

   Uganda

   women

   land rights

   legal empowerment

   gender equity in access to land

   Judy Adoko, Executive Director at the Land and Equity Movement (LEMU, Uganda) sent us a set of documents as a contribution for the on-line discussion "How can women's land rights be secured?".

   You can find the following documents below, in attachment: