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ANALYSIS OF POST CONFLICT LAND POLICY AND LAND ADMINISTRATION

A SURVEY OF IDP RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT ISSUES AND LESSON: ACHOLI AND LANGO REGIONS

Reports & Research
February, 2008
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
advocacy
common property
community land rights
customary law
displacement
indigenous peoples' lands
land
land administration
land dispute resolution
This is the second in a series of land studies for northern Uganda, whose core objective is to inform the Plan for Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda (PRDP) and the National Land Policy. It builds on the work of the first phase conducted in Teso region to present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes and claims on land before displacement, during displacement and emerging trends or occurrences on return for Acholi and Lango sub-regions.
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Contestation, Confusion and Corruption: Market-Based Land Reform in Zambia

Reports & Research
November, 2005
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Investments
land
land administration
displacement
land speculation
land reform
corruption
Following introductory historical sections, paper focuses on the impact of land-market reform at the village level – including the extent of conversions, conversions for elites, land speculation, displacement, enclosures, conflict and resistance – and on the (mal)administration of land. Concludes that the benefits of market-based land reform have accrued to local elites and outside investors. Land administration has proved highly malleable and is subject to perversion by local elites, traditional rulers, outside investors, and government officials.
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Land or Else

Land-Based Conflict, Vulnerability, and Disintegration in Northern Uganda

Reports & Research
October, 2010
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
common property
customary land rights
customary tenure
displacement
indigenous peoples' land rights
land
land administration
land governance
Northern Uganda is the scene of one of the world’s most volatile and spontaneous processes of reintegration. There are approximately 1.1 to 1.4 million people in the Acholi sub-region at the time of writing3 ; 295,000 internally-displaced persons (IDPs) remain displaced either in IDP camps or transit sites. Approximately 800,000 Acholis have already left the camps and spontaneously returned home over the last three years.
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Large Scale Land Acquisitions for Investment in Kenya: Is the participation, and benefits of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable?

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Kenya, Africa
Land Conflicts
scale
land valuation
land administration
displacement
land acquisitions
compensation
land
local communities
A case study of the situation in Lamu, Isiolo and Siaya Counties by the Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI).
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Displacement and Resettlement in Zambia

Reports & Research
June, 2015
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
scale
displacement
land acquisitions
land
Includes key issues; the rise of development-induced displacements; key findings on the resettlement process; evaluating the proposed National Resettlement Policy; recommendations. Brief argues reforms need to be cognisant of the ways and means in which communities have been displaced and resettled in recent cases of land-based investments, and learn lessons from them.
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RESOLVING LAND DISPUTES IN POST-CONFLICT NORTHERN UGANDA

THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND LOCAL COUNCIL COURTS

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
common property
communal ownership
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
displacement
informal settlements
land administration
land policies
property rights
Post-conflict northern Uganda has witnessed an increase in disputes over land. This has, to a great extent, been as a result of the armed conflict and its aftermath. Beyond that, other chaotic factors embedded in various social, legal, economic, and political aspects of this society have influenced the nature, gravity, and dynamics of these disputes and the way in which Traditional Institutions and the Local Council Courts have attempted to resolve them.
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Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa. Country Report: Ethiopia

Reports & Research
May, 2011
Ethiopia, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land deals
displacement
environment
compensation
farmland
scale
Contains country context, study of land investment, benefits and impacts. Finds wide discrepancies between public positions and laws and what is happening on the ground, an absence of environmental controls, widespread displacement from farmland without compensation, little local benefit, many land deals involve small-scale investors with limited agricultural experience.
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Webinar Report: Land in Post-Conflict Settings

Reports & Research
June, 2019
Uganda, Myanmar, Global
Land in post-conflict settings
land administration
cadastral administration
land governance
post-conflict settings
customary law
environment
natural resources management
land acquisitions
compulsory acquisitions
land grabbing
displacement
dispossession
land conflicts
land dispute
customary land rights
customary tenure
Post-war societies not only have to deal with continuing unpeaceful relations but also land-related conflict legacies, farmland and forest degradation, heavily exploited natural resources, land mines, a destroyed infrastructure, as well as returning refugees and ex-combatants. In the aftermath of war, access to and control of land often remains a sensitive issue which may precipitate tensions and lead to a renewed destabilization of volatile post-conflict situations.
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‘I am a Refugee in My Own Country’: Conflict-Induced Internal Displacement in Kenya

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
displacement
land administration
land policies
land rights
Internal displacement in Kenya is a complex and multi-faceted social problem that revolves around and reflects unresolved issues of land and property, as well as the struggle for the control of political and economic resources. These intricate and sensitive issues, manifested in ethnic conflict, violent cattle raids, and government evictions characterised by human rights abuses have displaced people throughout the country.