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Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2016
Uganda
Enhancing Tenure Security for Customary Lands and Natural Resources in Karamoja Region through Participatory Community Mapping
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Library ResourceMultimediaMarch, 2016Uganda
Enhancing Tenure Security for Customary Lands and Natural Resources in Karamoja Region through Participatory Community Mapping
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2016Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda
Developing Capacity Assessment Tool for Land Policy Implementation: Experience from Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda
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Library ResourceMultimediaMarch, 2016Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda
Developing Capacity Assessment Tool for Land Policy Implementation: Experience from Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda
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Training Resources & ToolsFebruary, 2018Africa, UgandaMailo tenure is the most legislated form of tenure in Uganda, having its origins in the 1900 Buganda Agreement. Reforms over the years have seen the evolution of this tenure that is essentially freehold in nature, albeit with its local characteristics arising out of an unresolved tenant question. This status quo was reinstated in the 1995 Constitution, the Land Act and its subsequent amendments. Whereas it is expected that reforms introduced by the Constitution and Land Act would suffice in stabilizing Mailo tenure, this has not happened in practice.
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Peer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2007UgandaThis guide has been written as an information resource for government officials, community leaders, humanitarian aid workers, judges, lawyers and others whose responsibilities include upholding land and property rights in Uganda. It outlines the main provisions of Uganda’s constitutional and legal framework and the protection these provide to property rights. It briefly outlines the historical background to existing land tenure relations, describes the constitutional provisions relating to land in the 1995 Constitution and sets out the main provisions of the Land Act 1998.
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Manuals & GuidelinesJuly, 2016UgandaUganda discovered commercial quantities of oil in the country in 2006 and ever since, there has been increased activity in the exploration of oil and gas. The exploration activities are being undertaken in the Albertine Graben in mostly the districts of Hoima, Buliisa, and Nwoya by international oil companies contracted by the government. Currently, there are three licensed companies namely, Tullow Uganda operations Ltd , Total E&P and CNOOC Uganda Ltd operating in the districts of Hoima, Buliisa and Nwoya within the Albertine Graben.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2012Uganda
This report investigates cases of land grabbing in Uganda, focusing in particular on oil palm plantations in Kalangala, Lake Victoria. It assesses the impacts on rural communities and on the local environment, and questions who benefits from these projects.
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An Act to confer jurisdiction on magistrates courts to grant probate or letters of administration in respect of small estates of deceased persons and for other matters connected therewith.
LegislationUganda, Africa, Eastern AfricaThis Act makes provision for the administration of the small estates of deceased persons. The Act defines jurisdiction of specified magistrates to grant probate or letters of administration in respect of small estates of deceased persons and provides, among other things, for application for the grant of probate or letters of administration, revoking of probate or letters of administration and appeals against decisions of a magistrate’s court.
Implemented by: Administration of Estates (Small Estates) (Special Provisions) (Probate and Administration) Rules (S.I. 156—1). (0000)
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Library ResourceLegislationJanuary, 1940Uganda
This Act makes provision for the administration of estates of persons dying outside Uganda in a State listed in the Schedule to this Act and leaving property within Uganda. If no person is rightfully entitled to administer the estate of the deceased person, the consul, vice consul, or consular agent of a listed State may take possession and have the custody of the property of the deceased person. He or she shall immediately apply for letters of administration of the property of the deceased person, limited in such manner and for such time as to the court shall deem fit.
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