A study commissioned by IIED. With less than 20 percent of landholdings in Uganda currently registered, land governance is at the forefront of a profound change as customary land is demarcated and registered. A key ...

Discusses the work of Barefoot Law, founded in 2012, which aims to find new ways to teach Ugandans about their land rights and how to claim them. It handles about 100 legal matters each day and reaches 350,000 ...

This report, based on primary and secondary data, highlights the link between land and inequality in Uganda.  It underscores the need to review policies, laws and regulations governing institutions and practices in ...

The certificate of customary ownership (CCO) is a land tenure reform implemented in customary tenure areas of Uganda, including Nwoya district in the north. Proponents of CCOs contend that they enhance tenure ...

From 2009-2015 Namati and partners CTV in Mozambique, LEMU in Uganda and SDI in Liberia supported more than 100 communities to document and protect their customary land rights. In late 2017 Namati evaluated the ...

A 16 minute documentary film developed by ESAFF Uganda detailing how small-scale farming communities in northern Uganda are using LSLBI tools to raise the awareness, especially of women, to engage with local ...

A new report by the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA) has linked land grabbing to worsening climate change, calling on governments to secure community land rights to protect the world’s natural ...

In recent decades, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have pursued national water permit systems, derived from the colonial era and reinforced by “global best practice.” These systems have proved logistically ...

The Netherlands Land Academy (LANDac), the Food & Business Knowledge Platform, CIFOR and Shared Value Foundation (SVF) jointly set out in 2017 to design and implement 3 multi-stakeholder Learning Platforms ...

Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek to ...