by admin | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Legislators across the Political Divide on Wednesday July 6, formed the “Uganda Parliamentarians Land Management Forum.
Addressing journalists on Wednesday, Christine Nakimwero Kaaya, the designated Chairperson, revealed that the platform will at the core, promote and protect land rights of Ugandans across the country.
“We are going to use our oversight role especially in identifying which disputes are common across Uganda and then use our legislative role. Some of the policies are there but are not biting as far as land tenure security for our very vulnerable citizens is concerned. Look at the Parish Development Model, nothing has been put up as far as management of the Parish Area Land Committee is concerned and yet this is the first organ that would help us with land disputes,” Kaaya revealed.ReadMore
by admin | Jul 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today, Uganda Parliamentarians Land Management Forum (UPLMF) has held a press release in Members Loungue at parliament on the establishment of Land Forum which will work to put right Land rights issues at the fore front in the parliamentary business. ReadMore
by admin | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today 27th June 2022 there has been an engagement with Members of Parliament on Operation Underground Railroad (OUR)
UplMf was well represented especially for the push to bring the Witness Protection bill back to the August house
by admin | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
According to findings of a 2008 household survey by Rugadya…et al for Ministry of Justice in
20 districts18, land disputes rank the highest among conflicts countrywide and are often the cause
of other disputes including family and domestic violence, assaults and murder. One of the major
conclusions of this survey was that land conflicts and disputes point to a lapse in land tenure
administration and management especially with regard to boundaries, land ownership and its
transmission, occupation, trespass, fraudulent transactions and succession wrangles.
Findings show that there is a county wide increase in land disputes, where the occurrence of land
conflicts at household level is (34.9%); with rural households accounting for (36%) of these
conflicts compared to urban households that take a share of (33%). Overall the most commonly
cited types of land conflicts experienced by the households surveyed are ‘boundary
discrepancies’ (32.1%), land ownership wrangles (18.8%), inheritance and succession wrangles
(15.5%) and illegal land occupation (12.3%). A significant 20% of all land disputes that occur
are not reported to any dispute resolution institution, given the severity of land conflicts, this is a
precursor to social tensions that could erupt into violence.
However, (59.9%) of land disputes are resolved at the institution of first call. In terms of regional
distribution, the eastern region had the highest dispute prevalence of (48%) and lowest was in
western Uganda at (15.4%). Child headed households reported a comparatively higher
prevalence of land conflicts (41.3%). ReadMore
by admin | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
CHOGM recognised the need of taking a principled approach to the Living Lands Charter and active cooperation with a range of partners to share knowledge, expertise, success stories, and good practices in sustainable land management, while incentivising investment flows and technological innovation They also underlined the critical guardianship provided by Indigenous peoples and local communities in protecting land and vital ecosystem services, and recognised the land and resource rights of these communities, in accordance with national law and international instruments.
