Land Question in Uganda
UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
FACAULT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE
Master of Research and Public Policy, First Semester
Course Unit: Public Policy Development and Analysis
Lecturer: PROF. WAMALA AUGUSTINE
Handed in on 4th November 2014
By Omviti Nixon
Student Reg. No. SI4M07/029 omviti.nixon@gmail.com TERM PAPER
Question:
Land grabbing, wrangles and conflicts and the like continued unabated, in the country, despite the land policy of Uganda. Examine whether the problem can be located at the policy formulation, implementation, or goal definition.
ABSTRACT
Land is probably the most invaluable asset for the citizens of Uganda. With more than 80% of the rural population directly deriving livelihoods on it through subsistence agriculture, land access, ownership and use are core to economic, social and environmental drivers of land reforms in Uganda. It is against the central role of land and its resources in Uganda’s economic development agenda that successive political regimes sought to reform land tenure relations. But Uganda’s sluggish move from difficulties of land tenure administration complete with cumbersome policy delivery and ineffective land-use management partly stem from the troubled colonial legacy, complete with unfair policies. But with the enactment of
1995, there was a landmark change, for Article 237 of the 1995 , provided and directly bestowed the ultimate ownership of land to the people of Uganda; vested in them in accordance with freehold, leasehold, Mailo land and customary land tenure system.
Government also obtained the residual authority to control land use in the public interest; and may “under laws made by parliament and policies made from time to time to regulate the use of land.”
The Government of Uganda had undertaken a series of legal and policy reforms with regard to property rights and resource governance, towards a fundamental reform in rights and tenure management of land. Namely; the Land
FACAULT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE
Master of Research and Public Policy, First Semester
Course Unit: Public Policy Development and Analysis
Lecturer: PROF. WAMALA AUGUSTINE
Handed in on 4th November 2014
By Omviti Nixon
Student Reg. No. SI4M07/029 omviti.nixon@gmail.com TERM PAPER
Question:
Land grabbing, wrangles and conflicts and the like continued unabated, in the country, despite the land policy of Uganda. Examine whether the problem can be located at the policy formulation, implementation, or goal definition.
ABSTRACT
Land is probably the most invaluable asset for the citizens of Uganda. With more than 80% of the rural population directly deriving livelihoods on it through subsistence agriculture, land access, ownership and use are core to economic, social and environmental drivers of land reforms in Uganda. It is against the central role of land and its resources in Uganda’s economic development agenda that successive political regimes sought to reform land tenure relations. But Uganda’s sluggish move from difficulties of land tenure administration complete with cumbersome policy delivery and ineffective land-use management partly stem from the troubled colonial legacy, complete with unfair policies. But with the enactment of
1995, there was a landmark change, for Article 237 of the 1995 , provided and directly bestowed the ultimate ownership of land to the people of Uganda; vested in them in accordance with freehold, leasehold, Mailo land and customary land tenure system.
Government also obtained the residual authority to control land use in the public interest; and may “under laws made by parliament and policies made from time to time to regulate the use of land.”
The Government of Uganda had undertaken a series of legal and policy reforms with regard to property rights and resource governance, towards a fundamental reform in rights and tenure management of land. Namely; the Land
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