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As water bank runs dry, Uganda greens hills to soak up rain ()
13 September 2018
Frederick Mugira
In the village of Katebe, Ugandan schoolchildren have little choice but to drink from the same water supply as animals. During the dry season from June to August, Kyakatarihwa dam is the only source of water for people and livestock alike in this remote part of southwest Uganda's Mbarara district…
Improving tenure security through partnership and collaboration with the GLTN ()
27 June 2018
Sarah Nandudu
The National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda (NSDFU) is a network of approximately 350 community groups with a membership of approximately 38,000 people. NSDFU is a member of the Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) network, a transnational network of the urban poor founded in 1996, and which…
To close the gap in women’s land rights, we need to do a better job of measuring it
To close the gap in women’s land rights, we need to do a better job of measuring it ()
6 March 2018
Mercedes Stickler
There is broad global agreement that secure property rights help eradicate poverty and that securing women’s land rights reduces gender inequality. But our understanding remains strikingly limited when it comes to the extent to which women’s land rights are – or are not – secure and the impact of…
Photo taken in a village in southern Karamoja, Uganda, courtesy of Matt Kandel.
Reshaping the Debate on Land Alienation in Africa: What are the Origins of Social Change? ()
By Matt Kandel, a Newton International Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. One Monday afternoon last August I was seated underneath a large palm tree with my friend, Simon, in Soroti Town in rural eastern Uganda, both of us relaxing and seeking a minor respite from the…
Collective forest tenure reforms: Where do we go from here? ()
By Anne Larson, Principal Scientist, CIFOR   The recent World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, held this past March in Washington D.C., provided a unique opportunity to reflect on collective land tenure reforms not only from a research point of view, but also from that of governments.   The…
Community Land Protection and the SDGs ()
By Rachael Knight, Senior Advisor, Community Land Protection, Namati   Taken together, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are a beautiful, ambitious vision for the world we aim to create for future generations. Their drafting and adoption are the result of astonishing cooperation by experts…