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Displaying 6 - 10 of 12Gender in Uganda’s National Land Policy
Analyses context within which the National Land Policy ascribes to tackle gender. Looks at influencing policy context, theories and evidence, access to and control of land, current policy response, and key implications for the PSIA (Poverty Social Impact
Gender Monitoring Baseline Survey for the Land Sector Strategic Plan in 20 Districts
Baseline survey which includes a literature review. Findings cover land and livelihoods, land ownership and security of tenure, land rights and decision making, land market and transactions, land disputes. Concludes that the volume of land transactions is too low to support a transformation from subsistence to commercial agriculture, as planned. Smallholder farmers have limited capital options making increased land utilization impossible. Tenure security for women is still far from a reality. There is a need to strengthen land rights of widows and orphans.
Exploring the Intricacies of Land Tenure in Pastoral Areas: Issues for Policy and Law Reform
Contains introduction; the issues, emerging Intricacies – options for Policy and law reform; conclusion; references. Argues the need to address pastoral development policy in a coordinated manner in national development strategies and programmes.
Integrating HIV/AIDS in the Land Reform Process
The result of intensive literature review and secondary data analysis to set forth the rationale for a more proactive involvement of the land sector in responding to the socio-economic impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Aims at developing strategies for the land sector to respond to the livelihood effects of HIV/AIDS in household and communities by situating and explaining the linkages between HIV/AIDS and land with measures adaptable to the land reform process.
Issues Paper for the National Land Policy (Land Tenure Reform Project)
Contains introduction, conceptual framework, issues for the land policy (sovereignty, land tenure systems and issues, land and sustainable livelihoods, land administration and management, natural resources, land markets, land/property taxation), policy implementation, the gaps and areas for future study.