Country Coalition

Uganda

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GOAL

To advance secure and equitable women’s land rights by building a unified, locally-driven movement and bridging the implementation gap.

FOUNDED

December 2021

OVERVIEW

Despite legal frameworks guaranteeing women’s land rights and substantial local work to strengthen these rights, women in Uganda face persistent challenges in claiming and securing their rights to land.

Stand for Her Land Uganda is using the power of collective advocacy and capacity-sharing to leverage the current opportunity to transform gender paradigms and achieve lasting change for women’s land rights.

READ: S4HL Uganda Campaign Strategy

KEY FOCUS AREAS

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Transformation of discriminatory social and cultural norms preventing women from accessing, owning and controlling land

2

Increase funding and capacity for land management and administration institutions to support WLRs

3

Enhance legal literacy in the legal and regulatory frameworks on WLRS by rights holders, duty bearers, and community members

4

Enhance access to land justice

5

Strengthen participation, voice, and agency of grassroots women in land governance

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ACTIVITIES: A SNAPSHOT

Media campaign

S4HL Uganda is expanding the existing media campaign around women’s land rights, using the Coalition Lead’s vast experience in community radio, social media, TV, press conferences, and national stakeholder engagements.

Roundtable gatherings

The S4HL Uganda Coalition will convene government officials and other key stakeholders at roundtable gatherings to share pilot project lessons, best practices, and outcomes from land rights registration processes. The Coalition will work within existing multi-stakeholder platforms and national venues centered on women’s land rights and adjacent areas.

Community mobilization

At the community level, S4HL Uganda is working to integrate gender-transformative approaches in the land rights registration and land dispute resolution processes on mailo and customary land through community dialogues to identify and transform existing harmful norms limiting women’s land rights.

Member Organizations

Coordinator: Uganda Community-Based Association for Women and Children’s Welfare (UCOBAC)

Global Land Tool Network

Actionaid Uganda

Transparency International (TI)

Oxfam Uganda

GIZ

Uganda Land Alliance (ULA)

Actogether

LandNet Uganda

LEMU

FIDA

Women and Girl Child Development Association

Food Rights Alliance

Youth Plus Policy Network Uganda

Buganda Land Board

Life Concern (LICO)

Pader NGO Forum (PNF)

Land Justice Network

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment (AWARE)

African Rural Development Initiatives, Mbale district

Local Sustainable Communities Org

Ateker Cultural Center, Karamoja

Allied Workers Association

Action for Development (ACFODE)

National Land Coalition

Kawempe Home Based Care Alliance

Lungujja Community Health Caring Organization

African Women Service Trust

Kaabale Women In Development

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