{UAH} NEW LAND POLICY
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Feels like some key player is missing. Perhaps it is in the meaning of
"...The policy was drafted by the Government in conjunction with civil society..."?!?!
What does "inconjuction with civil society" really mean? Especially if I couple it with the president's:
"...He noted that the Government intended to help women and children who inherit land to acquire titles to protect them from relatives who would grab it.".
My own personal experience is that a key actor should be the traditional / cultural chiefs / Kings / Rwots institution. Because many of these women and children are themselves thieves who embazzle or usurp their common family assets and land to their own private gains.
In Gulu which I very much know of and also experienced the Devilish minds of women and their Satanic lawyers who take advantage of poor kids who grew up in the IDP camps and many probably lost their parents without ever knowing their actual compounds or their rights to the compounds.
Suddenly, a brother or relative pops up from overseas with bucks to claim heritance or custody. The poor boys sees dollars, jeans and a ride around and, in a flash, his right to the family compound is gone!!
Even divorced women have been terrorizing families with claims they are not entitled to.
THIS SITUATION COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER RECTIFIED IF THE COURT AND THE
TRADITIONAL CHIEFS AND CLAN HEADS PLAYED ACTIVE ROLES AND COORDINATED THEIR INVESTIGATIONS.
Otherwise many of these women and children could themseves be terrors.
Noc'la gaumoy
Government unveils land policyPublish Date: Feb 09, 2014
Lands and housing minister Daudi Migereko
By Vision reporter
The Government has unveiled a new land policy aimed at empowering women and children to end the increasing land conflicts which have hit the country in the last two decades.
Lands and housing minister Daudi Migereko said the Government had started implementing the policy, which would be launched by President Yoweri Museveni in the first week of March.
He noted that the Government intended to help women and children who inherit land to acquire titles to protect them from relatives who would grab it.
"If we use the policy well and sensitise the public about it, land wrangles will become history," Migereko said.
He made the remarks on Friday while meeting Hilary Pennington, the vice-president of the Ford Foundation, at the ministry's headquarters in Kampala.
The US-based foundation has been crucial in funding land management projects.
Migereko disclosed that the policy would address the historical land injustices meted out on the people of Uganda.
The policy also intends to give more land rights to small-scale farmers to help them go commercial.
Pennington described the new policy as a model and urged other African countries to emulate Uganda. She said her foundation would finance its implementation.
The policy was drafted by the Government in conjunction with civil society.
Migereko noted that implementing the policy would be easy, owing to the consultations between the Government and civil society.
The Government has unveiled a new land policy aimed at empowering women and children to end the increasing land conflicts which have hit the country in the last two decades.
Lands and housing minister Daudi Migereko said the Government had started implementing the policy, which would be launched by President Yoweri Museveni in the first week of March.
He noted that the Government intended to help women and children who inherit land to acquire titles to protect them from relatives who would grab it.
"If we use the policy well and sensitise the public about it, land wrangles will become history," Migereko said.
He made the remarks on Friday while meeting Hilary Pennington, the vice-president of the Ford Foundation, at the ministry's headquarters in Kampala.
The US-based foundation has been crucial in funding land management projects.
Migereko disclosed that the policy would address the historical land injustices meted out on the people of Uganda.
The policy also intends to give more land rights to small-scale farmers to help them go commercial.
Pennington described the new policy as a model and urged other African countries to emulate Uganda. She said her foundation would finance its implementation.
The policy was drafted by the Government in conjunction with civil society.
Migereko noted that implementing the policy would be easy, owing to the consultations between the Government and civil society.
"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.
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