• Address: Plot 54, Muwafu Road (off Corporation Road), Ministers Village - Ntinda - Kampala P.O Box 26990 Kampala, Uganda

ULA

UGANDA LAND ALLIANCE

2003

Member since

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Platforms

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
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Effective actions against land grabbing

Mission

To enhance access, control and ownership of land by poor women, men, children and other marginalized females and males through the promotion of fair policies and laws for protection of land rights. ULA´s values: Participation, coordination, social justice, sustainable management of land, gender equity, and empowerment of communities, networking, ethics, and integrity.

The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) is a consortium of more than 60 national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and individuals aimed at ensuring the equitable distribution of land and the subsequent reduction of poverty in Uganda. The alliance’s objective is to enhance access, control and ownership of land by poor and marginalised men, women and children, through the promotion of fair policies and laws for the protection of land rights. The alliance envisions an Ugandan society where there is equitable access and control over land, and where the poor women, men and children actively participate to eradicate poverty.

Objectives

The objectives include to increase land rights and awareness among poor women, men, children and other marginalized groups; to lobby and to advocate for fair land laws and policies; and to protect and promote the land rights of poor women, men children and other marginalized groups. The Alliance also aims to attain the effective participation of members in ULA programmes and to enhance collaboration with other organizations and institutions. Furthermore, ULA aspires to attain efficiency and effectiveness in the planning and management of it programmes.

Constituencies

ULA members and marginalized groups.

  • Address: Plot 54, Muwafu Road (off Corporation Road), Ministers Village - Ntinda - Kampala P.O Box 26990 Kampala, Uganda