Letter from Buganda: Let Us Rise Together and Stand for Her Land

Oct 16, 2019 | Cizzy N. Kiyaga
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Buganda is a major subnational kingdom in central Uganda. While over 10 million people live and work on land owned by the kingdom, the land authority known as Buganda Land Board (BLB) records just 250,000 entries of registered tenants in its database. And less than 5% of those in the database have leasehold land titles. Many lack the funds and knowledge on the purpose of the titles and how to secure their tenancy.

In 2010, BLB created the Land Title Access Financing Initiative (LAFI) to help millions of tenants cover the cost of title processing and eventually acquire land titles. Statistics from BLB’s database show that only 26% of the applicants to this initiative are women.