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Terms of Reference for an event Coordinator - Third Land Learning Journey Series

Background Our Country Strategy focuses on deepening governance and accountability processes; fostering resilient livelihoods and strengthening humanitarian capacity as well as responding to humanitarian crises. Oxfam’s Global Land Program ‘How land and natural resources are accessed, controlled,...

Statement by the SDG land momentum group in response to the political declaration of the SDG summit

Nearly five years into the implementation of the ground breaking global commitments of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the time is upon to consider what has been accomplished so far and to set the tone for action that will enable the world to meet its ambitious goals. The political...

Land As A Driver Of Inequality

Inequities in land ownership and access are possibly one of the most common injustices that have persisted in Uganda since the pre-colonial times. Unfair land use policies and practices and the lack of security of tenure must be immediately addressed if Uganda is to achieve its development goals...

NON-STATE ACTORS' ASSESSMENT AT THE JOINT AGRICULTURAL SECTOR REVIEW

Oxfam and PELUM During the Joint Sector Review (JSR) for the Lands, Housing and Urban Development (LHUD) sector, civil societies participated and gave their recommendations to the different participants present including Government Departments, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development,...

PELUM Uganda - Economic Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihoods

PELUM Uganda has enjoyed great collaboration with Oxfam since 2006. Our journey together has been very rewarding. In the earlier years, we greatly profited from institutional strengthening of PELUM Uganda, her members and the farmers on Farmer Led Documentation and Knowledge sharing. Later on, we...

East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Communique

The governments of Uganda and Tanzania have agreed to build a 1, 445 KM crude oil pipeline at an estimated cost of US$ 3.55 billion. To learn and inform the project, we convened a meeting for key actors in the Extractives industries. Read the communique for more details.

Zawadi Esther harvesting cassava on her farm in Tiapi village, Ayavu Parish. The mother of five children supports her family with farming.

Women's land rights in Northern Uganda

Land is a very vital resource in production, to be able to grow more food in order to improve nutrition and raise incomes; women need equal access to land and production services. Whereas women carry out the bulk of agricultural production