Through The Women’s Spaces Project, SSA paralegal training is not only changing the mindsets of local communities, but it also changes the lives of the paralegals that lead sensitizations for their neighbors. Grace Katushabe is a paralegal from Kamuli Municipality. Since receiving the training, she has been sensitized on Uganda law. In turn, she has […]
Land rights awareness in one of the primary cooperative societies belonging to MT Rwenzori Coffee Farmers Union. The awareness involved empowering the cooperators with knowledge in the legal framework on land, the rights women, men and youth have on access control and use of land and where to report in instances of violations. This awareness […]
Shelter Settlements Alternatives (SSA) in partnership with National Association of Women’s Organization in Uganda (NAWOU) and West Acholi Cooperative Union ltd (WACU) conducted a land rights awareness among model couples in Gulu city. The model couples were equipped with knowledge on the Legal framework on land, dispute resolution techniques that they will apply in their […]
With population growth, poor households are continuing to subdivide ancestral land and individual plots are getting smaller as well as less productive, family land wrangles, land grabbing, illegal evictions and many other forms of dispossession have become a common practice in Uganda leading to increased inequality. Land is generally handed down from father to son. […]
The network Land and Housing Working group reviewed the Ministerial Policy Statement of Vote 12 and developed a position paper highlighting gaps which included; Low funding to the housing sector Increasing housing deficit Low levels of dissemination of the National Housing Policy Limited skills among artisans Need to fast track cities law among others. The […]
During 2020 SSA:UHSNET together with other partners conducted a Land Awareness Campaign in different regions including Central region with partners- Uganda Housing Cooperative Union and Mukono Multipurpose Youth Organization, In Northern Uganda with Partners West Acholi Cooperative Union, In West Nile with partners Okoro Coffee Growers Union and in South Western Uganda with Semuliki and […]