Unravelling the Centrality of Tenure Security in Determining Resettlement Packages for Oil Refinery Displaced Persons in Uganda’s Albertine Graben
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Date
2019
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Social Change
Abstract
This paper investigates the role of tenure security in defining resettlement
packages for oil refinery displaced communities of the Kabaale parish. The
parish is located in the Buseruka sub-county, Hoima district in western Uganda.
Descriptive and explorative designs employing both qualitative and quantitative
approaches were used to enlist data from 48 displaced households as well as key
informants. Customary land tenure is not fully acknowledged as legitimate, and
thus customary landowners were not fairly treated as compared to those whose
land was formally registered under freehold tenure. It was found that women
and other secondary land rights owners were unfairly treated in the resettlement
packages. We concluded that customary tenure security ought to be enhanced
through the acquisition of certificates of customary ownership and that local
communities should be sensitised to respect women’s land rights.
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Customary tenure, Development-induced displacees, Gender
Citation
Mugagga, F., Byakagaba, P., & Tibakunirwa, L. (2019). Unravelling the Centrality of Tenure Security in Determining Resettlement Packages for Oil Refinery Displaced Persons in Uganda’s Albertine Graben. Social Change, 49(4), 659-672. DOI: 10.1177/0049085719872865