{"id":1039,"date":"2019-05-10T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.landnet.ug\/landwatch\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2019-05-10T10:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:48:59","slug":"land-mapping-pilot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/land-mapping-pilot-project\/","title":{"rendered":"LAND MAPPING PILOT PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Quoted from the New\nVision of 06th May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government of Uganda has started a pilot land mapping\nexercise in the districts of Mityana and Kassada .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Over 3000 tenancy rights (bibanja) holders from Myanzi sub-county in Kassadda district and Gombe in Mityana district are some of the first beneficiaries of the pilot exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bibanja holders received their land inventory (map)\ncertificates on Thursday the 02 May 2019 at the Kidukulu parish headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The certificates shows the size of the land ,its location\n,neighbors and landlord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The land inventory enables the tenants to negotiate with the\nlandlords on whether to buy out, sale, acquire a leases or get a certificate of\ncustomary occupancy over the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot project targets about 10,000 tenants in Mityana\nand Kassada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further to this the tenants can get to know the size of\ntheir land which helps them certify their legal occupancy which actually\nprotects them from eviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mapping of the land is done for the willing tenants and\ntheir landlords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GIZ together with their partners have been sensitizing and\nmapping land which is helping to resolve conflicts between landlords and tenants\nin Mityana and Kassadda.This exercise will go a long way in reducing land conflicts\non private mailo land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of having got their land mapped and received\ncertificates the tenants are encouraged to&nbsp;\ncontinue paying their ground rent commonly known as Busuulu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that this Certificates are not Land\ntitles however the certificate can now help one get started with the process of\ngetting a title once you &nbsp;buy out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from the New Vision of 06th May 2019 The Government of Uganda has started a pilot land mapping exercise in the districts of Mityana and Kassada . Over 3000 tenancy rights (bibanja) holders from Myanzi sub-county in Kassadda district and Gombe in Mityana district are some of the first beneficiaries of the pilot exercise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,89,87,90,91,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}