Land and Equity Movement in Uganda is a Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisation. We have been working since 2003 to uphold and secure the land rights of the most vulnerable people in Uganda, using our expertise in customary tenure.
OUR PARTNERS
OUR VISION
An empowered and flourishing society with securely held and productive land.
OUR MISSION
LEMU supports vulnerable communities in Uganda to secure their land rights under customary tenure and to achieve sustainable and productive land use.
WHAT WE DO
In defence of customary tenure
Customary land ownership simply means that someone (or a group of people) owns or has rights to the land, because their community accepts that they all have rights to it…
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LEMU Promotes Responsible Investment on Land
The strategic approach of the project aims at strengthening the capacities of key stakeholders and improve investment inland.
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Championing Women’s Land Rights
Women’s land rights under customary tenure are widely misunderstood. Although the tenure incorporates protections for women, in some…
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Community land protection
To date, LEMU has successfully worked with a number of communities to document their own rules regarding the management of their communal land…
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LEMU ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
Rethinking the Customary Land Question with the work of Judy Adoko
The 10th Session of the LEMU Land Study Group seeks to discuss the concepts with which we should understand African customary land. Can Eurocentric and local...
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How should we understand landlessness today?
How should we understand landlessness today? What does it mean to be “landless” while “landed”? Join us for the 9th Session of the LEMU Land...
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Does titling protect customary landholders from displacement, or does it do the reverse?
We cordially invite you to our 8th Session of the LEMU Land Study Group as Adventino Banjwa presents his paper on titling and displacement in...
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