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.
Land Protection
Customary tenure
investment on land
Women’s Land Rights
Based Violence
OUR PARTNERS
OUR VISION
A Ugandan society with land tenure security and equitable land rights that make land secure for all for equitable development.
OUR MISSION
LEMU works to uphold and secure land rights for the well-being of the most vulnerable in Uganda.
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
Judy Adoko – A Beacon of Integrity
Judy Adoko has passed on – a Beacon of Integrity has been switched off before us. At this time when integrity is a rare commodity...
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LEMU mourns the passing of its founding director, Ms Judy Adoko
The LEMU Staff and Board, the family of Judy, the NGO fraternity, the people of Lango and the land sector in Uganda and globally. Waking...
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Ministry of Lands to process CLA certificates for Karamoja
The department of Land Registration at the Directorate of Land management in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and urban development has promised to process the...
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