LEMU for Community
Conflict Resolution

LEMU Mediation Meeting

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Mediation meeting between
an Investor and the
Community

Boundary verification in
Awer Forest Reserve

Community meeting
organized by LEMU

LEMU Against Gender
Based Violence

OUR PARTNERS

Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development

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

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.

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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