1. LAND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN UGANDA: CURRENT STATUS
Lilian Mono Wabineno
Dept of Geomatics and Land Management, Makerere University
Moses Musinguzi
Peter Ekbäck
Division of Real Estate Planning and Land Law, KTH

2. Overview Introduction Current status of land information Challenges
Proposed improvements
conclusion

3. Introduction
LIM is the way information about land is handled or dealt with.
Includes capturing, organising, integrating and distributing of land related information
Could be in digital or paper form
Good LIM;
Offers tenure security
Promotes economic development in terms of creating good land markets and appropriate land use planning

4. Introduction Reduces conflicts on land
Encourages good land management practices
Efforts to Improve LIM and LAS
Studies from 1990s e.g. Some of the earliest studies such as Greenwood (1990) and Larsson (1990) made recommendations, some of which specifically focused on addressing problems of land information handling.

5. Introduction Land Sector Strategic Plan (2001-2011) NLIS and SD
USAID-funded Support for Private Enterprise Expansion and Development (SPEED) project
Private Sector Competitiveness Project (PSCP)
The government is increasingly acknowledging that improving accessibility to land information will lead to utilization of Uganda’s land resources for sustainable development.

6. Stakeholders of land information
Individuals/Public
Government
Land related businesses and NGOs

7. Status of Survey Information
Cadastral data sheets
scales ranging from 1:2,500 for urban areas to 1:10,000 and more for rural areas.
Kept in paper form and most of them are in bad physical condition difficult to scan, geo-reference and digitize
Topographical maps
Topographical maps are also in paper form.

8. Status of Survey Information
The 1:50,000 scale maps cover the entire country
Have not been updated since the late 1960s where they were compiled by the Ordinance Survey of Great Britain.
Some topographical maps covering Kampala and surrounding areas were updated in the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) project.

9. Status of Land Registration Information
Still largely manually managed
Different registers
Archiving has been done

10. Challenges in the LIMS Analogue system Land record in poor shape
Reliance on this data can be misleading since it comes with different levels of inaccuracies and misrepresentation.
slow, inefficient and puts information at risk of being lost due to wear and tear.
land information difficult to update, analyse, track changes

11. Challenges of the Current LIMS
Makes data sharing, dissemination and checking very difficult and cumbersome
Legal Framework
Some of the laws are outdated and cannot hold for the current situation while others are overlapping or duplicates.
Lack of Integrated information
With no centre for readily and accessible land information, different institutions generate their own data sets to meet their institutional mandates.

12. Challenges Led to duplication of data
The accuracies of these data cannot be guaranteed.
This does not only waste money, it can easily lead to disputes and conflicts due to mismatches in the information
Public Ignorance and Bureaucratic Procedures
Staff Capacity

13. Proposed Improvements
Staff training, development and recruitment
Legal Reforms
Developing a National Land Information System
Decentralization of Local Land Record Offices
Public Involvement and sensitization
Incentives to have land registered
Strong Institutional Linkage

14. Conclusion
Good management of land is dependent on the quality and standard of land information and the efficiency of the processes involved in land information generation and dissemination.
Implementing policies on land to support economic growth is not possible if there is no good land information (Ahene, 2009)