| dc.description.abstract | The continued existence of untitled land in Uganda has yielded to an increase in a number of cases concerning tenure insecurity evidenced by the common vice of land grabbing as discovered by the commission of inquiry into land matters led by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire.
Land administration as defined by the United Nations (UN) refers to the process of determining, recording and disseminating information about ownership, value and use of land, when implementing land policies. Land administration system was designed with the objective of ensuring stability in relation to the division of land between individuals, groups of individuals and other legal entities (Lantmäteriverket, 2008). Land administration system consists of a set of functions set to achieve sustainable development of land matters (Qian, 2014). These set of functions include; land registration, cadastre, land valuation and taxation, land use planning and land development (Williamson, 2001). This research focused on land registration and cadastre as the core functions of land administration system. Land registration and land titling are believed to be the means of providing security to different land owner. Land registration provides formal land title to the citizens which come with a number of benefits such as increased access to formal credit, increased land values and increased tenure security (Feder and Nishio, 1998). A cadastre on the other hand provides land record information for all land related activities (Renzhong et al., 2013).
The existence of an effective land administration system in the country is indicated by absence or few cases of land conflicts or disputes with a largest percentage of land having formal or a legal document of ownership. Stable and secure Access to land and other natural resources by all classes of people including the rich, poor, men, women, children, widows and orphans provides an opportunity for economic growth and an incentive to invest thus improving their standards of living (Lantmäteriverket, 2008). A country with poor or no transparent and efficient land administration system has an economy that is negatively affected, with the poor mostly suffering from these negative effects.
This research aimed at assessing how effective land administration system has been especially in promoting land registration and titling in Uganda but majorly focusing on systematic demarcation of land, how it is implemented and the impact of its implementation.
Different approaches have been applied to carry out this assessment. Both desk and empirical research has been applied. Several principals identified and their indicators assessed to come up with the findings. The findings indicate that 70% of the indicators have been dissatisfying as far as land administration system is concerned | en_US |
