Assessing the effectiveness of land registration systems in Uganda case study: Kampala city.
Abstract
With the existence of insecurity of tenure due to deficiencies in the land registration
systems leading to land vulnerability. Issues like delays in delivering necessary
information as well as delays in processing land titles, difficulty in accessing land
information, falsification of survey information on land titles, and multiplicity and
duplication of the land titles have been noted. The researcher focused on the areas around
Kampala as it is one of those districts in Uganda that has more than one land tenure
rights coexisting on the same pieces of land.
This report focuses on the effectiveness of the land registration system in Uganda. The
objectives of the study are: to identify the functionality of the current land registration
systems in Uganda, to identify the challenges related with the land registration system
in Uganda and to propose different strategies for improving the land registration system
in Uganda. Data used during the research was primary and secondary data and
quantitative and qualitative research approach was used in data collection.
A sample of 10 officials at Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development (Officers
under the land registration department), 10 Officials from the Buganda Land Board
under the department of Land Management information systems well as 05 officers from
the lands division at high court in Kampala City was selected to be used by the
researcher. The researcher used simple random sampling method for the officials from
the land division at the high court and purposive sampling method was used for the
officials from the ministry of lands housing and urban development and the officials
from the Buganda land board. The researcher used an open ended and close ended
questionnaire with the use of a Likert scale rating from strongly agree to strongly
disagree to get opinions of respondents about different questions. Data collected was
sorted out, edited, coded, classified and then tabulated using Microsoft excel 2013.
Descriptive statistics were used in quantitative data analysis for example the use of
mean, standard deviation and frequencies.
Findings from the study have revealed that there has been an improvement in the land
registration system over time due to the introduction of the computerized system.
However, there are still more challenges being faced in the registration system. These
range from high costs incurred, bureaucratic tendencies, unreliable system being on and
off.vi
It has been concluded that the land registration system in Uganda has played a key role
in resolving various challenges on land. There has been computerization of the system
which has made accessibility to information easy and at a relatively affordable fee.