Assessing the impact of registration of leasehold interests on official Mailo land (kabaka’s land) on development a case study of Nansana Wakiso District

Abstract

Bibanja owners on Kabaka’s land face a number of challenges such as boundary conflicts, forceful evictions, limited access to credit facilities, tenure insecurity among others. In response to the specific problem of tenure insecurity and other problems faced by bibanja owners, Buganda Land Board (BLB) run a mass land registration and titling campaign between 2015 and 2018. The aim of the research was to examine the impact of the land registration and titling of bibanja owners in Nansana Municipality, Wakiso district of Uganda. Two main techniques were used to collect data: interviews with some key stakeholders and administering questionnaires with both open and closed ended questions. The quantitative data was organized and transformed for analysis and interpretation using SPSS software while the qualitative data using narrative analysis. The final data was presented in form of tables, figures, quotes and explanations that were provided by the participants.