Cura 1 - LEMU - The Land and Equity Movement in Uganda

The Principles, Practices, Rights and Responsibilities (PPRR) of Customary Tenure in Lango Region
Part 6 :
Control of land use.
13. The committees must not agree to the sale of land if:
Part 7 :
LANGO CULTURAL FOUNDATION
a) There is no written consent of widow(s), husbands, children and
a one third of adult family members.
b) Person/persons intending to sell the land once sold land for one
purpose but used the money for another purpose for which it
had been agreed.
c) The committee of the clan sub-county considers that not
much land is available for the family and what is left should be
preserved for the livelihoods of the family members and for the
future generation.
d) The clan committee considers the reason for selling land is
not good enough i.e. for drinking and fees for a child in lower
classes.
e) The clan considers that reasons for sale of the land in question
will make further sales of land imminent and will lead to
landlessness of the family members.
f) The people seeking to sell land have not followed the procedures
in this PPRR.
Land management.
14. The management bodies for land under customary tenure shall be
heads of families, clan committees and Lango Cultural Foundation
(LCF).
15. The Head of Family must:
a) Protect the rights of family members who are women, children,
sick and weak people, old and weak people and protect land
from irresponsible land transactions,
b) Manage family land and determine and mediate on family land
disputes without discrimination.
c) Allocate land fairly to individual members of the family
d) Ensure land is used for livelihoods of family members.