• Project Name: To facilitate intra and inter-regional as well as national synergy building and experience sharing between clan and religious leaders, and other actors involved in tackling land matters
  • Client: TIPTESO
  • Location: Soroti , Uganda
  • Year Completed: 2020

Activity 3.1:      Organize bi-annual intra-regional review at Sub County level: involving clan and religious leaders, LCs, selected community members, as well as the early warning committee members, the land advisory teams, and the affiliated land right stakeholders and resource persons. TIP organised intra- regional review meetings at sub-county level. This provided a platform for peer learning for the Committees. The review meetings motivated the weak committees to improve on how they work as a team.  The Early Warning and Response System committees have been able to come up with a report that was shared with the district and sub-county leaders The report highlighted number of sensitizations held, cases and the number of vulnerable people supported by the Early Warning Teams on their own and the number of land disputes that have been referred to other stakeholders.

 

Activity 3.2:      Organize two inter-regional experience sharing and learning visits: This was intended to allow selected clan and religious leaders from Kamuda and Gweri Sub Counties to visit their counterparts in Acholi and vise-versa. TIP has held two inter-regional experience sharing and learning visit. The inter-regional experience sharing and learning visits were held in Padibe East and Lokung sub-counties in Lamwo District. The clan and religious leaders from Teso had an opportunity to learn how the elders in Acholi were managing to handle land conflicts. They noted that the Acholi had embraced their culture and clan norms more than their Teso counterparts. They also learnt that the Acholi women were as much   interested in land issues as men were. The committees pledged to encourage Teso women to get more interested in land matters. Acholi still has communal land which does not exist in Teso. People in Acholi do not intrude government land. These and many others were some of the take home lessons for the Iteso.

Activity 3.3:    Facilitate the participation of 46 selected clan and religious leaders from the target areas at the annual National Land Management Week and International Peace Week:

3.3.1:       Land Management Week events: TIP organized 2 land management week events. Which were localised in the communities of Gweri and Kamuda sub-counties, and 01 in Soroti town with other partners on land. During the land management events in soroti town, a position paper was developed to present the issues to the commission of inquiry on land related conflicts in the country. This events involved partners working on access to land justice in the Teso sub-region i.e. TAC, SOCAJAPIC, LEMU, TLAP and ICU; TERELEPAR, TEWPA, the District Land Office, the Community Liaison Office of Uganda Police, the Chief Magistrates office and representatives of the Central and District local government of Soroti.

3.3.2:       participation in International Day of Peace Celebrations: TIP facilitated the participation project participants from both Gweri and Kamuda in the International Day of Peace in Kadungulu sub-county Serere District. The decision to hold the celebrations in Kadungulu was joint from the Teso Peace Actors Coalition. As they were responding to a request from Serere District Local Government. The event provided an opportunity to the LAMP beneficiaries to share their experience on how they, as clan leaders, religious leaders and LCs who represent local government, work together to settle land conflicts. They had also an opportunity of sharing the achievements, challenges they meet along the way and how they mitigate such challenges. TIP has therefore participated in 2 events of International Day of Peace since the start of the project.

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