Over the last decade, the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development has engaged in reforming the land sector through the formulation and enactment of an enabling legal framework, the establishment of land administration institutions, and land tenure regularisation.
According to the ministry, the computerised system has decentralised land governance through the establishment of 22 selfcontained one-stop Ministry Zonal Offices (MZOs) across the country, demonstrating a significant impact on strengthening land tenure security, reducing corruption, consolidating revenue, and improving service delivery.
With support from the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP), the Uganda National Land Information System (UgNLIS) is an initiative that has modernised Uganda’s land sector.
Dr Sam Mayanja, the state minister of lands, says with the installation of UgNLIS, the land dispute situation has improved, through computerisation by using software for automating the database and scanning land records.