Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda: Mailo tenant endline evaluation
Heather Huntington, Kate Marple-Cantrell, Jack Jacobs, Paavani Arora
The World Bank is implementing an impact evaluation of land governance interventions on Mailo land by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) “Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda (ILGU)” pilot project. ILGU began implementation in 2017 and completed the pilot activities that are the subject of this report in 2023. Mailo is a type of customary land tenure that was created and semi-formalized during the colonial period, creating landlords and tenants. Mailo lands, which are mostly found in central Uganda close to Kampala, are prone to tenure insecurity and high levels of dispute that are further exacerbated by rising land values. ILGU’s goal is to increase the productivity and income of small-scale farmers on Mailo land by piloting interventions to strengthen land tenure security. The pilot interventions include land inventories (including a low-cost land survey using systematic demarcation), conflict mediation, and facilitating agreements with landlords. ILGU interventions were completed in coordination with the Government of Uganda. ILGU requested that the World Bank undertake a comprehensive impact evaluation (IE) of the ILGU pilot. The IE design is based on a geographic discontinuity approach on the subcounty borders; approximately 200 treatment and control Enumeration Areas were randomly selected around the sub-county borders. A listing was undertaken to identify Mailo tenants who were cultivating land in the selected Enumeration Areas and their landlords, and 2,800 households were randomly selected and interviewed at baseline. Also, those landlords living in the sampled Enumeration Areas were interviewed. Baseline data were collected in 2017, and endline data collection took place in 2023. This initial report presents the endline findings of the impact of the ILGU program on land documentation, busuulu payment, knowledge and awareness, land rights, perceived 1 tenure security, conflict, and land-related investment.
Event: World Bank Land Conference 2024 - Washington
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