Customary rights and forest tenure reform in Uganda
Channel: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Date: 2019-10-03

In northern Uganda, forests are owned and managed communally by customary institutions. Since the 10-year civil war in the area ended in 2007, communities have been working to reorganize those institutions, and the national government has introduced tenure reforms to strengthen the participation of community groups in managing forest land. In this video, stakeholders in northern Uganda provide insights into the process of forest reform, and community representatives recount their experiences of trying to formalize customary forest rights. The video is part of a series on the implementation of forest tenure reform in Uganda, which emerged from the Global Comparative Study on Land Tenure Reform, led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).