Uganda LAWA Fellow 2000-2001 L.L.B., Makerere University Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Law and Development Center, Uganda L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center Principal Land Officer/Governance Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment P.O. Box 7096 Kampala, Uganda Work Phone: 256-77-580344/256-77-506233 Email: nbkabanda@yahoo.com

Affiliations: FHRI

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Following the LAWA fellowship, Ms. Kabanda became the Principal Land Officer in the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment, and has been in charge of policies under the 1998 Land Act as well as various governance issues.

LAWA Experience:

During her fellowship, Ms. Kabanda focused on developing projects that effectively promote women’s property rights in Uganda. She completed her major research paper on “Women’s Access to and Control over Land in Uganda: A tool for economic empowerment,” wherein she discussed legal barriers to women’s inheritance and land ownership.

Following her graduate law degree, Ms. Kabanda worked on women’s land inheritance rights and other issues in her fellowship internship with the Africa Division at the World Bank.

Other Work Experience:

Prior to LAWA, Ms. Kabanda worked as the Senior Land Management Officer for the Mukono District Council in Uganda, implementing government land policies in the district and educating the public on land rights. She assisted women in her district on how to lease and purchase land, receive credit and use land for development. She also worked with women to secure succession and inheritance rights. She has been a member of FIDA-U since 1988.

Ms. Kabanda was Legal Advisor to VEDCO, involved in micro-finance programs in Luweero, Mpigi and Mubende Districts and in 1992, she co-founded the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), and organization that develops and implements innovative human rights advocacy strategies and programs and presses for meaningful law reform and respect for due process of law.