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Title A pocket of inefficiency? Investigating the implementation of pastoral land rights in Karamoja
Full text http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/28370
Date 2016
Author(s) Løber, Trine; Rosenfelt Clausen, Bo; Worm, Peter
Contributor(s) Buur, Lars
Abstract This thesis explores the implementation of policy-prescribed pastoral land rights, and how actors at different levels influence the implementation process. More specifically, through six weeks of field research and extensive literature reviews, the thesis investigates why the implementation of pastoral land rights has stalled in Uganda's mineral-rich Karamoja region. Focus is directed towards the factors that may be decisive in determining the absence of implementation and realization of pastoral land rights, and how the absence of enforced rights provides a window of opportunity for actors and institutions to benefit from land as a resource. Arguing that implementation of policy is a political process, influenced by actors at local, regional, national and international levels, the thesis combines the access-literature's focus on the local level, with the land-grab-literature's focus on political and economic forces at play in implementation. Based on this approach, the thesis establishes the overall argument that local struggles over access to land are inextricably linked to the political economy, and that the outcome of implementation of land reforms can only be explored through an analytical framework that includes a focus on the interconnections between actors at all analytical levels. In the example of Karamoja, we suggest that the implementation of pastoral land rights come to constitute what we could call a local 'pocket of inefficiency,' as mutual interests between actors in the mineral sector and the ruling coalition do not require implementation of land rights, but rather the opposite.
Subject(s) Pastoralism; Land Rights; Implementation; Karamoja; Access; Political Settlement; Uganda; Policy
Language en_US
Type of publication Thesis; IU-studier / International Development Studies - Master thesis
Repository Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
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