World Bank organises course on land acquisition

 

The Government of Uganda working together with Uganda martyrs University and BRAC Development Institute, Bangladesh with support from the World Bank are organising a training course on management of land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation between April 30th and May 4th 2014 in Mukono.

The five day course will target individuals, companies, and civil society organisations interested and or involved in land acquisition related activities.

Admission will be made on first come first served basis. The training fee is $700 per participant and includes room and board, and training materials. After the training, the participants will be awarded certificates on satisfactory completion of the course.

Every year hundreds of Ugandans experience loss of land and other assets and or displacements to development projects. Land acquisition when not handled well posses serious hardships and impoverishment risks like landlessness, loss of livelihoods.

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