Durante el Foro Mundial de Datos 2023 de la ONU en Hangzhou, China, tuve la oportunidad de participar en el Barómetro Global de Datos para medir el estado de los datos para el bien público y el logro de los ODS, que la Fundación Land Portal organizó junto con la Open Government Partnership (OGP), la Open Contracting Partnership y Open Data Watch (ODW).  

The land sector is increasingly being cited as a corruption hub. Many countries across the globe are grappling with land-related corruption that dates to the colonial years and which have metamorphosed into historical injustices and continue to be a source of conflict and violation of basic human rights. Cases of land grabbing, compensation-less expropriation, gender-based discrimination in accessing and ownership of land and related resources, illegal mining deals, bribing to access land administration services among others are not new in the lands sector.

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).