About the Project
Land is history. Land is identity and Land is security.
For years, Northern Uganda, has been a source of conflict. For widows, for youth, for families already living on the edge, a land dispute rarely meant justice. It meant uncertainty. Fear that dragged on through courts that rarely moved fast enough to help.
Under RELAPU, (Responsible Land Policy Uganda) GIZ introduced another way. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Gender-sensitive leadership training and Community-based land mapping. Not a replacement for justice, but a faster, fairer route to it. Helping people settle disputes fairly, quickly, and peacefully, without ever setting foot in a courtroom.
I documented the project as a three-part personal stories, and a body of photography. Capturing both the impact of RELAPU and the human stories behind it.
My Approach
With the GIZ team, we travelled across Northern Uganda, interviewing local leaders, women’s groups, and families working through their disputes. Each film carries a different part of the RELAPU story.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
follows the community mediators themselves, women and men trained under the ADR model, sitting with families and helping them find a way through, together.
Kato’s Land
belongs to the widows and vulnerable women whose claim to land is too often ignored, or contested and taken away.
Self Financing
looks at the quieter work, land demarcation and documentation, the groundwork laid today so tomorrow’s disputes never have to happen.
Together, they document impact, elevate the voices carrying it, and give GIZ a way to make RELAPU’s value visible to national stakeholders and international partners.
