The Effect of Land conflict remedies on the Welfare of Women in Nakaloke Sub-County, Mbale District, Uganda

Abstract

The research study was conducted on the effect of land conflict, remedies on the welfare of women in Nakaloke sub county, Mbale District Uganda, the research was driven by the following objectives: to find the effect of political will as a land conflict remedy on the welfare of women in Nakaloke sub county, Mbale, to ascertain the effect of land legal instruments remedy on the welfare of women in Nakaloke sub-county, Mbale, to examine the effect of land legal procedural remedy on the welfare of women in Nakaloke sub county, Mbale. The study was based on the following hypotheses: H01: There is no significant relationship between political will as a land conflict remedy on the welfare of women in Nakaloke sub-county, H02: There is no significant relationship between legal instruments as a land conflict remedy cases and the welfare of women in Nakaloke sub-county, H03: There is no significant relationship between legal procedures as land conflict remedy and the welfare of women in Nakaloke sub-county. The researcher used a correlation design; the data was collected using questionnaires, schedules and the respondents were selected. The t value obtained between legal procedure and the welfare of women was .361 and therefore this revealed a significant relationship between legal procedure and the welfare of women and therefore we reject the null hypothesis. Also there was a significant relationship between legal instruments and the welfare of women revealed by a t value of 3.498 therefore we reject the null hypothesis. The study came up with the following recommendations: The government should restructure its political strategies to come up with a strategy which includes more women, also government ensure that a mechanism is put in place to bring such services closer to the local women, there should be massive sensitization of the women on their legal rights.