Namati

I am the Director of Namati’s Community Land Protection Program. I work to increase land tenure security for rural communities, and also have experience working on issues of access to justice and legal empowerment.

I previously served as Director of the International Development Law Organization’s (IDLO) Community Land Titling Initiative, working to document and protect the customary land rights of indigenous groups in Uganda, Liberia and Mozambique. I also worked as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 2004 until 2009. From 2002 until 2007, I founded and ran medical-legal partnership programs in Northern California that located legal services in primary care medical clinics to increase access to justice for low-income urban communities. I recently completed a book for the FAO entitled Statutory Recognition of Customary Land Rights in Africa.