6 Min Read PADER, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the residents of a northern Ugandan village heard about a plan to document their land, they worried it was going to be stolen. But after photographing the land in Owele and taking coordinates, government officials gave people there something they never had before: pieces of paper proving the land they lived on was theirs. The lush grasslands of Owele, in Pader district, are regulated by clans, families and tradition, and before then had no formal land titles. Santa Otyeka, a 73-year-old parish leader, said her new land ownership document stopped her brothers-in-law from taking her land after the death of her husband.