Uganda Refugee News - August 2023

Education and Conflict R\review - Ensuring effective teacher management in refugee settings in the COVID-19 era: A Ugandan case study of policy and practice

Eduation Development Trust - EDT and IIEP-UNESCO bring ministers together for key knowledge workshop in Ugandan refugee settlement

GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2023

The Independent - Govt advised to use digital learning programme to address literacy, numeracy skills

International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies - Processes, products and lessons in translating policies into practice: The case of IGAD teacher training initiative in refugee and host community secondary schools

New Vision - Friendly school environment key to children's learning

Global Giving - Helping trees to regenerate is as worthy as growing trees from seedlings and often surer and faster

GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Environment and Energy dashboard Quarter 2 2023

Nile Post - Addressing Environmental Impact: Uganda's Call for Renewable Energy in Refugee Communities

Uganda Radio Network - Reforestation to Support Refugees Underway in Terego

BMJ - Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey

European Journal of Psychotraumatology - Gender differences in substance use and associated factors among urban refugees in Uganda

Monitor - Yumbe refugee girls struggling with menstrual hygiene

New Vision -

• Refugee hosting districts get health emergency response boost

• Over 3000 poeple to benefit from GROW project

Research Square - Understanding the organisation and delivery of health service
 following the repatriation of South Sudanese refugees from the West Nile districts in Uganda

Science Direct - The role of mindfulness, psychological capital, and social capital in the well-being of refugees in Uganda

Syracuse University - The Geopolitics of Refuge and Reproduction: Maternal Health and Healthcare of Congolese Refugees in Flight, Displacement, and Resettlement

WFP - ‘I feel like the proudest mother in the world’: WFP supports breastfeeding in Uganda - How the Swedish-funded NutriCash project, implemented by UNICEF and the World Food Programme, is changing the lives of refugee women

Uganda Red Cross - Menstral Hygiene kits restore dignity and empower girls and women in Bidibidi refugee settlement

African Business - Refugee hosting communities to get internet connections

Chimp Report - GROW Project’s Steering Committee Convenes First Sitting

CIP - Refugee, host communities find relief and stability in Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato

GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Quarter 2 2023 - CBI Dashboard; Food Security Dashboard; Health and Nutrition; Cash Based Interventions Dashboard

New Vision - Refugee women urged to embrace competitiveness in entrepreneurship

Nile Post - Refugee, host communities find relief and stability in Orange-fleshed Sweet potato

Mercy Corps - Tech innovations help build food security

Pulse -

• Gov't launches livelihood plan for refugees, host communities in Western Uganda

• NITA to extend internet to refugee hosting communities

REACH - Monitoring urban refugee influxes due to food assistance changes in Uganda - Round 1, August 2023

Rice University - Rice study: Children are usually the poorest members of refugee communities

Science Direct - (pay for content) - Child poverty among refugees

UBC - Minister Nyirabashitsi Launches Ambitious Livelihood Plan for Refugees and Host Communities in Western Uganda

UNDP - Enhancing local trade for host communities and refugees through market infrastructure

UNHCR - UNHCR - Uganda: Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion Strategic Directions 2023 - 2028

Vision Fund - ‘I feel part and parcel of Uganda despite being a refugee’

VoXDev - Helping refugees integrate into the labour market: Evidence from Uganda

European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations - Uganda: how a gender-based violence survivor became a role model for women in emergencies

IRC - Gender-based violence in crisis - What is gender-based violence – and how do we prevent it?

GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Quarter 2, January - June 202; Protection dashboard; Child protection dahsboard

Lund University - The Limits to Cognitive Social Capital as a Protective Factor: Examining the Buffering Effects between Intimate Partner Violence and Depression among Congolese Refugee Women

New Vision - Uganda has highest number of unaccompanied refugee children

Southern African Public Law - Cost-benefit Assessment of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women Reporting Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Uganda: Assessing Women’s Resilience as a Means to Protect their Ethno-religious Group

NEW - Lund University - Responding to the Needs of the Most Vulnerable - A Case Study of the Refugee Response on MHM and WASH in the Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement

GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, WASH Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2023

African Business - (subscription required) -

• Uganda: Members of Parliament call for increased deployment at South Sudan border

• The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) study finds long-term refugees at risk of statelessness in the Great Lakes region

GoU/UNHCR

• Operational Presence Quarter 2 2023

• Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP 2022-23) - - Quarter 2 2023 - Nakivale Performance Dashboard; Oruchinga Performance Dashboard; Lobule Performance Dashboard; Palorinya Performance Dashboard; Adjumani Performance Dashboard; Kyaka II Performance Dashboard; Kyangwali Performance Dashboard; Nakivale Performance Dashboard; Rwamwanja Performance Dashboard; Palabek Performance Dashboard; Kiryandongo Performance Dashboard; Imvepi Performance Dashboard Bidi Bidi Performance Dashboard

• Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, - Quarter 2, January - June 2023 - Shelter and Settlements Dashboard

• Uganda Refugee Response: National Performance Snapshot Quarter 2 2023

• Performance Snapshot, Uganda Refugee Country Response Plan (UCRRP) 2022-2023 Performance Dashboard - Quarter 2 2023

• Refugee Statistics Map - July 2023

• Population Dashboard: Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda as of 31 July 2023

• Refugee Statistics July 2023

• Refugee Statistics July 2023 - Settlement & Urban Profiles

• Uganda Refugees & Asylum Seekers as of 31 July 2023

• Suicide Dashboard July 2023

• Analysis of Suicide Incidents broken down by age and sex (July 2023)

ICGLR -

• Press release: ICGLR-UNHCR study finds long-term refugees at risk of statelessness in the Great Lakes region.

• Outcome document of Experts Conference on Eradication of Statelessness and Access to Legal Identity Documentation in the Great Lakes Region

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction - Exploring gaps in using digital delivery mechanisms for cash-based assistance in refugee crises

Monitor -

• W.Nile leaders to turn refugee presence into urban opportunities

• A community radio in West Nile: Story of solutions journalism and relevance

• How EU projects spur development in refugee hosting communities

Nile Post - 150 community leaders in Kampala trained on refugee rights

NTV - UNHCR urged to find sustainable solutions to regional conflicts

Oxfam - Uganda Humanitarian Interviews

UBC - Nakivale refugee settlement - Conflict resolution key to refugees’ stability

UNHCR -

• Operational Update (June 2023)

• Uganda Factsheet - June 2023

• Ruyigi Sub-Office Operational Map - 31 July 2023

• Regional Dashboard RB EHAGL

  • Operational Update April - June 2023

  • Quarterly Factsheet

  • Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum as of 31 July 2023

  • Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region as of 31 July 2023

  • Refugees and asylum-seekers by situation as of 31 July 2023

• Refugees from generation to generation - preventing statelessness by advancing durable solutions on the Great Lakes Region

• Democratic Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan Dashboard - June 2023

UNICEF - Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3: January - June 2023

USAID - USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance: Uganda Country Assistance Overview (August 2023)
 

UNCDF - Call for Applications - RFA: Financial Literacy, digital literacy and business development skilling for refugees to improve their livelihoods through access to finance and income generating activities in Uganda