EDUCATION
Below you will find all the articles and publications from each of the monthly newsletters - in retrospective date order - that are focused on education issues.
NOVEMBER 2023
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Africa News - Uganda: The literacy specialist getting children to read and write
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Finn Church Aid - From refugee settlement to graduation gown
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GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Education dashboard Quarter 3 2023
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JRS - The journey of Aamira, to help other refugee women and girls determine their own future
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Monitor - Early childhood centres give hope to children in West Nile
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NTV - (video) -
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ResearchGate - (request for access) - Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach
SEPTEMBER 2023
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JRS -
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Global Refugee Leaders - PASHA workshop in Kampala Empowers Refugees Through Art expressions
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences - Partnership for education in refugee-host contexts: Joint learning towards food security and sustainable development in Uganda
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Social Inclusion - Bidi Bidi Creativity: The Liminality of Digital Inclusion for Refugees in Ugandan Higher Education
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UNESCO - Let's Talk Learning with Joel Baraka
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University of Edinburgh - Integrating refugee students into Ugandan higher education: Language, othering and everyday enactments of participation
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Windle International Uganda -
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World Congress of Architects - (pay for access) - Redistributing Opportunity: Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre, Uganda
AUGUST 2023
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Education and Conflict Review - Ensuring effective teacher management in refugee settings in the COVID-19 era: A Ugandan case study of policy and practice
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Eduation Development Trust - EDT and IIEP-UNESCO bring ministers together for key knowledge workshop in Ugandan refugee settlement
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GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2023
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The Independent - Govt advised to use digital learning programme to address literacy, numeracy skills
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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
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New Vision - Friendly school environment key to children's learning
JULY 2023
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GAAMAC - GAAMAC’s partner implements training for refugees in Northern Uganda
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Nile Post - Poor quality education in refugee camps in Uganda
JUNE 2023
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Research in Comparative & International Education - Integrating refugee students into Ugandan higher education: Language, othering and everyday enactments of participation
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U-Learn - Mobile TVET programming in the Uganda refugee response
MAY 2023
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Chimp Reports - Uganda launches Shd 1.6 tn education response plan for refugees
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Education cannot wait - Education Cannot Wait Announces US$4.1 Million First Emergency Response Grant in Uganda: Total ECW Funding in Uganda Tops US$76 Million
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FCA - FCA’s LEARN project is improving access to quality education in Uganda
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GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Term 1, 2023
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Malteser International - Environmentally friendly school inaugurated in the Rhino refugee camp in Northern Uganda
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Ministry of Education and Sport - Uganda Skills Development in Refugee and Host Communities (USDRH) Project, P176263 - ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP)
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Social Inclusion - Bidi Bidi Creativity: The Liminality of Digital Inclusion for Refugees in Ugandan Higher Education
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Windle Trust - Accelerated Education Program is Transforming Lives of Refugees and Host Community Learners
APRIL 2023
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FCA - Breaking barriers: FCA Uganda ensures access to education for children with disabilities
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Journal of Refugee Studies - Who Can Participate, Where, and How? Connections between Language-in-Education and Social Justice in Policies of Refugee Inclusion
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Save the Children - Endline Assessment for Catch-up Clubs Project in Three Refugee Settlements in Western Uganda
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University of Edinburgh - Bidi bidi creativity: The liminality of digital inclusion for refugees in Ugandan higher education
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UNHCR - UNHCR launches new edition of University Corridors for Refugees - 35 Italian universities will take part in the fifth edition of University for Refugees (UNICORE) -- a scholarship program designed to enable refugee students to continue their higher education in Italy. The selection process is based on both merit and motivation. This year, the UNICORE program made 61 placements available to refugee students from Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
MARCH 2023
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Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Legal Studies - Effectiveness of the Education in Building Self-Reliance Skills among Refugee Students in Uganda
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Education Cannot Wait - Education Cannot Wait Renews Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Uganda with US$25 Million in Catalytic Funding Investment; Calls on Donors to Scale-Up Support
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DEPA - Talking Pictures: Amplifying the voices of refugee women in the urban settlements of Kampala
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GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Term 3, 2022
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Malteser Int'l - Environmentally friendly school inaugurated in the Rhino refugee camp in Northern Uganda
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MIT News - Giving refugees design education — and newfound hope
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The Monitor - How South Sudan refugees emerged top in UACE results
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No.1 Citizen - Refugee students decry lack of tuition for further studies
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NTV - (video) - Researchers cite challenges in schooling for refugees
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UNICEF - Including refugee learners so that every child learns (Uganda)
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University of Edinburgh - Foundations for All Toolkit - the project aimed to design and implement a blended bridging programme across two sites in Uganda to support refugee and disadvantaged host community students wishing to study at University.
FEBRUARY 2023
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Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education - “My teachers make me feel alive”: the contribution of student-teacher relationships to student well-being in accelerated education programmes in South Sudan and Uganda
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FCA - Back to school in Uganda: excitement and enthusiasm at start of new school year
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Forbes.com - Last Mile Learners Reflect Literacy Needs Across The Globe
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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy - A critical review of the research evidence on early childhood education and care in refugee contexts in low- and middle-income countries
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The Monitor - Language barrier hinders education access for refugees
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Washington University in St Louis - D&I SPOTLIGHT: Student collaborator works to support refugee mental health in Uganda
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UNESCO - Three more Secondary Schools in Uganda receive UNESCO Digital Library Device
JANUARY 2023
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NEW - Save the Children - Endline Assessment for Catch-up Clubs Project in Three Refugee Settlements in Western Uganda
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GCA Foundation - The Foundation, UNHCR and Sida continue to join forces to ensure financial inclusion for refugees in Uganda
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IDS - Disability inclusive early childhood development and education in humanitarian settings
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Makerere University -
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UN Women - In the words of Alice Ledu: “I feel happy that I can contribute to my family’s well-being.”
DECEMBER 2022
African Business - Second chance education offers new ray of hope for South Sudanese refugees living in Uganda
AVSI - AVSI humanitarian projects at Palabek refugee settlement - A photographic reportage tells how Northern Uganda has changed with AVSI. In this episode we go to the refugee settlement of Palabek, to discover the projects to guarantee the right to education to the children and young people in the camp, and to provide psychological support with a community approach.
Makerere University - CEES, Jesuit Refugee Services Launch Scholarships for Refugees, Asylum Seekers & Vulnerable Women
The Monitor - Refugees, host communities in West Nile, Kiryandongo receive Shs4.6b grant
TARL - Fellows support Community Education Volunteers to teach foundational skills in rural communities
The Observer - We Need More Effort for Refugees to Access Tertiary Education
NOVEMBER 2022
ELRHA - Research snapshot - Child friendly spaces: understanding effective implementation - This randomised controlled trial compared the effectiveness of two approaches to implementing Child Friendly Spaces in the West Nile refugee response, finding strong evidence that both approaches can have immediate as well as longer-term psychosocial benefits for younger children and adolescents. However, they had limited impact on strengthening community capacities for child protection and MHPSS.
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Simbi Foundation - The Impact of EduTech in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement’s Schools
UNESCO - Providing early childhood education for refugees in Uganda
OCTOBER 2022
AHEEN Network - Presentation - Higher education in emergencies - Leveraging refugee potential for sustainable livelihoods - 06 October 2022
AJOL - Increasing access to education for refugees in Uganda
Asbat Library - Low primary school enrolment among refugee children in Nakivale Settlement, Isingiro District, Uganda
CWG - Uganda Refugee Response Financial Literacy Training Minimum Standards - Sept 2022
News24/7 - British Council in Uganda Launches Report on refugee school Handbooks
New Vision - Experts call for new policies to guide refugee education
Sunday Vision - Educating refugees against all odds in Uganda
UNHCR - Arua Operation Term II 2022 Primary Education Gap Analysis
UNICEF - Including refugee learners so that every child learns (Uganda)
SEPTEMBER 2022
Library of Congress - Library of Congress Announces Winners of 2022 Literacy Awards on International Literacy Day - Recipients Include Street Child, Make Way for Books and Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID)
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U-Learn/CWG - Uganda Refugee Response Financial Literacy Training Minimum Standards - These minimum standards look at the basic content and practices necessary for a training to qualify as a FLT. They cover aspects of FLT like planning and delivery of the training, monitoring and evaluation, and others. These standards are developed to contribute to the promotion of FLT, and ultimately self-reliance in Uganda’s refugee response.
UNHCR - ‘I have seen first-hand how children’s education has suffered’
UNICEF - Including refugee learners so that every child learns (Uganda)
AUGUST 2022
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GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - Education dashboard
JULY 2022
JUNE 2022
Harvard Library - Language for an unknowable future: How language ideologies and pedagogies shape the lives of refugee children - this research examines how language-in-education policies and practices—and particularly those privileging English—influence refugee children’s relationships to school, self, and home, and the ways their experiences of language at school may differ from those imagined by education authorities.
Techno - TECNO expands partnership with UNHCR to support higher education in Africa for refugees - now supporting refugee scholars in Africa to complete four-year higher education and providing internship opportunities at its branches or subsidiaries in Africa for refugee students if the national policy allows and their qualifications match the positions.
University of Edinburgh - The role of institutional practice, non-educational actors, and social networks in shaping refugee student lifeworlds in Ugandan higher education
MARCH 2022
International Journal of Educational Development - Effects of including refugees in local government schools on pupils’ learning achievement: Evidence from West Nile, Uganda
New Vision - Equating of refugees’ academic qualifications with Ugandan ones starts
FEBRUARY 2022
MARCH 2021
British Council - Technical Launch of Language use in refugee-impacted schools in Uganda report 2021
NRC - Refugee Status, Gender and Learning - This data report provides details from a survey of applicants to the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Accelerated Education Program in Northern Uganda, 2020. The surveys covered a range of topics, such as demographic and socioeconomic background, school attendance, academic skills, social control, feelings and perceptions on various topics, and future aspirations