Welcome to Edition 4
Our daily email influx is out of hand, its official! Of course, we read and register them all (right?!), but what if something you read, like the contents of these newsletters, is not immediately relevant but becomes so a few months later. How on earth would you go about finding this newsletter and as we publish more this situation will only get harder. Just imagine how many emails would come up if you ran a search using the terms 'Uganda' 'Refugee' 'News'! So in our ongoing efforts to help make your life easier and your work more effective and efficient, we decided to create a website where you can find all the previous editions of this newsletter - and all the articles - in one place. Other resources will be added in due course. Please check it out here Also, please don't forget that submissions are welcome, so if you're aware of a piece of work that you think others might be interested in, please send it to Ugandrefugeenews@gmail.com Last, but not least, feel free to share this with anyone you think might like it and they can sign up here to receive it going forward.
Sector specific:
Education:
Replication Data for: Student Migrant, Refugee or Both? Exploring refugee agency and mobility through tertiary education in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda - https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10411/C7PHIL
Challenges, perceptions and practices in education for South Sudanese children forced to flee conflict (purchase necessary) - https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004417014/BP000020.xml#container-29702-item-29701
Compounded exclusion: Education for disabled refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa - Disabled refugees have been invisible in policy and service provision, reliable data is very limited, and there has been little research into their experiences of educational inclusion and exclusion. This article makes the case for research to address this gap. Three country contexts (South Africa, Zimbabwe and Uganda) are presented to illustrate the multi-layered barriers and challenges to realizing the rights for disabled refugees in educational policy and practice. None has available and reliable data about the numbers of disabled refugees, and there is no published research about their access to education. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.00047/abstract
Windle Trust - Palorinya ECD education gap analysis 2019 - https://ugandarefugees.org/en/dataviz/117?sv=0&geo=220
Windle Trust - Palorinya primary education gap analysis 2019 - https://ugandarefugees.org/en/dataviz/114?sv=0&geo=220
Windle Trust - Palorinya secondary education gap analysis 2019 - https://ugandarefugees.org/en/dataviz/118?sv=0&geo=220
UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Education dashboard Quarter 4 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75064
Environment
UNHCR - Energy & Environment dashboard Quarter 4 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75072
UNHCR - Updated Environmental and Social Management Framework - ESMF for the Regional Operation on Development Response to Displacement Project in the Horn of Africa - Uganda Project - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/64604
Health:
Association between stigma and depression among urban refugees in Mbarara Municipality, Southwestern Uganda - In Uganda, the prevalence of mental disorders among urban refugees in general remains unknown and there is little epidemiological data to inform practice and policy in relation to the refugees’ mental health needs in urban areas. The aim of this study was to examine the association between stigma and depression among urban refugees. https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-17932/v1/manuscript.pdf
Essential newborn care practices and determinants amongst mothers of infants aged 0—6 months in refugee settlements, Adjumani district, west Nile, Uganda - This research found that newborn care practices were sub-optimal in this refugee setting. To improve newborn care practices, there is need to educate mothers through community-based health interventions in order to promote delayed bathing, ideal infant feeding, thermal and umbilical cord care. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231970
Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness Assessment and Risk Mapping in Uganda, August-September 2018 (nb: paid for content) - this study identified 40 ground crossings (13 official, 27 unofficial), 80 health facilities, and more than 500 locations in 12 high-risk districts along the DRC border. Ten of the 12 districts scored less than 50% on the preparedness assessment. It identified priority interventions to address risk of EVD importation and spread into Uganda. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/hs.2019.0118
UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Dashboard Q4 2019: Health & Nutrition Sector and Food Security
Livelihoods
NEW - UNHCR - Uganda policy brief - Targeting assistance programmes to persons with specific needs using socieconimic evidence solutions for refugees in Uganda settlements - https://www.unhcr.org/60804e094
NEW - ILO - Paving the way for better jobs and improving livelihoods for refugees and host communities in Arua, Uganda - An Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS) for Refugees and Host Communities. - https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---ddg_p/documents/publication/wcms_746266.pdf
ODI - In the Interest of Saving: Refugee‐led micro‐finance in Kampala, Uganda - this study found that refugee‐led micro‐finance groups have created a loan structure that is successful for refugees – because it was developed by refugees – with low default rates. However, despite filling an important gap in livelihoods assistance – the provision of business capital – refugee‐led micro‐finance groups lack large amounts of capital to loan members, and do not feel they provide adequate business, livelihoods, and financial literacy training. (access via request or purchase) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340728027_In_the_Interest_of_Saving_Refugee-led_micro-finance_in_Kampala_Uganda
IoM - Mapping responses by cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations to forced displacement. This study seeks to identify good practices; capture lessons learned and take note of potential areas of innovation by cooperatives and other SSE organizations with a view to enhancing their role in crisis response and promoting decent work for all. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---ddg_p/documents/publication/wcms_742930.pdf
The Impact of Volunteer Employment on Migrant Outcomes: Ugandan Perspective - Formal employment opportunities are limited in Uganda’s economy, especially for migrants and refugees (referred to here collectively as “migrants”)...[and] migrants tend towards employment in culturally-specific informal sectors. This essay seeks to show the importance of volunteer positions for migrants, how these opportunities differ between Kampala and the Bidi Bidi and whether these volunteer opportunities are privileging specific demographic groups- https://sites.tufts.edu/journeysproject/the-impact-of-volunteer-employment-on-migrant-outcomes-ugandan-perspective/
WFP - Weekly food prices for Uganda - covers foods such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar for 76 countries and some 1,500 markets. It is updated weekly but contains to a large extent monthly data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/wfp-food-prices-for-uganda
FAO - Food security indicators for Uganda- https://data.humdata.org/dataset/faostat-uganda-indicators-for-food-security
UNHCR - Livelihood and Resilience dashboard Quarter 4 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75071
Protection
UNHCR - Sector Dashboard Q4 2019: Child Protection, SGBV and Protection
WASH
UNHCR - WASH dashboard Quarter 4 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75070
GoU - Water and Environmental Refugee Response Plan 2019 - 2022 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75623
Other:
NEW - Uganda Flying Labs Maps the Nakivale Refugee Settlement for Infrastructural Planning and Development
NEW - UNICEF Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3 - March 2020 - https://reliefweb.int/report/uganda/unicef-uganda-humanitarian-situation-report-no-3-march-2020
Social Capital’s Role in Humanitarian Crises - Using qualitative and quantitative data from Uganda and Nigeria, this report shows how social capital matters even during the most severe crises. (nb: paid for content) https://academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jrs/feaa001/5814332
WFP - Internal Audit of WFP Operations in Uganda - Office of the Inspector General Internal Audit Report AR/20/06 https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000113412/download/
FEWS-NET - First-season agricultural activity progressing normally as COVID-19 control measures expand - https://fews.net/east-africa/uganda/key-message-update/march-2020
UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: 2019 Q4 Performance Snapshot and Operational Presence - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75061
UNHCR - Uganda Active Population by Settlement - March 2020 https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75455
UNHCR - Uganda Refugees Statistics Dashboard - March, 2020 https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75456
UNHCR - Uganda: Refugee Influx Dashboard (31 March 2020) - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75280
UNHCR - Refugees and asylum seekers statistics Map - March 2020 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/75287
Presence and refugee locations (as of 22 Jan 2020) - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/75573
UNHCR - Shelter, settlement and NFI dashboard Quarter 4 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/75069
UNHCR - CBI dashboard Quarter 4 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/75062
Training, Events etc:
Regional Call for Applications for Quality Education for Refugees and Host Communities (Iraq, Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya) - deadline June 2 - https://www.nuffic.nl/documents/1288/regional-call_for-grant-applications-tmt-plus-okp-qefr-40007.pdf
LSE - Gender, Justice and security hub - Applications are invited for new projects to contribute to the Hub’s portfolio of cross-cutting research, knowledge exchange, policy impact and innovation and capability-building activities. Deadline June 5 http://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/assets/documents/2020/Flexible-Fund/Call-for-New-Projects.pdf
Featured Book:
Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics
This book, written by the amazing Yotam Gidron (and coincidentally an ex colleague!) reveals Israel’s increasing efforts to form alliances in Africa, explaining what this means for the continent and wider geopolitics. It features - in Chapter 5 - a useful overview of the alleged deals between Israel and two unnamed states (assumed to be Uganda and Rwanda) to receive refugees involuntarily deported from Israel and sets it within Israel's broader interactions with the continent.
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