Uganda Refugee News - Edition 1: January 2020

Welcome to Edition 1

The idea behind this to provide a round up and share new research and information relevant to or on the Uganda refugee response, to enable all interested or directly engaged in the response to work more effectively and efficiently.

Initially this will be a monthly publication capturing publications and information from the previous month - as such the amount of information will vary accordingly. We do not pretend to be a comprehensive resource we just aim to include upcoming events, new publications and other interesting and relevant material. Submissions are extremely welcome – please send to URN@gmail.com and wherever possible, they will be included in the next version. To sign up for the newsletter - please click here

Sector specific:

Education:

• Forced Migration Review - Feasible measurement of learning in emergencies: lessons from Uganda https://www.fmreview.org/sites/fmr/files/FMRdownloads/en/education-displacement/dsa-krupar-westrope.pdf

Environment

• NEW - Energy Research and Social Science - Trees, tensions, and transactional communities: Problematizing frameworks for energy poverty alleviation in the Rhino Camp refugee settlement, Uganda - The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how interventions designed to alleviate energy poverty within displacement settings may bring about adverse effects - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338385517_Trees_tensions_and_transactional_communities_Problematizing_frameworks_for_energy_poverty_alleviation_in_the_Rhino_Camp_refugee_settlement_Uganda

Health:

• NEW - BMC Psychiatry - Gender differences in response to war-related trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder – a study among the Congolese refugees in Uganda - Even though it is clear that civilians who are exposed to potentially traumatizing events in war and conflict areas develop trauma-related mental health problems, scholarly information on gender differences on exposure to different war-related traumatic events, their conditional risks to developing PTSD and whether the cumulative exposure to traumatic events affects men and women differently is still scanty. The findings were that refugees were highly exposed to war-related traumatic events with experiencing dangerous flight as the most common event for both men (97%) and women (97%). The overall high prevalence of PTSD differed among women (94%) and men (84%). The highest conditional prevalence of PTSD in women was associated with experiencing rape. Conclusion: In conflict areas, civilians are highly exposed to different types of war-related traumatic events that expose them to high levels of PTSD symptoms, particularly women. Interventions focused at reducing mental health problems resulting from war should take the context of gender into consideration. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338522490_Gender_differences_in_response_to_war-related_trauma_and_posttraumatic_stress_disorder_-_a_study_among_the_Congolese_refugees_in_Uganda

• Suicides on the rise among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda -https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/1/5e2afb5b4/suicides-rise-among-south-sudanese-refugees-uganda.html

• Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30504-2/fulltext

Protection:

• NEW - World Bank - Violence Against Children : Prevention and Response - This note provides practical guidance on how to effectively identify, assess, and manage the risk of violence against children in a context of a development response to forced displacement. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33573

Other:

• NEW - Unpacking Vulnerability: An Ethnographic Account of the Challenges of Implementing Resettlement Programmes in a Refugee Camp in Uganda - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340238886_Chapter_7_Unpacking_Vulnerability_An_Ethnographic_Account_of_the_Challenges_of_Implementing_Resettlement_Programmes_in_a_Refugee_Camp_in_Uganda

• NEW - SSRN Electronic Journal - ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Prosocial Attitudes Between Refugees and Host Communities Exposed to Armed Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Northern Uganda - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339996391_%27Us%27_and_%27Them%27_Prosocial_Attitudes_Between_Refugees_and_Host_Communities_Exposed_to_Armed_Conflict_Experimental_Evidence_From_Northern_Uganda

• An analysis of Uganda’s 2019/2020 budget, focusing on Poverty Action Fund (PAF) allocations to four selected sectors – health, education, agriculture and social protection. https://devinit.org/documents/55/Report_Is-the-2019-20-Uganda-budget-pro-poor.pdf

• The Currency of Connections: The role of social connectedness among South Sudanese refugees in West Nile, Uganda - This report examines the importance of social relationships for South Sudanese refugees both during their flight and after their arrival in refugee settlements in West Nile, Uganda. Published in Jan 2020 - this report is based on interviews and focus group discussions conducted in Palorinya and Rhino Camp refugee settlements between March 2018 and February 2019. https://fic.tufts.edu/publication-item/the-role-of-social-connectedness-among-south-sudanese-refugees-in-west-nile-uganda/

• ECHO Factsheet - https://ec.europa.eu/echo/where/africa/uganda_en

• Integrated approaches to refugee management in Uganda - https://gsdrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/0U1/716_Integrated_Approaches_to_Refugee_Management_in_Uganda.pdf

• Connecting the Frontier: last-mile distribution in Bidi Bidi Settlement, Uganda - explores the opportunities for mobile money-enabled CVA, some of the challenges faced implementing mobile money in Uganda and presents strategies being explored to overcome challenges. https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Uganda_Mobile_Money_CVA_Case_Study_Web_Spreads.pdf

• “Tired of running” Repeated displacement and premature returns in South Sudan - examines the relationship between internal displacement, cross-border movements and durable solutions in South Sudan, based on more than 200 interviews in Bentiu and Juba https://www.southsudanpeaceportal.com/repository/tired-of-running-repeated-displacement-and-premature-returns-in-south-sudan/

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