June 2022
UNHCR -
UN Women - video - Advancing women's leadership, empowerment, access and protection in Uganda's refugee response - This video documentary highlights the key successes of LEAP Phase one which was implemented in 2017 –2021 in Yumbe and Adjumani districts and highlights the focus of Phase II 2021-2025.
May 2022
March 2022
Refugee Survey Quarterly - Re-Thinking Protection for LGBTI Refugees in Kampala, Uganda: A Relational, Trust-Based Approach
February 2022
January 2022
Asian Journal of Business and Management - Refugees Adaptability on the Peaceful Coexistence with the Host Communities. A Case of Rwamwanja Refugee Camp-Uganda
October 2021
September 2021
IIngenta Connect - Survey of violence against women at a refugee settlement in Uganda
CEEOL.com - African Elderly Refugees’ Perspectives on Needs Assessment and Response Processes in Refugee Camps in Uganda - The findings of the study show that older persons perceive themselves as being selectively supported, while they also notice that there are no clear criteria to identify their needs which are not prioritized, support groups exclude some of the older refugees, and there are no specific organizations that work with older refugees. The recommendation is that older people should feel included in all decisions that target them throughout intervention programs or support projects cycles.
GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021, Quarter 2, January - March 2021 - Protection Dashboard; Gender-Based Violence Dashboard; Child Protection
Refugee Survey Quarterly - Re-Thinking Protection for LGBTI Refugees in Kampala, Uganda: A Relational, Trust-Based Approach
August 2021
Comparative Migration Studies - Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa
The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - (paid for content) - Social Enterprise Groups for South Sudanese Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Torture Living in Settlements in Northern Uganda
July 2021
AA.com - 10 Somali refugees fall prey to starvation, COVID-19in 2 weeks - Somali Community Association in Uganda says helping vulnerable refugees difficult due to pandemic lockdown
Global Womens Institute -
Risk, Identity and Conflict (paid for content) -
Why GBV Survivors Cannot Seek Help: The Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda - This paper explores how South Sudanese refugees in six refugee settlement areas in Uganda recognized GBV including their help-seeking pathways and identified what constitutes their decision to seek help/not seek help for themselves and even for others. The study confirmed that after residing in the settlement for several years, refugees’ GBV concerns are mainly domestic violence between partners rather than sexual violence committed by strangers. Their existing socio-cultural norms, the current referral mechanisms for help seeking within the refugee communities, and low expectation of outside services are barriers to refugees’ GBV help seeking. The paper recommended two forms for support: the support for social transformation on the existing gender norms within refugee communities, and the provision of material resources and capacity building for service providers in host-communities.
Negotiating the Gender-Based Violence Referral Pathway: Challenges and Opportunities in the Refugee Hosting Areas of Uganda - Based on a desk review of available literature, together with insights from previous field visits, this paper explores help-seeking strategies survivors adopt, forms of negotiations along the GBV referral pathway and reasons why survivors may choose either implicit or explicit forms of bargaining when seeking help.
Women Peace and Security: Sexual Gender-Based Violence Survivor Support in Refugee Settlements in Uganda - This paper is an attempt to identify the extent of which international gender norms have been materialized and implemented. The papers confirms the presence of support gaps and reiterates the need for further gender mainstreaming in both humanitarian aid and governmental policies and the role of humanitarian aid in the process.
May 2021
CrossBorderNetwork - Cases of defilement on the rise, in refugee settlements
March 2021
No Refuge: South Sudan's targeting of refugee HRDs outside the country - The majority of cases documented inthis report refer to incidents that happened outside of South Sudan, mostly in Kenya and Uganda.
UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021, Dashboard - Quarter 4, Jan - Dec 2020
February 2021
Effects of sexual and gender based violence on the livelihoods of refugee women in Uganda: A case of Palabek Refugee Settlement, Lamwo District - This qualitative study with a case study research explored the lived experiences of SGBV refugee women survivors, the level of awareness among the refugee women about SGBV and the existing interventions in place to address SGBV among the refugees. The study revealed that the SGBV refugee women survivors face several challenges including physical injuries, destruction of property, unwanted pregnancies, separation of family members, grabbing and selling of property, isolation and discrimination and excess drinking of alcohol. The level of awareness about SGBV among the SGBV refugee women survivors was influenced by culture, stigma and embarrassment, patriarchal domination and perceptions on the forms of SGBV. It highly impacted on the lives of the SGBV refugee women survivors, they left out most of the refugee men thus making it difficult to completely eradicate SGBV from refugee communities. The study therefore recommends that the government and Non-Governmental Organizations should put in place interventions that cater for the needs of both refugee men and women so as to completely solve the problem of SGBV.
Audio from Cross Border.net - The plight of child refugees - over 41,000 children crossed into Uganda for safety. Such figures make Uganda host of the largest number of unaccompanied child refugees in the world; according to UNHCR.
December 2020
NEW - Empowered Aid: Participatory action research with refugee women & girls to better prevent sexual exploitation & abuse | Uganda Country Report
UNHCR/OPM- PSN Assessment Report, October 2019 for Rhino Camp; Imvepi; Lobule
November 2020
Linking, Aligning and Convening Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children: Prevention and Response Services in Uganda’s Refugee-Hosting Districts - This publication details some of the responsive services and needs for holistic support to refugees, including mental health and psychosocial support. Community-based structures, such as para-social workers, child protection committees, and village health teams, play a key role in providing psychosocial support services to survivors, including counseling, advising them in seeking legal support, and linking them to NGOs for additional help. It details capacity building and training needs to equip these workers, case management approaches, design of child-friendly spaces and referral pathways.
REACH/UNHCR/WFP - Vulnerability and Essential Needs Assessment, Volume One, October 2020
Understanding the role of interpersonal violence in assisted partner notification for HIV: a mixed-methods study in refugee settlements in West Nile Uganda
UNHCR/OPM - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021, SGBV Dashboard - Quarter 3, January - September 2020
UNHCR/OPM - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021, Protection Dashboard - Quarter 3, Jan - Sep 2020
UNHCR/OPM - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021, Child Protection Dashboard - Quarter 3, January - September 2020
October 2020
UNHCR/OPM - Report on the Comprehensive Child Protection Assessment for Bidi Bidi - Bidi Bidi child protection working group 2020
Addressing the security needs of adolescent girls in protracted crises: Inclusive, responsive, and effective? (paid for content) - Drawing from field research conducted in four crisis contexts including Uganda, this article explores the experiences of insecurity that adolescent girls face in crisis contexts, and the extent to which responses to their needs are inclusive, responsive, and effective. The article argues that marginalizing adolescent girls in the development and implementation of programs compromises the ability for such programs to be responsive to their needs and misses the opportunity to employ their skills, knowledge, and strengths to build resilience and security within their communities.
September 2020
Practice-based learning: Establishing simple monitoring systems to support SGBV programming in refugee settings - This program brief documents the process employed by the Sauti/VOICE project to implement simple monitoring systems that record service progress, reveal issues that need to be resolved, and provide evidence of how well interventions are working.
UNHCR - Child Protection Dashboard, SGBV Dashboard, Protection Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2020
August 2020
The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance - this book explores the role that refugee-led organizations in Uganda and Kenya play in providing social protection. Based on research over a 15-month period in Kampala, Nakivale, Nairobi and Kakuma, the authors introduce the theoretical framework of ‘global governed’ to analyse the ways in which refugees in these diverse settings navigate complex structural constraints to provide protection in their communities.
IDS - Integrating Humanitarian Response with Social Protection Systems: Limits and Opportunities - This policy briefing uses research from three countries (inc Uganda) to consider how SRSP should be implemented, making four recommendations for policymakers working in humanitarian response, disaster risk management and social protection.
UNHCR - Documenting peaceful co-existence in the context of COVID-19
Assault and care characteristics of victims of sexual violence in eleven Médecins Sans Frontières programs in Africa. What about men and boys? Often neglected, male-directed sexual violence (SV) has recently gained recognition as a significant issue. MSF systematically documented these in all victims admitted to eleven SV clinics in seven African countries (inc Uganda) between 2011 and 2017. The study found that patterns of male-directed SV varied considerably according to contexts and age categories. A key finding was the importance of the clinic setup; integrated medical and SV clinics, where initial disclosure was not necessary to access care, appeared more likely to meet males’ needs, while accommodating females’ ones.
UNHCR - East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region SGBV – Regional Overview, March-July 2020
UNHCR - Voluntary Repatriation of Burundian Refugees, Update as of 31 July 2020
1st group of Burundian refugees returning home from Rwanda
July 2020
Fuel to the fire: The escalating interplay of attachment and maltreatment in the transgenerational transmission of psychopathology in families living in refugee camps - this study looks at Burundian refugees in Tanzania, but the findings are likely to be relevant to the Uganda setting, hence its inclusion. The findings suggest a vicious cycle, wherein an insecure attachment to a mother suffering from psychopathology may be linked to children's risk to be maltreated, which may reinforce insecure representations and perpetuate the pathogenic relational experience. Interventions targeting the attachment relationship and parental mental health may prevent negative child outcomes
UNHCR Protection Cluster - 2020 Child Protection Sub Working Group Work Plan: Uganda – Kampala (to be reviewed in July 2020
June 2020
World Bank - Protecting and Supporting Children from Violence in Uganda’s Refugee Hosting Areas - https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/06/10/protecting-and-supporting-children-from-violence-in-ugandas-refugee-hosting-areas
US State Dept - Safe from the Start Initiative Evaluation report - https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/SftS-Final-Evaluation-Report-PRM.pdf
A Critical Overview of Gender –Based Violence in Uganda - http://www.worldscholars.org/index.php/ajhss/article/download/1028/665&hl
UNHCR/GoU - Sector dashboard Quarter 1 2020 for Protection , Child protection, SGBV
May 2020
UNHCR - PSN SWG Protection analysis impact COVID 19 on PSNs refugee communities - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/76279
April 2020
UNHCR - Sector Dashboard Q4 2019: Child Protection, SGBV and Protection
March 2020
NEW - UNHCR Sexual and Gender Based Violence Thematic Report-December 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/74488
NEW - UNHCR Legal and Physical Protection Thematic Report-December 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/74489
NEW - UNHCR Community Based Protection Thematic Report-December 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/74491
NEW - UNHCR Child Protection Thematic Report-December 2019 - https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/74487
MDPI - South Sudanese Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Torture: Health and Justice Service Responses in Northern Uganda https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/5/1685/pdf
JICA-RI - The Variety of People in Refugee Settlements, Gender and GBV: The Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda - this paper looks at the variety that make up a settlement and how this affects the relationship between aid and refugees and how refugees view both gender and GBV. Various kinds of relationships between staff, incentive workers, and refugees have developed within the settlements, These have made the refugee/staff boundaries ambiguous and have influenced the understanding of gender and GBV among refugees. However, refugees also have their own social space that is inaccessible to aid workers. Field study was in Adjumani. https://jicari.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=1044&item_no=1&page_id=15&block_id=22
February 2020
Violence Against Women in Camps? Exploring Links between Refugee Camp Conditions and the Prevalence of Violence - Based on empirical research, mainly conducted with Congolese refugees, the chapter reveals that sexual violence, domestic violence and structural discrimination constitute the main forms. These occur despite humanitarian projects implemented to protect and assist refugees and especially women.
UNHCR Monthly Protection Updates for November 2019 in: Urban protection response, legal and physical protection, child protection, SGBV, education, RSD, community based protection
January 2020
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.