Uganda Refugee News - February 2023

Welcome to the thirty-eight edition of URN covering publication and news from February 2023

Given we have a number of new subscribers and as a reminder to the 'OGs' amongst you, I thought I'd explain how the newsletter's related website works. At its simplest, all the previous editions of the newsletter are available on the main page in date ascending order but possibly of more use is the sector pages which pull together all the newsletter sector sections in reverse order. There is one for Education, Environment, Health, Livelihood and Resilience, Protection, WASH, ....And the Rest - which is all the publications from the Other section of the newsletter.

Also, it turns out I'm not perfect and sometimes when researching for the newsletter, I find articles that got 'missed' from previous newsletters. I do add them to the website at the relevant places but make it clear it wasn't included in the original by putting NEW in front of it.

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Sector specific: Education:

• 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

• FCA - Back to school in Uganda: excitement and enthusiasm at start of new school year

• Forbes.com - Last Mile Learners Reflect Literacy Needs Across The Globe

• 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

• The Monitor - Language barrier hinders education access for refugees

• Washington University in St Louis - D&I SPOTLIGHT: Student collaborator works to support refugee mental health in Uganda

• UNESCO - Three more Secondary Schools in Uganda receive UNESCO Digital Library Device

Environment:

• World AgroForestry - Response to increased environmental degradation and promotion of alternative energy sources in refugee hosting districts in Uganda

Health:

• American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS)R) - The influence of COVID 19 on the social economic welfare of refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement.

• Current Developments in Nutrition - A Peer-Led Integrated Nutrition Education Intervention through Care Groups Improved Complementary Feeding of Infants in Postemergency Settlements in the West-Nile Region in Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial

• Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology - Psychological flexibility in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda as a mechanism for change within a guided self-help intervention.

• Journal of Scientific Research and Reports - Humanitarian Food Assistance and Nutrition Outcomes among Refugees: A Historical Perspective

• Makerere University - Factors associated with Covid-19 vaccine uptake among adult refugees in Kyangwali, Kikuube district-Uganda.

• MedRxiv - Determinants of male involvement in antenatal care at Palabek Refugee Settlement, Lamwo district, Northern Uganda

• Mendeley Data - Determinants of male involvement in antenatal care in Palabek Refugee settlement,Northern Uganda

• National Library of Medicine - Refugee caregivers: Associations between psychosocial wellbeing and parenting in Uganda

• PLOS One - Leveraging interactive voice response technology to mitigate COVID-19 risk in refugee settlements in Uganda: Lessons learned implementing “Dial-COVID” a toll-free mobile phone symptom surveillance and information dissemination tool

• Stress and Health : Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress - (pay for access) - Refugee caregivers: Associations between psychosocial wellbeing and parenting in Uganda.

Livelihoods

• Apple Podcasts - News on Refugees and Regenerative Agriculture in Uganda, Fossil Free Research, and the Revolutionary Love Project

• EIN News - P-World of Design Free Skilling Camp for Nakivale Refugee Settlement

• ICGLR – Exploring levels of self reliance, livelihood opportunities and alternatives to encampment among displaced populations in the Great Lakes region of Africa

• ILO - As a refugee, my new skills have given my family hope

• Innovations for Poverty Action - Can Aid Change Attitudes toward Refugees? Experimental Evidence from Microentrepreneurs in Urban Uganda

• New Vision - Refugees in West Nile trained on Climate Smart Agriculture

• ReDSS – Exploring levels of self reliance, livelihood opportunities and alternatives to encampment among displaced populations in the Great Lakes region of Africa

• RU Forum - Vertical Farming Comes to the Aid of Refugee Families

• WPDI - Empowering Women, Transforming Livelihoods: In 2022, WPDI Helped 285 Women Create 19 Cooperative Businesses at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• Yahoo News - Accion Receives Grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to Increase Livelihood Opportunities for Refugee Women in Ethiopia and Uganda

Protection

• NEW - CEPR - Child Poverty Among Refugees

• Makerere University - Causes of gender based violence in areas of humanitarian crisis, a case study of Kiryandongo refugee settlement, Kiryandongo District

Other:

• CEIS Working Paper No. 553 - Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda

• DCA - Congolese refugees in Uganda speak of horrors in the wake of renewed fighting in DR Congo - Uganda is first stop for many - at the Nyakabande transit centre they tell their stories. DCA has compiled a report with some of them.

• DSG Hub - Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion - A panel of digital savings group practitioners and DSG Hub vendors and product experts present, tools to accelerate safe, inclusive and sustainable digitization of savings groups.

• DW.com - (audio) - The 77 Percent - Refugees in Gulu, Uganda

• FEWS-Net - Uganda Price Bulletin, January 2023

• Forced Migration Review - pg 41 “We are well able to stand on our own if we are given the opportunities”: perspectives from affected populations in Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda -

  • Refugee Statistics January 2023

  • Refugee Statistics January 2023 (Settlement Profiles)

  • Refugee Statistics January 2023 - Active Population by Settlement

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda - Uganda Refugee Response (31 January 2023)

• The Hindu - South Sudan's President calls on refugees to return home

• International Olympic Committee - Olympic Refuge Foundation Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary of Game Connect Programme in Uganda

• IoM - Uganda Multi-Hazard Infographic - Response/DRR Platform (Published 22 February 2023)

• Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies - (pay for access) - Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements

• LWF - Uganda-South Sudan: Orientation for a safe return

• NTV - EU ambassadors pledge countries’ support for refugees

• The Monitor

  • Handle OPM scandals

  • Govt, donors struggle to settle more refugees amid budget cuts

  • Gov’t compulsory land acquisition policy to decrease land conflict- Minister Obiga

  • Technology: Catalyst for interagency coordination in Ugandan refugee crisis

• Obiaks Project - The Contribution Of UNHCR And Refugee Welfare In Uganda. A Case Study Of Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement Camp In Kamwengye District

• Refugee Led research - Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) in East Africa: Community Perceptions in Uganda

• Research and Evidence Facility - Gendered experiences of return and displacement in South Sudan: developing gender-sensitive policies and programming

• Science Norway - Refugees must participate in decision making that affect their own lives

• SoS Medias Burundi - Nakivale (Uganda): Uganda to collect tax in the refugee camp - The Uganda Revenue Authority plans to collect taxes on houses and households in the refugees. A campaign has been launched to explain the project which is not unanimous.

• UNHCR

  • South Sudan: 2023 Regional Refugee Response Plan at a Glance (January - December 2023)

  • South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (January - December 2023)

  • 2023 Year End Report for the South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan (January - December 2023)

  • East and Horn of Africa - Operational Update October-December 2022

• UNICEF - Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 6 (End of Year) January - December 2022

• University of Agder -

  • The Elusive Wellbeing of Refugees: Incompatibility between refugees’ experiences and development interventions. The case of Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda.

  • Norwegian NGOs in the nexus - This thesis looks at how Norwegian NGOs who work with projects including self-reliance elements experience the ruling relations and which space they have for developing their projects for refugees in Uganda

• VoA - UN Agency Seeks $600 Million for DRC Refugees

• Wageningen University - Relationality, Power Dynamics and Interwovenness of the Ugandan Humanitarian NGO Landscape

• World Bank - Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis 2021 - Uganda, 2021 - 2022 - This is the fourth wave of refugee and host community data collection under the RIMA methodology conducted in Uganda

• World Development - Inclusive refugee-hosting can improve local development and prevent public backlash

• WFP - Uganda Country Brief, January 2023

• World Vision - (video) - S.Sudan refugee influx update: WVU National Director Gilbert Kamanga

Events, Funding etc

Events

• WEBINAR - DSG Hub - Innovations in Savings Group Programming for Women's Empowerment - Thursday, March 16 - 9:30-11:00 EST - This session will explore innovations in savings group programming that have the potential to transform unequal gender norms, reduce violence, strengthen women's digital and financial inclusion and expand the benefits of savings groups for members with limited literacy and numeracy.

Training

• Disaster Ready - (log in/registration required) - The free Wider Impacts of Shelter & Settlements online course provides an introduction to humanitarian shelter and settlements response and its wider impact on other sectors. Learn how the provision of shelter and settlement assistance may affect your role and how to promote more collaborative programming to increase the impact of assistance to crisis-affected communities. This free course was created and generously donated by InterAction and USAID/BHA.

FEATURE

Agri-tech Actor Mapping

This mapping covers Agri-tech service providers offering services in the refugee response: settlements, as well as refugee hosting districts and Kampala. This includes actors working on off-farm and on-farm activities, ranging from input supply, to production, collection, post-harvest handling and processing to transportation to markets.