Uganda Refugee News - April 2023

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Sector specific: Education:

• FCA - Breaking barriers: FCA Uganda ensures access to education for children with disabilities

• Journal of Refugee Studies - Who Can Participate, Where, and How? Connections between Language-in-Education and Social Justice in Policies of Refugee Inclusion

• Save the Children - Endline Assessment for Catch-up Clubs Project in Three Refugee Settlements in Western Uganda

• University of Edinburgh - Bidi bidi creativity: The liminality of digital inclusion for refugees in Ugandan higher education

• 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.

Environment & Energy:

• Adelphi - Climate, Peace and Security Study: Uganda, West Nile sub-region

• Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal - The Impact of Refugee Settlement on Landscape and Green Environment in Yumbe District West Nile Sub Region, Uganda

• Politecnico Torino - Remote areas of the World: metholodology for development through the implementation of renewable energy facilities - using a case study of Bidi Bidi (amongst others)

Health:

• African Health Sciences - Examining the maternal health services-seeking behaviour among adolescent urban refugees in Kampala, Uganda

• CDC - Uganda Refugee Survey Shows Low Prevalence of HIV and Strong Progress Towards Controlling the HIV Epidemic

• Europe PMC - Determinants of malaria infections among children in refugee settlements in Uganda during 2018-2019

• IDRC - The sexual and reproductive health needs and challenges of adolescent girls and young women in humanitarian settings in Nigeria and Uganda: A Quantitative Report

• Red Cross - Uganda Red Cross Society boosts menstrual hygiene in Nakivale refugee settlement.

• USAID - Nutrition Status of Refugee and Host-Country Children: Negotiating for Equal Distribution of Relief Food during Emergencies in Uganda

Livelihoods & Resilience

• NEW - Jobtech Alliance - Jobtech for Refugees research now available: Kampala Case Study

• CARE - VSLAs in emergencies - Research Study on Village Saving and Loan Associations - 6 April 2023

• The East African - WFP food aid cuts leave Uganda refugees to rely on kitchen gardens

• Lei Institute - Financial Inclusion and Financial Health in Migration Contexts

• Reuters - Aid shortage leaves refugees in Uganda reliant on kitchen gardens

• REACH/U-Learn - The Realities of Self-reliance within the Ugandan Refugee Context

• Uganda Radio Network - (registration required) - Refugees Demand More Land As WFP Moves to Prioritise Vulnerable Households
  

WASH

• NIRAS - A positive impact in the education and WASH sector for refugees and host communities in Northern Uganda

Other:

• D&C - Seizing the potential of migration and displacement - Migration has both positive and potentially negative effects on the lives of individuals, as well as on states and multilateral relations. It is important to promote the transformative potential of migration and, in the context of displacement, to make meaningful use of synergy effects, for example with humanitarian aid.

• DCA - Presentation - DCA: Funding community-led crisis responses - DCA's experience with Survivor Community-Led Response and Group Cash Transfers - 6 April 2023

• The Eagle - Hilton Foundation offers UGX 18bn to Opportunity Bank Finca for refugee financing

• GoU/UNHCR

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

  • Uganda Active Population by settlement: 31 March 2023

  • Refugee Statistics March 2023 - Adjumani

  • Refugee Statistics March 2023

  • Refugee Statistics Map - March 2023

  • Refugee Statistics March 2023 - Settlement & Urban Profiles

  • Refugee Statistics March 2023 - Active Population by Settlement

• Impact Initiatives/UNHCR - Uganda: Participatory Assessment Settlement Profiles 2022

• The Independent - South Sudan, Uganda security authorities commit safe cross border movement for refugees

• Makerere University - Changing masculinities among Congolese male refugees living in urban Uganda: a case of Nsambya, Kampala

• The Monitor - Women empowerment promotes peaceful co-existance for all

• The New Humanitarian - EXCLUSIVE: Uganda’s refugee programme hit by fresh fraud concerns

• The Observer - Launch of STA II important in refugee management in Uganda

• UNHCR/REACH - Participatory Assessment Final Report 2022

• UNHCR - Analysis of Suicide Incidents broken down by age and sex (Q1 2023)

• UNICEF - Japan contributes US$ 7.9 million to support efforts towards refugees and host communities in Uganda and food and nutrition security in Karamoja sub-region

• WFP -

  • Impacts of the Cost of Inaction on WFP Food Assistance in Eastern Africa (2021 & 2022), April 2023

  • Uganda Country Brief, March 2023

  • Uganda Annual Country Report 2022 - Country Strategic Plan 2018 - 2025

Events, Funding etc Training

• DAAD - The Leadership for Africa - East African Scholarship programme - National or refugees in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania or Uganda Bachelor degree holders looking to study for a Master's degree in Germany.

• 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 The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion Buzzwords play an important role in setting up the scope and direction of aid policies. Alongside the growing focus on development-led approaches in the international refugee regime, three buzzwords – self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion – have achieved particular prominence in recent refugee policy-making. Drawing upon a review of policy documents and multi-sited empirical research in Sub-Saharan Africa, this article gives a detailed analysis of how these buzzwords intersect with one another and elucidates the roles they play in shaping development-oriented approaches to refugees. While this trifecta is painted with positive connotations, empirical research shows that developmental approaches underpinned by these buzzwords can have detrimental effects on both refugees and hosts.