Uganda Refugee News - April 2024 - Edition 52

Sector specific:

Education:

• FCA - “I was allowed to return to school” – EU-funded INCLUDE project makes sure refugee students in Uganda aren’t left behind.

• HI - Spotlight on Santina: a young girl finds her way to education in a refugee settlement in Uganda

• Makerere University - Education response plan's influence on higher education access and resilience for South Sudanese refugee students from Bidi Bidi settlement in Uganda

• NTV - (video) - South Sudan empowers refugee learners

Environment & Energy:

• Bukkede - Refugees in West Nile trained on climate-smart agriculture

• Cifor - Guidance for a Landscape Approach in Displacement Setting: Experiences from the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in Uganda

• Humanitarian energy -

• A Roadmap for Energy Access in Displacement Settings: Uganda 

• READS Summary - Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda - This report presents the main findings from the Roadmaps for Energy Access in Displacement Settings (READS) programme focusing on enhancing sustainable energy access for refugee and host communities in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda

• TCD - Refugees fight to save their new home in aftermath of destruction: 'Teaching people to plant trees also became a war' - Now one environmental association is reforesting the area that offered safe shelter to thousands upon arrival.

• U-Learn - Energy Practices in Ugandan Settlements Amid Environmental Challenges

• World Bank - Disclosable Version of the ISR - Uganda: Roads and Bridges in the Refugee Hosting Districts/Koboko-Yumbe-Moyo Road Corridor Project - P171339 - Sequence No : 7 (English)

Health:

• Angels in Medicine - A Welcoming Haven for Those Fleeing Strife and Insecurity: Uganda’s Unique Refugee Policy

• Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health - Improving psychosocial well-being and parenting practices among refugees in Uganda: Results of the journey of life effectiveness trial

• Idea - Suspicious business: COVID-19 vaccination in Palabek refugee settlement, northern Uganda

• Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology - Follow-up and Mediation Outcomes of a Movement-Based Mental Health Promotion Intervention for Refugee Children in Uganda

• Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes - Measuring refugees’ capabilities: translation, adaptation, and valuation of the OxCAP-MH into Juba Arabic for use among South Sudanese male refugees in Uganda

• Journal of Psychotraumology - Unpacking gender-specific risk and protective factors for mental health status among Congolese refugees in Uganda

• The Lancet - HIV among refugee youth in Uganda: unmasking the crisis

• National Library of Medicine - Evaluating a Movement-Based Mental Health Promotion Intervention for Refugee Children in Uganda: A Quasi-Experimental Study

• New Vision -

• Why mental illness are rising in West Nile refugee settlements

• South Sudanese refugees funddaise for trauma centre

• NTV - (video) - Looking at how hunger fuels disease among refugees in Kiryandongo

• Phys.org - Study highlights importance of caregiver well-being in Uganda

• Research Square -

• Determinants of Vaccination Coverage Among Refugee Children Aged 12-59 Months in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda

• Factors Associated with Teenage Pregnancy among Refugees in Palabek Refugee Settlement, Northern Uganda.

• Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy - Facilitating Trauma-Informed SEL with Refugee Youth in Uganda via an International Research-Practice Partnership: Lessons Learned from The Wellbeing Club

• Uganda Public Health Bulletin - Measles Outbreak at a refugee settlement Kiryandongo District, July - October 2023

• University of Copenhagen - Psychological flexibility in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda as a mechanism for change within a guided self-help intervention

• WHO - Uganda’s Health System Addresses the Health Needs of Refugees, Migrants and Host Communities  

Livelihoods & Resilience:

• International Journal of Refugee Law - (pay for access) - Fleeing a Well-Founded Fear of Persecution to Be Persecuted Again? The Case of LGBTIQ+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Uganda

• IWMI - Waste or resource? How a circular water and food economy is affecting the nutrition, health and livelihoods of refugee and host communities in East Africa.

• Loughborough University - Volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda: Livelihoods, skills, employability and inequalities

• Nile Post - How the "Rebuild" project will empower the livelihoods of urban refugees

• Oxfam - Leadership Empowerment Access and Protection (LEAP) II

• Peace Winds Amercia - Working with locals to improve living conditions in refugee camps in Uganda

• U-Learn -

• The Realities Of Self-Reliance Within The Ugandan Refugee Context

• (video) - Entrepreneurship support in Uganda's Refugee Response!

• You Tube - Danish Embassy, UNFPA, Uganda launch youth empowerment program  

Protection:

• Child Protection and Practice - Disability, childhood experiences of violence and associated health outcomes in refugee settlements in Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Suicide Dashboard March 2024

• NRC - Legal protection needs of refugees self-settled in secondary cities in Uganda

WASH

• Lutheran World Federation - Emergency response in Kiryandongo refugee settlement

• Monitor -

• How Shs 106bn water project is bettering lives of refugees and hosts

• Govt commissions shs 3.2bn sanitation facility in northern uganda's refugee settlement

• New Vision -

• In Uganda's northwest, new fecal sludge treatment plant offers relief

• Refugee Camp stakeholders push for minset change, water access project

• World Bank - From a Humanitarian to Development Approach: Uganda’s Groundbreaking Journey in the Sustainable Provision of Water to Refugees and Host Communities

Other:

• Development Aid -

• The United States provides more than $25 million for refugee assistance in Uganda

• Uganda considering review of refugee policy as less foreign aid is provided

• GoU - Uganda Active Population by settlement: 31 March 2024

• GoU/UNHCR

• Uganda Country Refugee Response End of Year Inter-Sector Dashboard 2023

• Uganda Refugee Response Plan (URRP) - Inter-Agency Feedback, Referral and Resolution Mechanism (FRRM) Dashboard as of 31 March 2024

• Population Dashboard: Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda as of 31 March 2024

• IoM -

• Uganda Multi-Hazard Infographic - Response/DRR Platform, March 2024 (Published: 12 April 2024)

• Refugee Flow Monitoring - Nakivale Refugee Settlement in the Southwest Region of Uganda - Round 1 (Data collection date: 19 February - 19 March 2024), 23 April 2024

• Monitor -

• UBOS calls for refugee outreach for accurate census

• US announces Shs95b funding to Uganda for refugees

• Uganda’s refugee dilemma: Must approach go beyond basic aid?

• Uganda: A beacon of hope and inclusivity

• National Youth Festival - The Plight of female Urban Refugees

• New Humanitarian - How to fund refugee-led aid - ‘We have a responsibility to push for change in the system.’

• New Vision -

• (video) - Japan donates sh16 billion for refugee response in Uganda

• Uganda sees influx of over 400 refugees daily

• Lamwo RDC call for a ban on machetes

• Refugees, OPM call for extenstion of empowerment program

• NRC -

• From DR Congo to Uganda, and back

• Right from the start: Birth registration in Rhino Camp (March 2024)

• NTV - (video) -

• (video) - Sudanese refugees struggle in Kiryandongo settlement camp

• Analysing Uganda and the Refugee problem | MorningAtNTV

• Parish Development model funds: 200,000 beneficiaries were paid online

• Population Council

• Preparing the ground to influence humanitarian sector policies, guidelines, and strategies in Uganda: Case Study Two

• Influencing programme plans, practices, actions, and investments in humanitarian settings: Case Study One

• Exploring the value and replicability of integrating refugees and host community members into research activities in refugee settings

• Prio - Engaging with the Humanitarian Localisation Agenda from ‘Below’ in Uganda

• Research Gate - Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda

• SIDA - Humanitarian Crisis Analysis 2024

• U-Learn - Mainstreaming Accountability Culture in a Refugee Response Context

• UNHCR -

• Uganda: Feedback, Referral, and Resolution Mechanism (FRRM), March 2024 Newsletter

• Population Dashboard: Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda as of 31 March 2024

• Regional Bureau for East, Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (as of 31-Mar-24)

• Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region (31 Mar 2024)

• UNICEF - Families Forward: Impact of GirlsEmpoweringGirls - “Everyone has a bright future, but it has to be fought for,” Eighteen-year-old Naome Masiga

• USAID - The United States Provides More Than $25 Million for Refugee Assistance in Uganda

• VoxDev - Can financial redistribution shape attitudes toward refugees?

• WFP -

• Uganda WFP VAM | Food Security Analysis: Refugee Market Monitor Report (December 2023)

• Uganda WFP VAM | Food Security Analysis: National Market Monitor Report (December 2023)

• Uganda Country Brief,

• March 2024

• February 2024

• United States provides $11 million to WFP's refugees response in Uganda

• Uganda Annual Country Report 2023 - Country Strategic Plan 2018 - 2025

Events and Calls

• PRIO - Locally-led Aid and Accountability: What Have We Learned? Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:30–10:00 UTC+02 - This event is part of the AidAccount conference. Please read more about it here

• ILO - Call for proposals - To deliver digital cash transfer to returned migrants and provide micro-loans to vulnerable potential and returned migrants in Uganda

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