Uganda Refugee News - Edition 64 - April 2025

Welcome to the 64th edition of URN covering publications and news from April 2025

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Sector specific:

Education:

• Children on the Edge - Early Years Education for Congolese Refugee Children

• FINCA - FINCA Empowers Education and Economic Opportunity for Refugees in Uganda

• Journal of Refugee Studies - (pay for acces) - How might we better support refugees’ admissions to universities? Reflections from Uganda, Edinburgh, and Oxford

• JRS - The future of children and youth is at risk as funding cuts force education in emergencies contexts to be deprioritized

• Nile Post - UNICEF, UMSC call for urgent investment in early childhood education in refugee districts

• Save the Children - European Union Continues To Build Resilient Inclusive Systems For Refugees And Host Communities

• UNHCR - Mastercard Foundation and UNHCR launch $300m partnership for refugee education and livelihoods

• University of Edinburgh - Teaching technology to technology teachers in refugee settlements in Uganda

Environment & Energy:

• AVSI - Lighting up lives with solar energy in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Birungi Eralesi’s story

• Nile Post - New Sustainable Natural Resources Management Project to Boost Environmental Sustainability in West Nile

• Phil Archive - Lighting the Way: Behavioral Savings Boost Solar Aspirations in

  Ugandan Refugee Settlement

• U-Learn - (video) - The Refugee Response Lens Podcast - Climate and clean energy solutions for Uganda's refugee response

Health:

• BMC - Child friendly spaces in Kiryandongo settlement, offering psychosocial support to refugee children.

• CordAid - Giving Young Refugees in Uganda the Tools to Take Control of Their Health

• Frontiers in Reproductive Health - Healthcare workers' attitudes and factors affecting provision of sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents in refugee settlements, Western Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR -

  • Uganda Refugee Settlements: Mpox outbreak (As of 08 April 2025)

  • Disease outbreak dashboard in the refugee settlements - Uganda as of 08 April 2025

• International Journal of Intercultural Relations - Resilience across borders: An exploration of psychological basic needs satisfaction, adjustment to adversities, and well-being among refugees and the host community in Uganda

• National Library of Medicine - Estimating Incidence of Induced Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy Among Women in Refugee Settlements in Uganda

• National Research Repository of Uganda - Effect of Refugee Influx on the Right to Health of Refugees in Nakivale Settlement Camp in Uganda

• The New Times - Uganda reports measles outbreak in refugee settlements

• Nile Post - Adjumani Health Facilities Receive Shs 102 Million Boost for Family Planning Services

• Science Direct - Incidence and predictors of loss-to-follow-up among South Sudanese refugees with HIV receiving care in Adjumani District, Uganda

• Xinhuanet - Uganda reports measles outbreak in refugee settlements

  Livelihoods and Resilience

• ACF - How Refugees in Uganda are using Innovative Farming Methods to Fight Hunger

• AEA Registry - The Impact of formalizing land rental contracts on tenancy security, agricultural investment and refugee-host interactions in Uganda

• AVSI - Operationalising Graduation and Market Systems Development integration in refugee settings: lessons from Uganda

• DAI - Operationalizing the Graduation + MSD Integration Model in Refugee Settings: Lessons from Uganda

• DCA - Kango Starts a Barbershop Business with Small Savings in Bidibidi Refugee

• FINCA - Empowering Education and Economic Opportunity for Refugees in Uganda

• FSD Uganda - FSD takes financial inclusion gospel to refugees, PWDs

• GoU/UNHCR/WFP - Update on re-categorization of general food assistance (GFA) to refugees in Uganda

• Gov Info Hub - WFP Endorses Museveni’s Vision for Self-Reliant Refugee Settlements in Uganda

• IGC - Cultivating cooperation: The impact of formalising land rental contracts on refugee-host interactions and agricultural production in rural Uganda

• IRC - Cash and Small Business Groups for Ugandans and Refugees - Learnings from Re:BUiLD

• Mercy Corp - Refugee Finance Playbook

• Mums Products - Empowering Refugees: Our Partnership with Agape Refugee Foundation

• Nexus Media - ADRA Uganda Launches VSLA Project to Boost Refugee Livelihoods

• Nile Post - Youth livelihoods program empowers nationals and refugees in Adjumani

• NTV - (video) -

  • Reduced food rations are impacting well-being, mental health of refugees

  • Female refugees, host communities encouraged to enroll in GROW project

  • Aid cuts spur push for refugee financial inclusion

• Palm Corp - Co-Creating Climate-Smart Irrigation Solutions with the community in Terego District

• Save the Children - Denmark and Save the Children Launch Refugee Resilience Initiative in Western Uganda

• UN Women - A Gender assessment of Uganda's refugee response. Impacts of the Phase 3 Food Prioritization Approach in Uganda

• WFP -

  • WFP scales up digital cash transfers in Uganda

  • Museveni, WFP Officials Explore Agricultural Solutions for Refugee Self-Reliance 

Protection

• Conflict and Health -  Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence against women and its association with violence against children in refugee settlements in Uganda

• Erasing 76 Crimes - Refugee camp in Uganda plagued with anti-LGBT violence

• Knowledge Commons - Asking and telling in humanitarian contexts: A feasibility assessment of para-social worker-led screening for sexual violence against children in Uganda

• NTV - (video) - How a Congolese refugee is coping with sexual trauma

• RLP - Empowering Women in Refugee Settlements: Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Promoting Economic Self-Reliance

• UN Women - A Safe Space to Start Again: Stephania’s Journey of Courage and Care

WASH

• Nile Post - Women, Children Bear the Brunt as Water Shortage Hits Adjumani's Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement

Other:

• Ankole Times - Richard Bard Byamukama: Dangers of Uganda’s liberal Refugee Policy

• Blue news - UNHCR: Refugee camp in Uganda completely overcrowded

• Caritas Norge - Helping others is helping ourselves

• Chimp Reports - BLOG: Dangers of Uganda’s Liberal Refugee Policy

• Cuestiones de Fisioterapia - Sustaining Uganda's Refugee Response Amidst Resource Scarcity: A Policy and Governance Perspective

• Eastleigh Voice - Sick and exhausted: Children from DRC represent new face of Uganda’s growing refugee crisis

• ECHO - Uganda - Refugee influx (DG ECHO, UN) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 April 2025)

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP)

    • Refugee Statistics March 2025

      • Active Population by Settlement

      • Settlement & Urban Profiles

      • Refugee Statistics Map March 2025

    • National Suicide Tracking Dashboard (Q1 2025)

  • Inter-Agency Feedback, Referral, and Resolution Mechanism (FRRM) Annual Newsletter

  • Critical Indicator Tracking Matrix - Nyumanzi Reception Centre

    • as of 03 April 2025

    • as of 10 April 2025

    • as of 17 April 2025

    • as of 24 April 2025

  • Uganda: Influx out of Eastern D.R. Congo

    • as of 27 Apr 2025

    • as of 20 Apr 2025

    • as of 10 Apr 2025

    • as of 4 Apr 2025

  • Influx out of Eastern D.R. Congo -

    • 20 April 2025

    • 10 April 2025

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response End of Year Inter-Sector Dashboard 2024

  • CORE-Uganda: Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers -

    • 20 April 2025

    • 6 April 2025

• IoM - Uganda Multi-Hazard Report, March 2025 (Published: 14 April 2025)

• IFRC - Uganda Population movement from DRC - DREF Operation (MDRUG056)

• LWF - A Simple Call That Changed a Life

• Monitor - Kisoro refugee camp overcrowded over Congo crisis

• The New Humanitarian - What if we stopped aid altogether? If your humanitarian mission dies when the money dries up, it was never a mission, it was a business.

• New Lines - The Untold Story of Polish Refugees in Uganda - A forgotten chapter of survival in exile during World War II

• NGI - On an IUG Mission to Uganda to Investigate How Technology Can Help People on the Run

• Nile Post -

  • Kisoro District Hosts South Sudanese Delegation to Discuss Refugee Concerns

  • Nita-U expands internet connectivity in refugee settlements and host communities

• The Observer - Uganda’s refugee management faces unprecedented disruption

• OPM - Japan commits USD 6.6 Million to Refugees and Refugee Host Communities in Uganda

• REACH -

  • Uganda Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA) 2024 - Sector Findings April 2025

  • Mapping exposure to climate-related hazards - A GIS and remote sensing perspective on Nyumanzi settlement 

• RSC -

  • Linking, Bonding, Bridging - The role of social capital in facilitating access to livelihoods among refugees in Gulu city, Uganda

  • Refugee mobility and livelihoods in Uganda

• R-Seat - R-SEAT's Assessment Report: Meaningful Refugee Participation at the GRF 2023

• UBC - (video) - A future free from conflict - South Sudanese refugees in Uganda yearn for peace back home

• U-Learn - Refugee Engagement Forum in Uganda – Good Practice Study Brief

• UN - DR Congo crisis: 41,700 refugees have fled violence to Uganda

• UNHCR

  • Rapid influx of Congolese refugees strains Uganda’s threadbare resources

  • L'arrivée de réfugiés congolais met à rude épreuve la capacité d'accueil de l'Ouganda

  • El rápido aumento de refugiados congoleños desgasta la capacidad de respuesta de Uganda

  • Uganda Refugee Response:

    • Conflict Mapping Dashboard

      • Jan - Mar 2025

      • Q1 2025

  • DRC Response

    • Displacement in Eastern DRC and Neighbouring Countries, Two-Month Impact Report, February - March 2025

    • Emergency Appeal: DRC Refugee Situation in Uganda (April - September 2025)

    • Eastern DRC Flash Update Uganda, 7 - 13 April 2025

    • Eastern DRC Situation Overview -

      • 22 April 2025

      • 7 April 2025

    • DRC Refugees Situation Dashboard - 28 February 2025

    • Eastern DRC Displacement Overview -

      • 21 April 2025

      • 17 April 2025

      • 14 April 2025

  • South Sudan response

    • Population Dashboard - 31 March 2025

  • Burundi response

    • Population Dashboard -

      • 31 March 2025

      • 28 February 2025

  • Sudan response

    • Sudan Situation Map Weekly Regional Update -

      • 28 Apr 2025

      • 21 Apr 2025

      • 14 Apr 2025

      • 7 Apr 2025

      • 31 Mar 2025

    • Sudan Emergency - Two Years On - 2025 Impact Update

    • UNHCR External Update

      • #105 - 19 April 2025

      • #104 - 5 April 2025

  • (video) - The Brief: Refugee Influx in Uganda

  • Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes -

    • EAC Region - Population of Concern to UNHCR (as of 28 February 2025)

    • IGAD Region - Population of Concern to UNHCR (as of 28 February 2025)

    • Refugees and asylum seekers by country of asylum (as of 28 February 2025)

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum as of 31 March 2025

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by situation - 31 March 2025

    • Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the EAC region - 31 March 2025

    • Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region - 31 March 2025

    • Community Feedback Analysis Report

• UNICEF - Eastern and Southern Africa Region Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2 (Reporting Period: 1 January to 31 December 2024)

• WFP -

  • Uganda Country Brief, February 2025

  • Uganda Country Brief, March 2025

  • Uganda Annual Country Report 2024 - Country Strategic Plan 2018 - 2025

  • Uganda Learning Review - Learning from UNHCR-WFP collaboration on prioritizing food assistance for refugees, with support from the UNHCR-WFP Joint Hub 

Events, funding etc: 

• The Humanitarian Innovation Programme - Call for proposals 2025 - NOK 100 million is allocated in 2025. Applications to the Innovation Lab scheme may range from NOK 4-6 million (or up to NOK 8 million for consortium projects with three or more partnering organisations) Applications to the Scaling grant scheme may range from NOK 2-10 million The total funding allocated for each grant scheme is subject to applications received. Focus areas: Green humanitarian response; Health and sanitation; Protection; Innovative financing; Food security. Who can apply? 1. UN agencies with a humanitarian mandate, as well as IFRC and ICRC; 2. International NGOs with a presence in Norway (The organisation must be registered at the Brønnøysund Register and have both an office in Norway and a Norwegian board) 3. Consortiums of multiple humanitarian organisations. The application deadline is 13. June 2025, 12PM CEST (Noon).