Uganda Refugee News - August 2022 - Edition 32

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Sector specific: Education

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - Education dashboard

• TARL - ‘Bridging the Gap’ in Uganda with YARID

Environment

• Global Earth Aware - Ecosystem Restoration Updates - Nakivale refugee camp

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - Environment and Energy dashboard

• WCS Uganda - Restoring and conserving degraded fragile ecosystems

Health:

• NEW - Makere University - Assessment of the performance and its determinants of community health workers who use digital methods in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Kyegegwa District, Western Uganda

• BJPsych Open - SH+ 360: novel model for scaling up a mental health and psychosocial support programme in humanitarian settings

• Canadian Lutheran - Safe Spaces for Women in Uganda - Help provide counselling and skills training for refugee women and girls in Northern Uganda

• Computers in Human Behaviour - Digital technologies, equitable gender norms, and sexual health practices across sexting patterns among forcibly displaced adolescents in the slums of kampala, Uganda - This study highlights potential positive outcomes associated with sexting (i.e., condom efficacy and use) as well as its concerning correlated factors (e.g., less access to sexual and reproductive health services) among refugee adolescents. Based on these findings, we offer recommendations for future digital sexual health interventions.

• GAVI - Aid groups, authorities coordinate efforts to intensify refugee vaccination in Uganda - With refugees making up 3.3% of Uganda’s population, humanitarian groups and authorities are making efforts to get vaccines to displaced families.

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - Health and Nutrition dashboard Quarter 1 2022

• HSOA Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Gynaecology & Obstetrics Benefits and Barriers to the Utilisation of Safe Male Circumcision Services by Young Men Aged 15-24 in Rhino Camp Refugees Settlement in Arua District- Uganda

• Makerere University - Using Intervention Mapping methodology to design an HIV linkage intervention in a refugee settlement in rural Uganda.

• PLOS Global Public Health -

  • Factors associated with poor treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda, 2016–2017

  • Human rights-based accountability for sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian settings: Findings from a pilot study in northern Uganda

• Research Square - Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Psychological Wellbeing of Refugees in Africa.

• Simbi Foundation - Addressing The Mental Wellbeing Of South Sudanese Refugees In Uganda

• UNDP - The Value Chain Market Assessment and Upgrading: Highlights of the Value Chain Assessment and Recommendations in northern Uganda - Obongi, Adjumani and Lamwo

• UNFPA -video - Delivering life-saving sexual reproductive health and rights services in refugee settlements

• UNHCR/IGAD - IGAD and UNHCR Signed a PR-SR Grant Agreement of US $1,738,528 - The support aims to improve the availability and utilisation of TB and COVID-19 response in the refugee camps in Djibouti, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, through strengthening the diagnostic capacity of TB, MDR-TB, TB/HIV and COVID-19.

• USAID - Refugee Rapid Market Systems Assessments Nakivale, Rwamwanja and Palabek Settlements (August 16, 2022)

Livelihoods

• NEW - ILO - Occupations and skills assessment for youth in selected refugee settlements of Isingiro, Arua and Madi Okollo districts in Uganda

• Bristol University Press - (pay for content) - Livelihoods 2.0? Refugee Self-Reliance and the Digital Gig Economy

• Enabel - video - Uganda: Supporting refugees to rebuild their lives

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021, Livelihoods & Resilience - Quarter 1, January - March 2022

• ILO -

  • Rapid Market Assessment of Five Value Chains in Nakivale Refugee Settlement and Host Community Isingiro District, August 2022

  • ILO’s timely interventions assist small businesses in Uganda

• Market Links - Piloting Private Service Provision to Refugees and Host Communities in Uganda

• New Vision - French envoy champions refugee skills for food security

• UNCDF - An improved market in Northern Uganda supports locals and refugees alike

Protection

• NEW - Child Fund -

• SRH and SGBV Needs Assessment among Adolescents and Youth in Refugee and Host Communities in Obongi District

• Building Resilience And Protection Mechanism For The Well-Being Of Children and Youth In Refugee and Host Communities (BREPs Project)

• New Vision TV - (video) - Police intercept 34 trafficked refugees in Kisoro

• University of Ottawa - Survival At Risk: Evaluating Refugee Policy Towards Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - Protection Dashboard; Gender-Based Violence; Child Protection

WASH

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - WASH dashboard

• Nukumba University - Compliance to Recommended Humanitarian Sphere Standards of Sanitation by the Facilities in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Located in Yumbe District, Uganda

Other:

• NEW - Urban refugees and IDPs in secondary cities

• NEW - Rapid Needs Assessment Amongst Newly Arrived Refugees Southwest and West Nile, Uganda

• NEW - AHMR African Human Mobility Review - Destination Substitution and Social Networks among Urban Refugees in Kampala, Uganda

• African Health Sciences - Repatriation of South Sudanese refugees from the West Nile districts, Uganda. What do we learn from the process?

• Arnold Bergstraesser Institut - Political Stakes of Refugee Protection in Uganda

• Book - Language Learning and Forced Migration - this book has 3 chapters that looks at English learnt by Congolese refugees in Uganda

  • 3.'In Uganda we collected them in the streets': On (the absence of) the street as a language leaning space

  • 7. Syllable structures in English speech produced by multilingual speakers with histories of mobility

  • 8.Word order in additional language English spoken by multilinguals

• Capital FM - Refugee Rapper set to release collaborations with Jamaican artist

• CARE - Gender Analysis Uganda: Refugees and Host Communities in Yumbe and Terego Districts (August 2022)

• Crux - Church leaders: South Sudanese refugees want to return, but need peace

• The East African - Refugees tell personal stories in art exhibition

• The East African Watch - Security to deport 'refugees'

• GoU - PM Nabbanja launches energy programme for refugees

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Performance Snapshot, Uganda Refugee Country Response Plan (UCRRP) 2022-2023 - Quarter 1 2022

  • Refugee Statistics July 2022 - Nakivale; Adjumani; Bidi Bidi; Palabek; Imvepi; Kiryandongo; Kyaka II; Rhino; Orunchinga; Kyangwali; Rwamanja; Lobule; Nakivale; Kampala; Palorinya

  • Refugee Influx Dashboard (As of 4 August 22)

  • Refugee Statistics Map - July 2022

  • Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - Operational presence; Cash-Based Interventions Dashboard; health & nutrition; food security

  • Arua Settlements Conflict Mapping Report, July 2022

  • Rhino Camp Settlement Conflict Dashboard

  • Palorinya Refugee Settlement Incidents Report (As of 30 June 2022)

• HDX - Uganda - Socioeconomic assessment of refugees through Individual Profiling Exercise - Home Visits, 2022

• FIND/IRC - Financial Integration in Displacement: Pilot Findings from Yumbe and Kampala

• IDInsight - GiveDirectly Uganda Endline Report - Unconditional cash transfers in Kiryandongo refugee settlement, Uganda

• IFRC - Africa | Population Movement - Emergency Appeal n° MDRUG045 - Operation Update #1

• The Independent - Uganda to repatriate 360 Burundian refugees

• Nairobi news - Uganda gazettes refugee camps to ‘host’ Kenyan poll victims

• NTV -

  • Government launches energy response plan for refugees

  • Refugee host communities need financial literacy skills - Minister Onek

• Response Innovation Lab - Creative Capacity Building in Uganda: Scaling the Impact of Refugee-Led Design Solutions

• Royal Anthropological Institute - Textures of precarity - Repurposing in a Ugandan refugee settlement

• Uganda Radio Network -

  • (log in required) - Arua City Leaders Want Urban Refugee Policy Reviewed

  • Refugees Abandon Plots in Nakivale over Poor Social services

• UNCDF - Digital Savings Groups for Refugees in Uganda

• UNHCR

  • Inter-Agency Situation Report - Uganda Refugee Emergency 21-28 July , 29 July – 4 August ;5 – 11 August 12-18 August

  • Analysis of suicide incidents, June 2022

  • UNHCR Operational Update (1 - 30 June 2022)

  • RRP Funding Dashboard Q1 2022

  • Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region - Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (as of 31 July 2022)

  • Voluntary repatriation from/in DRC to/from other countries in 2022 (As of 30 August 2022)

• UNOPS - New bridge in Uganda better connects refugees, host communities to services

• UN Women - In Uganda, refugee women’s leadership drives inclusive humanitarian action

• USAID - USAID-BHA Uganda Assistance Overview

• Vision Fund - Webinar: VisionFund’s Refugee Microfinance Programme in West Nile, Uganda: One Year On