Uganda Refugee News - August 2023

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Sector specific:

Education:

• Education and Conflict R\review - Ensuring effective teacher management in refugee settings in the COVID-19 era: A Ugandan case study of policy and practice

• Eduation Development Trust - EDT and IIEP-UNESCO bring ministers together for key knowledge workshop in Ugandan refugee settlement

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2023

• The Independent - Govt advised to use digital learning programme to address literacy, numeracy skills

• International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies - Processes, products and lessons in translating policies into practice: The case of IGAD teacher training initiative in refugee and host community secondary schools

• New Vision - Friendly school environment key to children's learning

Environment & Energy:

• Global Giving - Helping trees to regenerate is as worthy as growing trees from seedlings and often surer and faster

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Environment and Energy dashboard Quarter 2 2023

• Nile Post - Addressing Environmental Impact: Uganda's Call for Renewable Energy in Refugee Communities

• Uganda Radio Network - Reforestation to Support Refugees Underway in Terego

Health:

• BMJ - Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey

• European Journal of Psychotraumatology - Gender differences in substance use and associated factors among urban refugees in Uganda

• Monitor - Yumbe refugee girls struggling with menstrual hygiene

• New Vision -

  • Refugee hosting districts get health emergency response boost

  • Over 3000 poeple to benefit from GROW project

• Research Square - Understanding the organisation and delivery of health service following the repatriation of South Sudanese refugees from the West Nile districts in Uganda

• Science Direct - The role of mindfulness, psychological capital, and social capital in the well-being of refugees in Uganda

• Syracuse University - The Geopolitics of Refuge and Reproduction: Maternal Health and Healthcare of Congolese Refugees in Flight, Displacement, and Resettlement

• WFP - ‘I feel like the proudest mother in the world’: WFP supports breastfeeding in Uganda - How the Swedish-funded NutriCash project, implemented by UNICEF and the World Food Programme, is changing the lives of refugee women

• Uganda Red Cross - Menstral Hygiene kits restore dignity and empower girls and women in Bidibidi refugee settlement

Livelihoods & Resilience:

• African Business - Refugee hosting communities to get internet connections

• Chimp Report - GROW Project’s Steering Committee Convenes First Sitting

• CIP - Refugee, host communities find relief and stability in Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Quarter 2 2023 - CBI Dashboard; Food Security Dashboard; Health and Nutrition; Cash Based Interventions Dashboard

• New Vision - Refugee women urged to embrace competitiveness in entrepreneurship

• Nile Post - Refugee, host communities find relief and stability in Orange-fleshed Sweet potato

• Mercy Corps - Tech innovations help build food security

• Pulse -

  • Gov't launches livelihood plan for refugees, host communities in Western Uganda

  • NITA to extend internet to refugee hosting communities

• REACH - Monitoring urban refugee influxes due to food assistance changes in Uganda - Round 1, August 2023

• Rice University - Rice study: Children are usually the poorest members of refugee communities

• Science Direct - (pay for content) - Child poverty among refugees

• UBC - Minister Nyirabashitsi Launches Ambitious Livelihood Plan for Refugees and Host Communities in Western Uganda

• UNDP - Enhancing local trade for host communities and refugees through market infrastructure

• UNHCR - UNHCR - Uganda: Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion Strategic Directions 2023 - 2028

• Vision Fund - ‘I feel part and parcel of Uganda despite being a refugee’

• VoXDev - Helping refugees integrate into the labour market: Evidence from Uganda

Protection:

• European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations - Uganda: how a gender-based violence survivor became a role model for women in emergencies

• IRC - Gender-based violence in crisis - What is gender-based violence – and how do we prevent it?

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Quarter 2, January - June 202; Protection dashboard; Child protection dahsboard

• Lund University - The Limits to Cognitive Social Capital as a Protective Factor: Examining the Buffering Effects between Intimate Partner Violence and Depression among Congolese Refugee Women

• New Vision - Uganda has highest number of unaccompanied refugee children

• Southern African Public Law - Cost-benefit Assessment of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women Reporting Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Uganda: Assessing Women’s Resilience as a Means to Protect their Ethno-religious Group

WASH:

• NEW - Lund University - Responding to the Needs of the Most Vulnerable - A Case Study of the Refugee Response on MHM and WASH in the Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, WASH Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2023

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Other:

• African Business - (subscription required) -

  • Uganda: Members of Parliament call for increased deployment at South Sudan border

  • The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) study finds long-term refugees at risk of statelessness in the Great Lakes region

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Operational Presence Quarter 2 2023

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP 2022-23) - - Quarter 2 2023 - Nakivale Performance Dashboard; Oruchinga Performance Dashboard; Lobule Performance Dashboard; Palorinya Performance Dashboard; Adjumani Performance Dashboard; Kyaka II Performance Dashboard; Kyangwali Performance Dashboard; Nakivale Performance Dashboard; Rwamwanja Performance Dashboard; Palabek Performance Dashboard; Kiryandongo Performance Dashboard; Imvepi Performance Dashboard Bidi Bidi Performance Dashboard

  • Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, - Quarter 2, January - June 2023 - Shelter and Settlements Dashboard

  • Uganda Refugee Response: National Performance Snapshot Quarter 2 2023

  • Performance Snapshot, Uganda Refugee Country Response Plan (UCRRP) 2022-2023 Performance Dashboard - Quarter 2 2023

  • Refugee Statistics Map - July 2023

  • Population Dashboard: Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda as of 31 July 2023

  • Refugee Statistics July 2023

  • Refugee Statistics July 2023 - Settlement & Urban Profiles

  • Uganda Refugees & Asylum Seekers as of 31 July 2023

  • Suicide Dashboard July 2023

  • Analysis of Suicide Incidents broken down by age and sex (July 2023)

• ICGLR -

  • Press release: ICGLR-UNHCR study finds long-term refugees at risk of statelessness in the Great Lakes region.

  • Outcome document of Experts Conference on Eradication of Statelessness and Access to Legal Identity Documentation in the Great Lakes Region

• International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction - Exploring gaps in using digital delivery mechanisms for cash-based assistance in refugee crises

• Monitor -

  • W.Nile leaders to turn refugee presence into urban opportunities

  • A community radio in West Nile: Story of solutions journalism and relevance

  • How EU projects spur development in refugee hosting communities

• Nile Post - 150 community leaders in Kampala trained on refugee rights

• NTV - UNHCR urged to find sustainable solutions to regional conflicts

• Oxfam - Uganda Humanitarian Interviews

• UBC - Nakivale refugee settlement - Conflict resolution key to refugees’ stability

• UNHCR -

  • Operational Update (June 2023)

  • Uganda Factsheet - June 2023

  • Ruyigi Sub-Office Operational Map - 31 July 2023

  • Regional Dashboard RB EHAGL

    • Operational Update April - June 2023

    • Quarterly Factsheet

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum as of 31 July 2023

    • Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region as of 31 July 2023

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by situation as of 31 July 2023

  • Refugees from generation to generation - preventing statelessness by advancing durable solutions on the Great Lakes Region

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan Dashboard - June 2023

• UNICEF - Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3: January - June 2023

• USAID - USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance: Uganda Country Assistance Overview (August 2023)

Funding

• UNCDF - Call for Applications - RFA: Financial Literacy, digital literacy and business development skilling for refugees to improve their livelihoods through access to finance and income generating activities in Uganda