Uganda Refugee News - August 2025

Sector specific:

EDUCATION

• Africa News - Uganda’s refugee children face education crisis amid soaring arrivals and funding shortfall

• EduTimes - Congolese Refugee Girls Find Hope and Education in Kampala School

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Education dashboard Quarter 2 2025

• Independent -

  • Congolese refugee girls find comfort and opportunity in Ugandan school

  • Refugees graduate with global ICT certification

• MSN - Uganda’s refugee children face education crisis amid soaring arrivals and funding shortfall

• NTV - (video) - Yumbe Refugee schools struggle with staffing and resources

• Tech Africa News - Uganda Trains Over 1,200 Refugees in Digital Skills Through ICDL Africa Partnership

• UNHCR - Teachers in Refugee and Displacement Settings: Uganda Case Study (May 2024)

ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY

• The Borgen Project -  Fighting Climate Impacts on Refugees with CRRF

• The Co-operator - Adjumani revives environmental committees to combat natural resource depletion

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024 - 2025, Environment & Energy Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2025

• Nile Post - Isingiro Hills Stand Naked, Exposing Uganda’s Refugee–Environment Crunch

HEALTH

• Aids and Behaviours - Associations Between Forced Sexual Initiation, Post-exposure Prophylaxis Cascades and Subsequent Violence Experiences Among Displaced Young Women in Ugandan Informal Urban Settlements

• Borgen Project - Bidipads: Menstrual Products in Uganda Refugee Settlement

• Global Social Welfare - Stress Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Urban Refugee Youth in Kampala, Uganda: A Textual-Visual Qualitative Analysis

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024 - 2025, Health & Nutrition Dashboard - Quarter 2 2025

• HEKS/EKR - Bidibidi refugee camp in Uganda Bidipads – superb and hygienic

• LSHTM - Re-thinking epidemic preparedness in refugee settings: An ethnographic exploration in Palabek Refugee Settlement, northern Uganda, during COVID-19

• MTI - 5 things that one of our doctors in Uganda wants you to know

• Muni University - Prevalence of malaria and associated risk factors among febrile under-five refugee children attending Panyadoli Health Centre III, Kiryandongo District, Mid-western Uganda

• National Library on Medicine - Anemia prevalence and severity among pregnant refugee women settled in the West Nile region, Uganda

• NTV - (video) -

  • Teen pregnancies rise in refugee camps amid basic needs shortage

  • Kyaka refugee settlement marks World Breastfeeding Week

• PAMJ - Epidemiological investigation of measles outbreak in a refugee settlement in Lamwo District, Uganda

• Population Council -

  • Reshaping the narrative around sexual and reproductive health and rights research in refugee settings: Case studies from Baobab

  • Unintended pregnancy, induced abortion, and abortion-related complications among women in humanitarian settings in Uganda: Evidence Brief

  • Availability of post-abortion care in refugee settlements in Uganda: Evidence Brief

• UCOBAC - Palabek Refugee Women embrace Family Planning for stability

• UNFPA - Denmark invests $13 million in sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence services in Uganda

• UNICEF - Uganda's Nutrition Action Plan II (2020/21–2024/25) – Impact

LIVELIHOODS & RESILIENCE

• ACF - How One Refugee Father Transformed His Family and Community

• ACT Alliance - ACT Alliance launches a Report Analysing the State of Adaptation Finance in Uganda

• All Africa - Over 230 Kampala Refugee Women Entrepreneurs to Receive Training Under Grow

• Amahoro Coalition -

  • Pathways to Employment - Uganda

  • (video) - Amos Kwizera: From Displacement to Creating 101 Dignified Jobs

  • (video) - Fairway, Uganda's premier hotel highlights the benefits of working with FDPs

  • Introducing the Amahoro Skills Hub - The Skills Hub is Amahoro Coalition’s digital platform designed to connect refugees and forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) to meaningful economic opportunities across Africa.

• AVSI -

  • Delivering Economic Inclusion Interventions with graduation and Market Systems Development approaches Integration - August 2025

  • How income diversification is impacting refugee household

• DSG

  • Digitalization & Gender Norms: Learnings from CARE’s Digital Pilot for VSLA Members in Rwanda & Uganda

  • Let Savings Groups be the Customer

  • Can Digitalisation Interventions in Savings Groups Survive After the Project Ends?

• East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources - Assessing Knowledge of Climate Change Management Among Smallholder Crop Farmers in a Refugee Context: Lessons from Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• EPRC - Unlocking the Economic Potential of Refugees in Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024-2025:

  • Cash Voucher Assistance (CVA) Dashboard Quarter 2 (January - June 2025)

  • Livelihoods & Resilience Dashboard - Quarter 2, April - June 2025

  • Food Security Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2025

• ILO - Assessing the Role of Employers in Improving Labour Migration Governance in Uganda

• The Independent -

  • Refugee women entrepreneurs ask for Islamic Banking in GROW project

  • BrighterMonday and Mastercard Foundation unite to empower displaced youth in Uganda

  • Refugee skilling for self-reliance

  • From Khartoum to the Garden

• Mercy Corp -

  • Powering the Uptake of Climate Change Mitigating Pumps (PUMP-UP) - Learning brief: barriers to solar water pump adoption among smallholder farmers (SHFs), women and refugees in Northern Uganda

  • Building Climate Resilience Through Solar-Powered Irrigation in Northern Uganda

• Monitor - (pay for content) -

  • Rhythms of resilience: Female refugees find beauty in ashes

  • Why Uganda works for refugee employment

• New Vision - Govt to establish solar-powered labs to link refugees to employment

• Nile Post -

  • Empowering Refugees and Host Communities: The Impact of the REAL Project in Uganda

  • Refugee Youth Urged to Take Charge of Their Future at Kiryandongo Dialogue

• Opportunity Bank - Opportunity Bank Uganda, in Partnership with Opportunity International UK, Opens 25th Branch in Rwamwanja to Scale Refugee Financing

• ProQuest - Unpacking the HIV Epidemic Among People on the Move in Uganda: Actionable Evidence for an Equitable Response

• Research Square - Prior Business Experience, Refugees’ Entrepreneurial Intentions, and Intention Implementation: Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior

• YouTube - (video) - Threading Hope – Skilling Refugees in Uganda

• UN - Refugee Farmers in Uganda’s West Nile Reap Big from Climate-Smart Innovation

• UNHCR

  • Presentation - AVSI – Delivering Economic Inclusion Interventions with graduation and Market Systems Development approaches Integration - August 2025

  • Presentation - Be Blessed Agro Supplies – Sustainable Market Inclusive Livelihood Pathways to Self-Reliance - August 2025 

PROTECTION

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024-2025,

  • Child Protection Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2025

  • Gender-Based Violence Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2025

  • Protection Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2025

• UNICEF - Rewriting the story of teenage pregnancy - A social protection programme funded by the Iceland Government is helping to create a new pathway for young girls in refugee and host communities in western Uganda 

• UNHCR - The smallest survivors - Refugee children are fleeing conflict and persecution on their own. 

• YCON-Sudan - When Refuge Becomes Precarious: Violence in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement – Uganda

WASH

• Conflict and Health - Handwashing with soap and influencing factors in crisis-affected refugee populations in Kenya and Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024 - 2025, WASH Dashboard - Quarter 2, April - June 2025

• KnowHub - Effectiveness of the Jengu Handwashing Facility to Increase Handwashing With Soap Among Crisis-Affected Populations in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• Mission Newswire - Palabek Refugee Resettlement Camp has new water tank thanks to funding from Salesian Missions

• NTV - (video) - Water scarcity hits Rhino Refugee Camp amid borehole failures

• Nile Post - Lake Nakivale on the Brink as Refugees Harvest Papyrus Roots for Survival

Other:

• ACJPS - Uganda’s open-door policy gives refugees a new lease on life

• African Elements - Uganda’s Refugee Crisis and the Impact of Aid Cuts

• African Renaissance - The Intricacy of E-governance in Uganda’s Refugee Food Assistance Programme: A Focus on Biometric Identification Management System (BIMS) for Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement

• Bond - What I learned from visiting refugee settlements in Uganda

• CGTN - (video) - Uganda to repatriate over 2,000 Sudanese refugees amid improved conditions

• Connectivity for Refugees - A multi-stakeholder initiative to advance the availability and affordability of connectivity for 20 million forcibly displaced people and their host communities by 2030, driven by UNHCR, ITU, GSMA, and the Government of Luxembourg

• East African - Congo refugees begin returning home despite uncertainty ahead

• GSMA - The Humanitarian Connectivity, Needs and Usage Assessments (CoNUA) Toolkit

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers (as of 31-Jul-2025)

  • CORE - Uganda:

    • Influx out of Eastern D.R. Congo - 10 August 2025; 24 August 2025

    • Eastern DRC Situation Dashboard - 12 Aug 2025

  • Sudanese Refugees and Asylum Seekers -

    • 10 August 2025

    • 24 August 2025

  • Uganda Refugee Response:

    • National Performance Snapshot Quarter 2 2025

    • Partner Operational Presence Quarter 2 2025

    • Q2 2025 Kampala Performance Snapshot

    • Shelter and Settlements Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2025

  • Uganda - Population Dashboard:

    • Annex I - Refugee Statistics July 2025 - Active Population by Settlement

    • Annex II - Map - Refugees and Asylum Seekers (31-Jul-2025)

    • Annex III - Settlement Profiles 31 Jul 2025

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

• IGAD - IGAD and Uganda’s OPM Extend Refugee Engagement Forum to Local Governments

• Independent - DRC refugees begin returning home despite uncertainty ahead

• Information Processing & Management - Information needs of South Sudanese refugees in North Western Uganda at Bidi Bidi refugee settlement

• IRC - IRC Re:BUILD - Report from the multi-stakeholder meeting with RLOs, civil society, Human rights actors, & legal experts 

• JRS - Why is humanitarian work important to communities in Uganda? – Christina Zetlmeisl

• Lunds University - Uganda’s Refugee Response Through the Lens of Integration: An Analysis of Stakeholder Perceptions

• McGill - Queens University Press - Refugee-Led Organizations in Uganda - Agency, Gender, and Politics of Self-Organizing in Exile

• Monitor -

  • Over 2,000 Sudanese refugees in Uganda ready for voluntary repatriation

  • Adjumani struggles to provide services as refugees increase

  • Lukwago warns of xenophobia in Kampala as refugees hit 160,000

  • Govt should have plan for handling refugees

• New Vision - Ugandan innovators equipped to refine humanitarian solutions

• Nile Post - Adjumani giving tournament fosters unity among national and refugees

• NRC - Needs and Intentions of Newly-Arrived Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Kampala, July 2025

• NTV - (video) -

  • Austria donates $1.7M to support Refugee water and sanitation in Uganda

  • Legal access remains elusive for refugees in Uganda’s West Nile

  • Girls embrace football in Rwamwanja refugee settlement

• The Observer - Four refugee teams to compete in JICA’s TICAD tournament

• OCHA -

  • Eastern Africa: Regional Cash and Voucher Assistance Overview (as of Apr 2025)

  • Southern and Eastern Africa: A region on the brink demands global solidarity

• Parametric Architecture - Architectural Conditions of the Largest Refugee Settlements

• Refuge - The Role of Art in the Liminal Setting of Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• Reuters - Funding for refugees in Uganda will run out next month, UN warns

• Social Impact Files - While cuts in aid make headlines, Uganda’s refugees pay the price

• SSOAR! - Uganda: a role model for refugee integration?

• UG Diplomat - Gen Muhoozi: Uganda Open to Hosting Palestinian Refugees

• Uganda Radio Network - UNHCR Seeks Austrian Support to Fund Legal Aid for Refugees in Uganda

• U-Learn Uganda - Localising Research, Learning and Accountability to Affected Populations in Uganda’s Refugee Response

• UN - Humanitarian workers providing lifeline to Refugees in Uganda

• UNHCR/USCRI - USCRI Policy Report - On the front lines: The Uganda Refugee Response and Refugee-Led Organizations- July 2024

• UNHCR

  • UNHCR South Sudan Border Monitoring Report - Spontaneous Returns Monitoring - June 2025

  • South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan: January 2024 - December 2025 (updated July 2025)

  • South Sudan Situation:

    • UNHCR External Update #2 (July 2025)

    • Population Dashboard - 31 July 2025

  • Uganda Operation - Critical Indicator Tracking Matrix - Nyumanzi Reception Centre

    • 21 August 2025

    • 14 August 2025

    • 07 August 2025

    • 17 July 2025

  • Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - EAC & EHAGL Region

    • Population of Concern to UNHCR (as of 31 July 2025)

    • Refugees and asylum seekers by country of asylum (as of 31 July 2025)

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

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

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

  • CORE - Eastern DRC Situation Dashboard - 12 Aug 2025

  • Eastern DRC Flash update -

    • 04 - 17 August 2025

    • 21 July - 3 August 2025

    • 9 - 22 June 2025

    • 26 May - 8 June 2025

  • Nearly 2 million refugees at risk as Uganda emergency funds dwindle and services cut

  • (video) - More refugees seek safety in Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country, Uganda, as funding cuts hamper humanitarian support in one of the worst funding crises in decades

• WarChild - War Child Alliance Raises Alarm as Uganda’s Refugee Settlements Buckle in Wake of Aid Cuts

• WFP - WFP Uganda Country Brief, July 2025

 Events, funding, training etc: 

• Supporting access to quality comprehensive health and nutrition services for new arrivals, settlement-based, and Kampala/Urban forcibly displaced persons and the host community - deadline 6 September

• Provision of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene services among refugee and hosting populations - deadline 6 September

• Provision of the following essential protection services (ECD, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Education Services ,CP, CBP, GBV, Legal Protection, Complementary Pathway - Voluntary Repatriation, Linkage to livelihoods  - deadline 6 September

• Provision of essential protection services: Provision of the following essential protection services: Education - general, CP, CBP, GBV, Legal protection, RC/TC mngt, CRI distribution, C-Pathways, VolRep - deadline 6 September

  • LOT 1 

  • LOT 2

  • LOT 3