HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Welcome to the first edition of 2023 (but covering the 'news' from the last month of 2022!)... and a very very happy 3rd birthday to URN.
As we look forward to another year, its important to remember that for those we work for and with, it is another year in exile, so our efforts need to focus on continuing to improve their situation in exile whilst never losing sight of what needs to be in place for when they return home.
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Sector specific: Education:
AVSI - AVSI humanitarian projects at Palabek refugee settlement - A photographic reportage tells how Northern Uganda has changed with AVSI. In this episode we go to the refugee settlement of Palabek, to discover the projects to guarantee the right to education to the children and young people in the camp, and to provide psychological support with a community approach.
Environment:
Closer Cities - Clean Cooking for refugees and host population in Uganda
The Independent -
Germany, EU provide Uganda Shs136bn for solar mini-grids - including the village clusters of Palorinya–Maaji
Shell & Dahlberg - Access to More - Creating Energy Choices for Refugees - A report about collaborative approaches to providing energy in displacement
Health:
IDOSR Journal of Science and Technology - Prevalence of AKI among Children with Severe Malaria at Kiryandongo General Hospital, Uganda
IPC - Partial IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis in refugee settlements and host districts - acute malnutrition analysis - February 2022 - January 2023
Livelihoods
Govt Netherlands/IFC - Consumer and market study in Southwest and West Nile refugee-hosting areas in Uganda
The Monitor - How skilling project gives refugees new lease of life
UN - (video) - Revitalizing Markets for Host Communities and Refugees
Protection
GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 3, January - September 2022
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs - Critical Roles of Refugee Leaders and Service Providers in the Gender-based Violence (GBV) Help-Seeking of Refugee Survivors
WASH
Children on the Edge - New Latrines and Water Tanks Improving Hygiene for Refugee Children in Uganda
ELRHA - New methods for new applications - In this short blogpost series, we are excited to share some of the initial learning from our HIF-funded WASH Evidence Challenge study in Uganda. This post, the second in the series, describes how we’re testing the SWOT out in new water supply use cases, as well as developing new tools for the SWOT toolkit that will provide for a more holistic understanding of water quality.
Other:
NEW - Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Refugee Welfare Councils (RWCs) as Spaces for Political Participation of refugees in Uganda
Caritas International - Local Actions, Global Lessons – Uganda, Burundi, Niger: The urgent need for durable solutions
France 24 - video - Fleeing DR Congo, thousands of Congolese refugees stream into Uganda
Globe and Mail - (pay for access) - As UN budgets stretch thin, African refugee camps grow desperate
The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - The Poverty and Its Implications among the South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda
The International Water management Institute - Circular bio-economy innovations for resilient refugee and host communities - The Resource Recovery and Reuse (RRR) in Refugee Settlements in Africa project is being implemented in six refugee camps and settlements and their surrounding host communities in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. The aim of the project is to increase the resilience of these communities through the implementation of RRR solutions.
Migrants & Refugees - National Youth Office Report on refugee activities for 2022
The New Humanitarian -
Who paid the price for Uganda’s refugee fraud scandal (and who didn’t)? Some say the international community’s investment in a ‘role model’ refugee hosting country constrained the push for accountability.
‘Life is even worse now’: Ration cuts and price rises hit refugees in Uganda - ‘If they keep on reducing aid, it keeps adding more trauma.’
No1 Citizen - South Sudanese in Uganda plea for total peace
Nottingham Forest - Forest and UK for UNHCR launch charity shirt partnership
Radio Tamazuj - Magwi: Thousands of refugees return home
Routledge - Book - (pay for content) - Design for Fragility - The Pilot Shelter Program
SoS Media Burundi - Nakivale (Uganda): election of new refugee representatives
UNHCR -
Regional Bureau for East, Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum
Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region - Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region
University of Nottingham - DRIVE Project interview data - These are the redacted transcriptions of interviews held with disabled refugee students and their families, education officials and NGO workers in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
University of Oxford - Refugee Studies Centre - Urban refugees and IDPs in secondary cities
Events, Funding etc
Training - Engaging with Human Rights Systems on Displacement and Statelessness (log in required) - In this 3-hour and 45-minute self-study curriculum, you will increase knowledge and competence on the topic of human rights law and human rights mechanisms, including how UN human rights mechanisms can be effectively used to promote the protection of asylum-seekers, refugees, stateless and internally displaced persons. After completing the course, you will take a test to verify your understanding and complete the curriculum.