Uganda Refugee News - December 2022

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:

• African Business - Second chance education offers new ray of hope for South Sudanese refugees living in Uganda

• 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.

• Makerere University - CEES, Jesuit Refugee Services Launch Scholarships for Refugees, Asylum Seekers & Vulnerable Women

• The Monitor - Refugees, host communities in West Nile, Kiryandongo receive Shs4.6b grant

• TARL - Fellows support Community Education Volunteers to teach foundational skills in rural communities

• The Observer - We Need More Effort for Refugees to Access Tertiary Education

• UNESCO - Teaching refugees against all odds in Uganda

• WPDI - WPDI Launches Innovative E-Learning Platform to Promote Hybrid Learning at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda

Environment:

• Closer Cities - Clean Cooking for refugees and host population in Uganda

• FAO - FAO, UNHCR, Uganda Government release ‘Blueprint’ Plan for managing forests around Refugee settlements in Uganda

• GiZ - Baseline assessment for market-based energy access for scale up projects in refugee settlements in Uganda

• The Independent -

  • Managing forests near refugee settlements

  • 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

• SolarSack - Impact evaluation report for the project "Emergency Response to Deforestation Crisis of the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement

• UNHCR - Impact Evaluation Report for the Project ‘Emergency Response to Deforestation Crisis of the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement’

Health:

• Early Childhood Development in Humanitarian Crises

• African Journal on Reproductive Health - Sexual and reproductive health factors associated with child, early and forced marriage and partnerships among refugee youth in a humanitarian setting in Uganda: Mixed methods findings

• Conflict and Society - “How to Live a Good Life” - Self-managing Reproductive Health for Adolescent Refugees in Kampala

• ELRHA - Research snapshot: Reaching refugees during the COVID19 pandemic

• GoU - Health Sector Integrated Refugee Response Plan 2019 - 2024

• IDOSR Journal of Science and Technology - Prevalence of AKI among Children with Severe Malaria at Kiryandongo General Hospital, Uganda

• ILO - Young Congolese refugee fights the Malaria endemic in Uganda

• IRC - The IRC warns of the latent reproductive health and child protection issues facing girls in emergency situations

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty - Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions against infectious diseases among crisis-affected populations: a scoping review

• IPC - Partial IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis in refugee settlements and host districts - acute malnutrition analysis - February 2022 - January 2023

• JMIR - Mobile Health-Supported Virtual Reality and Group Problem Management Plus: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Trial Among Urban Refugee and Displaced Youth in Kampala, Uganda (Tushirikiane4MH, Supporting Each Other for Mental Health)

• Research Gate - The influence of intra household gendered socio-economic relations on access to maternal health services : a case study of Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement

• SN Applied Sciences - Estimating the potential of spices for mineral provision in a refugee context in East Africa

• Women and Health - Factors associated with motherhood among urban refugee adolescent girls and young women in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda

Livelihoods

• African Business - Supporting refugees and host communities in Uganda to increase agricultural productivity and build resilience to climate change risks

• Eye Radio - Scarce opportunities push S. Sudanese refugees to gambling, drug abuse

• Govt Netherlands/IFC - Consumer and market study in Southwest and West Nile refugee-hosting areas in Uganda

• IFC - New IFC and UNHCR Initiative to Boost Private Sector Engagement for Refugees and Their Host Communities

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

• The Monitor - How skilling project gives refugees new lease of life

• Sharpe - Bringing Markets to Refugees: Beyond the Last Mile

• UNHCR - Labour Market Assessments covering Refugee Hosting Districts in Uganda - A desk review by the Livelihoods and Resilience Sector Working Group (LRSWG)

• UN - (video) - Revitalizing Markets for Host Communities and Refugees

• You Tube (video) - Over 56,000 Refugees Have Left Settlements In Uganda Because Of Feeding Challenges

Protection

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 3, January - September 2022

  • Child Protection Dashboard

  • Gender-Based Violence Dashboard

  • Protection

• Independent - 1,400 girls impregnated in Bidibidi refugee settlement annually

• IRC - The IRC warns of the latent reproductive health and child protection issues facing girls in emergency situations

• Journal of Humanitarian Affairs - Critical Roles of Refugee Leaders and Service Providers in the Gender-based Violence (GBV) Help-Seeking of Refugee Survivors

• Monitor - Refugee children demand safety in settlement camps

• UNCST - Experiences of Gender Based Violence among Refugee Populations in Uganda: Evidence from Four Refugee Camps

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.

• Makerere University - Design of a water purification technology for the removal of Iron, Manganese, and Escherichia coli from ground water supply of Oruchinga Refugee Settlement Communities

• Peace Winds Japan - New WASH Project for the New Arrivals at Kyaka II Refugee Settlement in Western Uganda

Other:

• NEW - Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Refugee Welfare Councils (RWCs) as Spaces for Political Participation of refugees in Uganda

• Agenzia Fides - Ration cuts and price increases seriously affect refugees in Uganda

• Barca Foundation - Barça and the un refugee agency announce in Geneva their alliance for protecting refugee children and young people, which will be reflected on the back of the jersey

• Caritas International - Local Actions, Global Lessons – Uganda, Burundi, Niger: The urgent need for durable solutions

• CRRF - 15th Refugee Engagement Forum Meeting Report

• DDRN - South Sudan: Interaction of Refugees and Their Hosts in Uganda Could Foster Peaceful Co-existence Back Home. But When?

• Fews-Net -

  • Uganda Key Message Update: Stressed (IPC Phase 2) and Crisis (IPC Phase 3) populations reduce with second season harvests, November 2022

  • Uganda Food Security Outlook, October 2022 to May 2023

  • Uganda Price Bulletin,

    • December 2022

    • November 2022

• France 24 - video - Fleeing DR Congo, thousands of Congolese refugees stream into Uganda

• FSD - FSD Africa – Impact Report – 2022

• Globe and Mail - (pay for access) - As UN budgets stretch thin, African refugee camps grow desperate

• GoU - Uganda Refugees & Asylum Seekers as of 30 November 2022

• GoU/UNHCR -

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda - Uganda Refugee Response (30 November 2022)

  • Refugee Statistics November 2022

    • Active Population by Settlement

    • Refugee Statistics Map

    • Settlement Profiles

    • Adjumani

• IFC/UNHCR - New IFC and UNHCR initiative to boost private sector engagement for refugees and their host communities

• 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.

• IoM - Flow Monitoring Survey Dashboard: Uganda-Kenya Border (November 2022)

• 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

• Research Gate - Enhancing the protection of the rights of refugees in Uganda: A new lease of life from SDG 10.7.4

• Routledge - Book - (pay for content) - Design for Fragility - The Pilot Shelter Program

• SoS Media Burundi - Nakivale (Uganda): election of new refugee representatives

• Sports management Review - Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda

• UNHCR -

  • Regional Bureau for East, Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum

    • (as of 31 October 2022)

    • (as of 30 November 2022)

  • Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region - Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region

    • (as of 31 October 2022)

    • (as of 30 November 2022)

  • Burundi Situation: Population of concern to UNHCR as of 31 October 2022

  • 2022 South Sudan Regional RRP: Regional Overview of the South Sudanese refugee population as of 30 November 2022

• UNICEF - UNICEF Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 5 - September - November 2022

• UNICEF/WFP - UNICEF and WFP begin construction of joint premises in Uganda

• 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

• WFP - Uganda country brief - October 2022

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.