Uganda Refugee News - Edition 26 - February 2022

Sector specific:

Education:

• JRS - New lab facilities in Uganda break down barriers for refugee girls in science

• U Learn - Digital Financial Literacy Training in the Uganda refugee response – Learning Brief

Environment

• NEW - The Semantic Scholar - The Energy Potential of Harvested Wood Fuel by Refugees in Northern Uganda

• The Chimp Reports - Nakivale refugees gets solar powered water

• DRC - Building resilience while contributing to environmental regeneration – Lessons learned from the NURI Programme

• Environmental Science and Pollution research - (pay for content) - Refugees, governance, and sustainable environment: PQARDL method

• The Independent - Refugees and environmental degradation

• NTV - video - Kikuube District to spend Shs2Bn on Kyangwali Reserve for refugees welfare - Kikuube District Local Government has invested 2.2 billion shillings for the Development of Road Infrastructure at Kyangwali. The District launched the rehabilitation of the 30 km road that covers the entire Refugee Camp and it is expected to cost 1.76 billion shillings

• The Scientific World Journal - The Energy Potential of Harvested Wood Fuel by Refugees in Northern Uganda

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Health:

• AIDS and Behaviour - Social Support and Linkage to HIV Care Following Routine HIV Testing in a Ugandan Refugee Settlement

• BMC Public Health - Access to preventive sexual and reproductive health care for women from refugee-like backgrounds: a systematic review

• Europe PMC - Psychological Flexibility in South Sudanese Female Trauma Survivors in Uganda as a Mechanism for Change Within a Guided Self-Help Intervention

• IMedPub Journals - Determinants of Help-Seeking Behaviours among Persons with Depression in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement Camp, Kyegegwa District, Uganda

• International Journal of STD & AIDS - Social contextual factors associated with lifetime HIV testing among the Tushirikiane urban refugee youth cohort in Kampala, Uganda: Cross-sectional findings

• Oxfam - Access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees in Uganda

• U Learn - Inter-agency rumours bulletin February 2022

Livelihoods

• NEW - World Vision - Refugee women weaving brighter futures for their families

• New - Financial Biographies of People Coping with New Surroundings (pgs10-34) - In Uganda, we interviewed refugees and migrants from Somalia, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda. We saw that those who had chosen to live in the city of Kampala, would overtime, likely experience a progression in their earnings from less than $1 a day to more than $4 a day and, for the enterprising few, far more. Those in the camp often resorted to selling their food rations to survive.

• ECHO/World Vision/ZOA/SNV - AGRICULTURE VC Study Presentation

• Ensibuuko - ETL Presentation

• FAO - Opening up new frontiers for young people and refugees in agribusiness

• ILO - PROSPECTS in Uganda - at a glance - February 2022

• Identifying an optimal ecosystem model of refugee-related businesses via an online systems-based evolutionary meaning laboratory:A case in Uganda

• Opportunity International - Life on the Margins: Meeting the Unique Needs of Refugees and Students in Uganda

• Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation - The Food Systems Approach applied in city regions - Lessons learned from four case studies in low- and middle-income countries Kennis Basis Programme Feeding the Cities and Migration Settlements

• U Learn

  • Uganda Refugee response Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) user perspectives – Research brief

  • Financial Services in the Uganda Refugee Response – An assessment of users’ perspective

• UNDP - Voices of change from UNDP/KOICA Refugee Beneficiaries

Protection

• CARE - Voices of change from UNDP/KOICA Refugee Beneficiaries

• Evidence and Policy - Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods

• Linnaeus University - Male Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Uganda - A case study on conflict-related sexual violence in Uganda and how local organizations treat sexually violated men.

WASH

• AIRD - Scaling up availability of access to soap for displaced persons in North Western Uganda

• Shift Media - Opportunity Bank Uganda Supports Nakivale Refugee Camp With Clean Water

• International Journal for Equity in Health - Social and geographic inequalities in water, sanitation and hygiene access in 21 refugee camps and settlements in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe

Other:

• NEW - Everyday mobility among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda reveals agency and uncertainty

• CWG/UNHCR - CWG Newsletter Nov 2021 - Jan 2022

• ECHO - Factsheet – Uganda (Last updated 08/02/2022)

• Fews-Net - Uganda Price Bulletin, January 2022

• GoU - Uganda Active Population Population by settlement: January 2022

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Refugee Statistics January 2022

  • Refugee Statistics Map - January 2022

  • Refugee Statistics January 2022 - Bidibidi, Adjumani; Imvepi; Kampala; Kiryandongo; Kyaka II; Kyangwali; Lobule; Nakivale; Palabek; Oruchinga; Palorinya; Rhino; Rwamanja

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda (31 January 2022)

• GoU/UNHCR/WFP -

  • Uganda Cash Working Group, Newsletter November 2021 – January 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 January 2022)

• REACH/WFP - Monitor - Refugee Hosting Areas | Refugee Settlement Price and Market Functionality Snapshot, 1-30 November 2021

• U Learn -

  • Refugee Engagement Forum in Uganda – Good Practice Study Brief

  • AAP Training Recap: Uganda Refugee Response

• UNHCR - East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region Operational Update (October – December 2021)

• UNICEF -

  • Uganda Humanitarian Situation Overview (as of January to December 2021)- infographic

  • Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 6 - January - December 2021

• WFP/UNHCR/REACH -

  • Refugee Settlement Price and Market Functionality Snapshot, 1-30 Nov 2021

  • USAID-WFP Market Monitor Price Data Table Nov 2021

• World Bank - Social Cohesion and Refugee-Host Interactions - Evidence from East Africa

• Yeni Safak - Lack of basic services upset refugees returning to homes in South Sudan

Feature:

Migrants and forcibly displaced persons: Towards greater inclusion and protection

Second international conference of the Research and Evidence Facility - Nairobi and online, 9-10 June 2022

Themes Conference content will be split along themes that allow participants to explore the diverse topics addressed during the event. Key themes are: 1. Climate change and human mobility 2. Gender, forced displacement and migration 3. Migration and migration research in the time of COVID-19 4. Refugee and IDP inclusion 5. Forced displacement and protection 6. Private sector involvement with migration and forced displacement 7. Information technology and financial digitisation 8. Borderlands and cross-border movements Sessions All sessions will run for 75 minutes with one moderator/ host. We will hold a mix of plenary sessions and smaller parallel sessions (two at a time, technology permitting) will be held. We are exploring possibilities of hosting online with companies who have demonstrated competence in this area.

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