Uganda Refugee News - October 2022- Edition 34

Apologies for the delay in sending you the October, and 34th, edition of Uganda Refugee News, but better late than never, right?!

All sectors are represented this month, which is still unusual but certainly welcome; the DRC continues to generate new caseloads, increasing the strain on the already stretched resources; and, despite the slow but steady increase in Ebola cases keeping everyone on their toes, I have chosen - at least for the time being - not to include these pieces in this newsletter.

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Sector specific: Education:

• AHEEN Network - Presentation - Higher education in emergencies - Leveraging refugee potential for sustainable livelihoods - 06 October 2022

• AJOL - Increasing access to education for refugees in Uganda

• Asbat Library - Low primary school enrolment among refugee children in Nakivale Settlement, Isingiro District, Uganda

• CWG - Uganda Refugee Response Financial Literacy Training Minimum Standards - Sept 2022

• News24/7 - British Council in Uganda Launches Report on refugee school Handbooks

• New Vision - Experts call for new policies to guide refugee education

• NRC - Presentation - Higher education in emergencies - Leveraging refugee potential for sustainable livelihoods - 06 October 2022

• Sunday Vision - Educating refugees against all odds in Uganda

• UNESCO - Teaching refugees against all odds in Uganda

• UNHCR - Arua Operation Term II 2022 Primary Education Gap Analysis

• UNICEF - Including refugee learners so that every child learns (Uganda)

Environment:

• AVSI - Teachers’ day: meet Olivia, from a child sponsored to teacher

• CARE - Promoting inclusive Natural Resource Management among refugees and host community

• CIFOR - Guidance for a Landscape Approach in Displacement Setting: Experiences from the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in Uganda

• MDPI - Woodfuel Consumption in Refugee Hosting Areas and Its Impact on the Surrounding Forests—The Case of Uganda

• Policy Commons - Scaling sustainable energy services for displaced people and their hosts

Health:

• BMC Public Health - COVID-19 epidemiology and changes in health service utilization in Uganda’s refugee settlements during the first year of the pandemic

• Bukedde - Refugees with disabilities do not have access to services

• Conflict and Health - Measuring results of humanitarian action: adapting public health indicators to different contexts - Numerous efforts have contributed to standardizing and presenting timely public health information in humanitarian settings over the last two decades. Health outcomes are rarely measured due to the challenges of measuring them using gold-standard methods that are difficult to implement in humanitarian settings.The authors discussed indicators in terms of utilization, perceived validity, feasibility and actionability, with more than 100 humanitarian actors working in a variety of organizations (national government offices, UN and NGOs) in five different crises, including Uganda

• European Journal of Psychotraumatology - Trajectories of psychosocial symptoms and wellbeing in asylum seekers and refugees exposed to traumatic events and resettled in Western Europe, Turkey, and Uganda

• Emerging Infectious diseases - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Refugee Settlement during COVID-19 Pandemic, Uganda, April 2021

• Global Compact - Integration of refugee health services into the Ministry of Health National Services in Uganda

• IAI Africa - ‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement

• UNHCR - Refugees need better mental health support amid rising displacement

• Water Mission - Restoration and Trauma Healing for Refugees in Northern Uganda

• Wellcome Open Research - Maximising impactful and locally relevant mental health research: ethical considerations - Achieving ethical and meaningful mental health research in diverse global settings requires approaches to research design, conduct, and dissemination that prioritise a contextualised approach to impact and local relevance. Through case studies including Uganda, this research considers the nuances to achieving ethical and meaningful mental health research.

Livelihoods

• African Affairs - Rethinking self-reliance and economic inclusion of refugees through a distributive lens: A case study from Uganda

• BBW - A new start through vocational orientation in Uganda

• Independent - South Sudanese refugees reap big from cassava farming

• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Self-Settled Urban Refugees in Kampala and Labor Market Dynamics

• Soft Power - Uganda rolls out new plan for refuges and host communities

• Uganda Radio Network - World Food Program to Start Skilling Refugees for Self-Reliance

• UNHCR - Global Roadmap for Refugee Entrepreneurship

• World Vision - Minutes of the Livelihood and Resilience Sector Working Group Meeting

Protection

• Journal of Global Security Studies - Conceptualizing Conflict-Related Child and Early Marriage as Insecurity: At the Intersection of Gender and Age

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

  • Protection Dashboard

  • GBV dashboard Quarter 2 2022

  • Child Protection dashboard Quarter 2 2022

• World Vision -

  • ''Life inside the camp is hard. We want to return back home''- Refugee children in Uganda

  • Advancing Child Mental Health and Protection in Humanitarian Settings: Evidence of Effectiveness of the Child Friendly Spaces Toolkit

WASH

• International Health - Associations between water insecurity and depression among refugee adolescents and youth in a humanitarian context in Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings

• World Vision - Uganda WASH Capacity Statement

Other:

• Assessing the effectiveness of the EMAP model for addressing sexual and gender based violence among refugee communities: reflections from Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda

• ACTED/Ayuda en Acción/CESVI/REACH Initiative/ Welthungerhilfe - Multi-Sectoral Rapid Needs Assessment Amongst Newly Arrived Refugees - Southwest and West Nile, Uganda, October 2022

• Cities Alliance - Uganda: Improving Refugee Integration with Urban Data

• CRS - Challenges facing Savings and Internal Lending Communities in a long-term refugee settlement setting: Implementing the PSP model among extremely vulnerable populations of Bidibidi refugee settlement in Uganda: Findings and recommendations

• D&C - Refugees offer opportunities

• ECHO - New influx of refugees (DG ECHO, UNHCR) (ECHO Daily Flash of 26 October 2022)

• GoU/UNHCR -

  • Refugee Statistics September 2022 - Kampala; Kyaka II; Oruchinga; Lobule; Bidi Bidi; Adjumani; Kiryandongo; Kyangwali; Imvepi; Nakivale; Palabek; Rhino; Palorinya;

  • Active Population by Settlement - September 2022

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

  • Refugee Influx Dashboard (As of 27 October 22)

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP 2022-23) Performance Dashboard - Quarter 2 2022 - Kyangwali; Rwamwanja; Nakivale; Oruchinga; Kyaka II;

  • Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021, - Quarter 2, January - June 2022

    • Shelter, Settlement & NFI Dashboard

    • Food and Security dashboard Quarter 2 2022

  • Refugee Influx Dashboard (As of 20 October 22)

  • Arua Operation Term II Efficiency Ratio Gap Analysis, September 2022

• Global Compact - Enhancing Refugees’ Voices in the Refugee Response Process in Uganda

• Independent - Refugees in West Nile abandon settlements for urban centers

• IGAD - A Capacity-Building Workshop for Women in Refugee Camps on Mediation Skills and Transfer of Knowledge in Order to Work as Mediators in their Own Rights

• Monitor - How Uganda can combat food insecurity among refugees

• Refugee Law Project - Gender and Access to Justice in Uganda’s Refugee Settlements The Experiences of South Sudanese Refugees

• SoS Medias Burundi - Nakivale (Uganda): exhausted refugees facing an untenable life

• Uganda Refugee Network - Refugee Temporary Shelters Demolished, Food Supply at Nyakabande Transit Centre Cut

• UNHCR -

  • Inter-Agency Situation Report - Uganda Refugee Emergency (7 – 13 October 2022); (14 - 31 October 2022)

  • Uganda Refugee Response: RRP Funding Dashboard Q2 2022

  • Uganda Flash Update: Influx from the DRC (26 October 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 30 September 2022)

  • Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region - Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (as of 30 September 2022)

  • South Sudan Situation/Uganda:

    • Palorinya Refugee Settlement Incidents Report (As of 30 September 2022)

    • Rhino Camp Settlement Conflict Dashboard (As of 30 September 2022)

• UNICEF - Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 4 - July - August 2022

• VoA - DRC Refugees to Uganda Expected to Double as Conflict Rages

• WFP -

  • WFP Uganda Country Brief, August 2022

  • Operational Overview - September 2022

  • Logistics Overview - September 2022

  • Refugee Settlements Population - October 2022

Events, Funding etc

• Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs - The 2022 Call for Proposals for International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs) - The call for proposals is for core and project support for INGOs development cooperation interventions. Approximately EUR 13 million will be allocated during this application round for use in 2023–2025. The call is open from 1 November until 30 November 2022. The call for proposals targets applications in the following thematic focus areas: sexual and reproductive health and rights, promotion of tax justice and promotion of food security.

• IFRC - Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations - Join for the 6th Edition to operationalize Corruption prevention in Humanitarian Operations - Wed 7 Dec - Sextortion; - Thu 8 Dec - Investigative interviews in Humanitarian Operations; - Fri 9 Dec - Integrity & Accountability.