Uganda Refugee News -Edition 42 - June 2023

Sector specific:

Education:

• Global Partnership - My experience of education as a refugee - After fleeing violence in South Sudan, Seme arrived without his family in Uganda, where he was able to attend school in the Bidibidi refugee settlement. He talks about the many challenges refugee children like him face to pursue their education.

• Monitor - Refugee communities exposed to digital skills

• Research in Comparative & International Education - Integrating refugee students into Ugandan higher education: Language, othering and everyday enactments of participation

• U-Learn - Mobile TVET programming in the Uganda refugee response

Environment & Energy:

• NEW - NTNU - Land Access and Management rights among refugee women in Uganda. A Case study of Lobule Refugee settlement, West Nile Sub-Region.

• EnDev - From darkness to light: EnDev tackles energy poverty in refugee settlements

• PNAS - Refugee settlements are highly exposed to extreme weather conditions

• UNU - Refugee Settlements Extremely Vulnerable to Climate Crises - New UNU research explores the extent to which climate crises affect 20 of the world’s largest refugee settlements.

• VoA - Aid Cuts, Climate Change Hit South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda

Health:

• NEW - Open University - Knowledge, resources and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights: The views and experiences of young refugees living in Kyangwali refugee settlement, Western Uganda

• BMC Women's Health - Using human-centered design to co-design dedicated menstrual health spaces with people who menstruate in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda: Learnings for further adaptation and scale in humanitarian settings

• Research Square - Bayesian belief network modeling approach for predicting and ranking risk factors for malaria infections among children under five years in refugee settlements in Uganda

• UN Women - Hope away from home: Addressing mental health issues among refugees

Livelihoods & Resilience

• ACF

  • Uniting to Save Money in Uganda: Lessons in Financial Literacy

  • A Single Plot, a World of Difference

  • Rebuilding Lives and Livelihoods: How a Community of Ugandan Refugees Became Entrepreneurs

  • Learning through Farmer Field Schools: How Ugandan Communities Found Self-Sustainability

• Grand Challenges - Seed Stories – Respond Local: Aggregating and matching needs with offers of humanitarian supplies and services in times of crisis

• DigWatch - Refugees in Uganda to receive digital skills training for improved employability

• FAO - Inclusion through agriculture for refugees in Uganda

• ForAfrika - Working together, refugees and Ugandan nationals are thriving

• FSD Africa - From Hope to Prosperity: A refugee’s journey of triumph in a settlement in Uganda

• ILO - With Uganda embracing digital transformation of jobs, stakeholders gather to discuss opportunities and challenges

• Independent - Rhino camp refugee settlement to venture into rice production

• Nigeria - Uganda and Japan Partner to Establish Mass Rice Production in Refugee Settlement

• RiL - U-RIL publishes new Matchmaker on job linkages for refugees

• U-Learn

  • Exploring the challenges faced by formal refugee-owned businesses in Uganda

  • Entrepreneurship desk review

• VoxDev - Win-Win integration: Learning from Uganda’s response to South Sudanese refugees

Protection

• International Journal of Qualitative Methods - Qualitative Comic Book Mapping: Developing Comic Books Informed by Lived Experiences of Refugee Youth to Advance Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Stigma Reduction in a Humanitarian Setting in Uganda

• VoA - External Pressures Increasing Suicide Risk at Refugee Settlement in Uganda

Other:

• NEW - World Development - Inclusive refugee-hosting can improve local development and prevent public backlash

• AA - Lack of funding depriving refugees of basic needs in Africa: UN - Refugees face deterioration in welfare with no access to basic needs, including healthcare, education, says UN official

• CDAC - Using video to enable meaningful participation of refugees in monitoring, evaluation and learning

• CECI - Uganda Impact Report 2020-2022

• Cities Alliance - Uganda: Koboko Recognised for Best Practices in Refugee Integration

• DRC - Uganda Cash Consortium Receives €6 Million in Funding from European Union to Provide Cash Assistance to Refugees in Uganda

• DW - DW Akademie and UNHCR launch radio project in one of Africa's largest refugee settlements - Vital, reliable information for 270,000 refugees from East Africa: That is the goal of a joint project by the UN refugee agency UNHCR and DW Akademie in Uganda.

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Funding tracking of the Refugee Response Plan (RRP): Activity Info Reporting Module for Funding Reporting Step by Step Guide - June 2023

  • Performance Tracking of the Refugee Response Plan (RRP): Activity Info Reporting Module Step by Step Guide - June 2023

  • Refugee Statistics May 2023

  • Refugee Statistics May 2023 - Active Population by Settlement

  • Refugee influx

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda - Uganda Refugee Response (31 May 2023)

  • Population Dashboard: Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda as of 31-May-2023

• IDEAS - Poverty dynamics and poverty traps among refugee and host communities in Uganda

• International Academy of Practical of Theology - Crisis as displacement and opportunity: Reflections on the way South Sudanese women cope with war in refugee camps

• (Im)Mobilities, Security and Identities in West Africa Borderlands - Attitudes of Refugees Towards Integration: The Experience of South Sudanese Refugees in Adjumani District in Uganda

• FEWS-Net - Uganda Price Bulletin, May 2023

• Malmo University - From Policy to Practice: Addressing the Challenges of Women Refugees in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• Monitor

  • Refugee communities to get internet connection

• MSF

  • Thousands in need of assistance in Ugandan refugee settlement

  • Photostory: The lives of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

  • Uganda: Over 30,000 refugees waiting for adequate help in the Nakivale refugee settlement

• NRC - Failing the ‘Uganda Model’: Why Donors Must Urgently Bridge Uganda’s Refugee Financing Gap - Policy Brief (June 2023)

• ProQuest - Parent and Child Wellbeing in a Humanitarian Context

• Samuel Hall - South Sudan’s decades of displacement: Understanding return and questioning reintegration

• UNHCR -

  • Regional Bureau for East, Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (as of 30 April 2023)

  • Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region (as of 30 April 2023)

  • 2023 South Sudan Regional RRP: Regional Overview of the South Sudanese refugee population as of 30 April 2023

• UNICEF - Accelerating inclusion of refugee children - what we have learnt and what it takes

• WFP -

  • Uganda Country Brief, May 2023

  • Impacts of the Cost of Inaction on WFP Food Assistance in Uganda (2021 & 2022), April 2023