Sector Specific
Education:
FCA - Support from all sides for refugee schoolchildren, thanks to the EU-funded INCLUDE project
HI - Inclusive Education in Uganda: Santina faces life’s obstacles with a smile
Learning, Media and Technology - Minimal computing in refugee education in Uganda: economies of digital use and non-use, and the right constraints
Monitor - Poverty, alcoholism blamed for high rate of school dropout among Adjumani refugees
UNESCO - Teaching refugees against all odds in Uganda
Environment & Energy:
Energy Research and Social Science - Understanding the drivers of electricity access and willingness to pay for reliable electricity in African refugee settlements: Evidence from Zambia, Malawi, and Uganda
NTV - (video) - Refugees and locals in Bidi Bidi unite to tackle e-waste
Race to Resilience - Refugee-led initiative fosters soil health and resilience in Uganda
Utrecht University -
Health:
Angels in Medicine - Uganda’s Healthcare System Strains Under Wave of Cross-Border Medical Refugees
Ibis Public Health - Abortion experiences of women and girls living in Bidibidi refugee settlement: Implications for frontline health care workers
Makerere University -
Monitor -
Nile Post - Rwamwanja refugee settlement registers decline in mental health cases
Pubmed - Subclinical malaria among pregnant women living in refugee settlements in Northern Uganda
SSM Mental Health - Developing an explanatory model of alcohol misuse among South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda: A qualitative study
Uganda Radio Network - Adjumani Leaders Concerned Over Refugee Livestock
Washington University - Study finds low viral load suppression among refugee youth in Ugandan settlements
Livelihoods & Resilience:
ACCION - Refugee women rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods in Uganda
ACF - MacArthur 100&Change: Harnessing the Potential of Refugees for Community Resilience in Uganda
AP - 'We just want to feed our kids': Refugees in Uganda struggle as assistance dwindles
Chimp Reports - Kiryandongo: UAE Embassy Donates 700, 000 Tons of Food Aid to Refugees
The Guardian - ‘Those women are the embodiment of resilience’: how refugees in Uganda are building a future filled with hope
ILO - Presentation - ILO - An overview of the Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS)
New Vision -
Monitor -
Nile Post - Strømme Foundation Hosts Youth Conference
Observer - Deaths by suicide rampant among refugees – Report
SSHAP - Key Considerations: Food Assistance Prioritisation in Refugee Settlements in Uganda and its Impacts
SwissContact - Presentation - Swisscontact - Learning from Uthabiti’s Business Partnership Model - 7 November 2024
U-Learn - Contributions to Uganda’s Jobs and Livelihoods Integrated Response Plan (JLIRP)
University of Agder - Essay on financial inclusion: the case of informal savings groups
US Embassy -
Protection:
IPCID - ‘Food… but no money’: Considering social protection and notions of self-reliance for
Tufts University - Evan Easton-Calabria addresses social protection for refugees in Uganda
UBC - (video) - NRC supporting Ethiopian & Eritrean refugees in Kampala through protection and safety desk
WASH
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development - Water supply for refugees and their host communities in protracted situations: costs and financing options for sustaining services in Ethiopia and Uganda
SOS Médias Burundi - Rwanda/Uganda : shortage of drinking water in two Burundian refugee camps - The camps of Mahama in Rwanda and Nakivale in Uganda have recently been experiencing a worrying lack of drinking water. Reasons are diverse but consequences are worrying for refugees who are calling for urgent intervention to avoid the worst.
UNICEF - UNICEF and other humanitarian actors respond to water challenges in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement
Other
Critical HSGJ - Navigating the Paradoxes of Humanitarian Aid: Dependency, Conflict, and Gender Dynamics in Refugee Communities
CTGN - (video) - Uganda keeps doors open for Sudanese refugees
ECHO - In Uganda, aiding Sudanese fleeing war – and the world’s largest hunger catastrophe
ELRHA - Scaling humanitarian innovation: challenges, insights, and the path forward
FEWS-Net -
GoU/UNHCR
Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP) 2024-2025 -
Population Dashboard -
Feedback, Referral, and Resolution Mechanism (FRRM), October 2024 Newsletter
Sudanese Refugees and Asylum-Seekers,
ICVA - Localisation in Humanitarian Leadership - October 2024
IFRC - Uganda Population Movement DREF Operational Update (MDRUG051), 6 Nov 2024
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies - Returning to fund refugeehood: dispersal and survival between Uganda and South Sudan
Lux Times - African NGO wins Luxembourg’s €100,000 microfinance award - Rural Finance Initiative Limited (RUFI) works on advancing financial inclusion of refugees and forcibly displaced persons
Medium - Uganda’s Refugee Open-Door Policy, Ideal or Strategic Agenda?
Monitor -
The New Humanitarian - Reporter’s diary: The struggle for survival for South Sudanese returnees - ‘There is no house, no food, and no place to sleep for the children.’
New Vision - CSO call for legal reforms to address refugee rights
NTV - (video) -
OECD - The humanitarian-development-peace nexus and forced displacement - Progress, insights and recommendations for operational practice
Refugee International - “Climate Change is Hitting Us the Hardest. We Want to be Part of the Solutions.”
TechPolicy Press - The Democratic Deficit in AI Humanitarian Systems: Why Community Participation Can't Wait
Times of India - Africa's largest refugee camp in Uganda gets a healing touch from Goa via football
UNHCR
Uganda Refugee Response:
Population Dashboard:
Regional Dashboard RB EHAGL:
Sudan Situation Map Weekly Regional Update -
UNICEF - Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement: UNICEF, LWF giving Sudanese refugees a new lease on life. Thanks to support from UNICEF, LWF and UNHCR in conjunction with OPM, Sudanese nationals fleeing the war in their country are being settled, protected and equipped with survival skills in Uganda.
University of Alberta - Home, music, memory of Congolese refugee's in Uganda - A hope
Events
Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry survey - 28 January 2025 16:00 to 17:30 - Online - The speakers will share findings from a large, multicountry representative survey of 16,000 refugee and host community members in both urban and camp settings across Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. The findings underscore the disproportionate burden of depression on refugees in East Africa, particularly those exposed to prolonged violence and displacement, and highlight the need for targeted mental health interventions.
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