Uganda Refugee News - Edition 62 - February 2025

Uganda Refugee News
Mar 8
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Updated: May 1

Sector specific:

Education:

BRAC - From refugee to educator: How play heals two generations in Uganda
ECHO - Supporting refugee schoolchildren: how the INCLUDE project is making a difference
FAWE - Tuseme – A Voice for IDP and Refugee Children
GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024 - 2025, Education Dashboard - Quarter 4 2024
Monitor - Uganda to roll out digital skilling programs in refugee camps
NTV - Kyangwali school opens girls' dormitory
UNESCO - Restoring hope: 49 refugees in Uganda receive UNESCO Qualification Passport, recognizing their prior learning - A ceremony was held in Kampala to award the UNESCO Qualification Passports to displaced refugees living in Uganda following an evaluation for the recognition of their prior learning and qualifications.
University of NSW - Information Journeys of Refugees in Higher Education: The case of Uganda

Environment & Energy:

Asheden - Refugee-led energy access - A guide to scaling solutions, for funders and the humanitarian sector. See how support for refugee-led organisations can drive inclusive, sustainable economic development.
The Conversation - How refugee entrepreneurs are supplying sustainable energy to the camps they live in
GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024 - 2025, Environment & Energy Dashboard - Quarter 4, January - December 2024

Health:

Cambridge - Caregiver characteristics and behaviors: quantitative associations with child
depression amongst refugees in Uganda
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 1 - Correction: Mental health needs in war-affected refugee children: barriers, gaps, and strategies for effective care
Journal of Affective Disorders - A sport-for-protection program reduces anxiety and depression in youth affected by displacement: A randomized controlled trial of the Game Connect program in Uganda
Nile Post - Understaffing Affects Health Services at Kiryandongo Panyadoli Health Centre IV
PLOS - Prevalence and associated factors of depression among adult refugees in East Africa: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
University of Edinburgh - A qualitative study on sexual and reproductive health needs and risks of adolescents in Bidibidi refugee settlement, Uganda
University of South Wales - Harmful alcohol use among forcibly displaced populations: Neglect, challenges, and solutions

Livelihoods and Resilience
Global Press Journal - Without USAID Support, Refugees in Uganda Lose Food, Job Training - Uganda hosts 1.8 million refugees and asylum-seekers, the largest number of any African country. But without US funding, basic services like food distribution are likely to end.
GoU/UNHCR -
- Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024 - 2025,
ICT Weeks - The Hidden 30% Cost Premium of Digital Cash Transfers for Refugees
Jesuit Worldwide Learning - The Boy Lost in the Forest: A Journey to Hope - Maitha, a JWL E-Commerce graduate in Kampala, shares his powerful journey “from a boy lost in a forest” of uncertainty to a man filled with hope and new dreams
KRC Uganda - Bank loan transforms a single mother's life, helping her rebuild and start business
LRSWG -
- Meeting Minutes - Livelihoods and Resilience SWG Minutes_November 2024
- Meeting Minutes - Livelihoods and Resilience SWG Minutes_October 2024
Mastercard - Young Africa Works – Uganda: Partnerships, Progress, and Impact
Medium - Refugee entrepreneurs paying it forward through innovative microloans
NRC - Guide to Recognition of Business, Technical, and Vocational Training (BTVET) Certificates in Uganda
PLAVU - Including refugees lifts up entire communities in Uganda
Practice and Policy Developments in Migrant Entrepreneurship Special Issue - A trauma-informed approach: Temporal reorientation, identity reconstruction and preventing retraumatisation in refugee entrepreneurship support
Research Gate - Aligning Sustainable Finance and Fintech to Promote an Integrated Approach to Refugee Finance
Response Innovation Lab - RIL Story | Sowing Hope: A Refugee's Odyssey of Empowerment and Change

Protection

GoU/UNHCR -
- Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2024 - 2025,
Monitor - UN records 47 suicide cases among refugees in Uganda
UNHCR - Protection Brief - DRC - February 2025

WASH

Other:

Events, funding etc:

Upcoming
- Celebrating Refugee Host Country Leadership: Moldova and Uganda - March 6 - 1-2:30pm - Online
Applications are now open for THEA Inclusive Investment Pilots to support the development of clean, affordable and sustainable energy delivery models in displacement settings in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. We have up to 12 grants available for up to £10,000 (local currency equivalent) – 6 in Uganda, 3 in Ethiopia and 3 in Kenya. Funding will support projects for 12 months. Projects should be completed by the end of June 2026 at the latest. This open call will accept applications from enterprises and not-for profits who are founded and led by refugees and forcibly displaced people, as well as applications from individual entrepreneurs who are a refugee or forcibly displaced person. Applications closing on 17 March 2025

Other:

Events, funding etc:

Upcoming
- Celebrating Refugee Host Country Leadership: Moldova and Uganda - March 6 - 1-2:30pm - Online
Applications are now open for THEA Inclusive Investment Pilots to support the development of clean, affordable and sustainable energy delivery models in displacement settings in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. We have up to 12 grants available for up to £10,000 (local currency equivalent) – 6 in Uganda, 3 in Ethiopia and 3 in Kenya. Funding will support projects for 12 months. Projects should be completed by the end of June 2026 at the latest. This open call will accept applications from enterprises and not-for profits who are founded and led by refugees and forcibly displaced people, as well as applications from individual entrepreneurs who are a refugee or forcibly displaced person. Applications closing on 17 March 2025

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