Uganda Refugee News - Edition - October 2023

Welcome to the 46th edition of URN covering publications and news from October 2023.

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Sector specific:

Education:

• AFI - BoU-AFI Regional Training on Financial Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced Persons – Opening Remarks by Deputy Governor Michael Atingi-Ego, Bank of Uganda

• Columbus University - Educators in Emergencies: The Lived Experiences and Professional Identities of Refugee and National Teachers in South Sudan and Uganda

• Education and Development - Teaching and thriving in refugee settings: creating an enabling environment

• Education International - Addressing the overlooked plight of refugee teachers

• FinnChurch Aid - FCA Uganda and UNHCR award 30 scholarships for refugees to study in Italy

• Ideas - Bidi Bidi Creativity: The Liminality of Digital Inclusion for Refugees in Ugandan Higher Education

• Monitor - UN urges end to unemployment as 90 refugees graduate in Uganda

• Nile Post - Windle Uganda, British Council boost teacher training in refugee camps

• New Vision -

  • Adjumani embraces ECD for inclusive equitable quality education

  • Uganda incurs sh4.9m trillion in refugee response annually

• UNHCR EHAGL - Education Update: Regional overview (July - September 2023)

• University of Edinburgh - Connected Policy, Practice, and Accreditation: Connected refugee education in Ugandan higher education

Environment & Energy:

• CCTV - TODAY Uganda-Deforestation Fight

• NFCO - The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa’s new investee POPO is accelerating access to electricity in remote areas in northern Uganda with its solar-powered battery rental services.

Health:

• Brookings Institute - Post-COVID school reentry for pregnant girls and young mothers in Ugandan refugee communities: A reality or myth?

• Conflict and Health - Forms of sexual violence perpetrated in conflict and post-conflict settings against South Sudanese men resettled in two communities in Uganda: an exploratory qualitative study

• FAO - Building durable solutions for refugees and host communities through inclusive value chain development in Uganda - A comprehensive agricultural livelihoods approach in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement

• Journal of International AIDS Society - Findings from the Tushirikiane mobile health (mHealth) HIV self-testing pragmatic trial with refugee adolescents and youth living in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda

• LWF - Prioritizing mental health for refugees in Uganda

• Makerere University - Factors influencing accessibility to healthcare amongst HIV/AIDS patients in Palabek refugee settlement and host community.

• Malaria Journal - Bayesian belief network modelling approach for predicting and ranking risk factors for malaria infections among children under 5 years in refugee settlements in Uganda

• Monitor -

  • Prioritizing mental health is a vital step towards refugees’ wellbeing in Uganda

  • Low family planning use fuelling teenage pregnancies in Acholi

• Pulse - 39 people commit suicide in refugee camps - New report

• Uganda Institute of Public health - Measles outbreak propagated by visiting a health centre in a refugee hosting community

• University of Bremen - The Role of basic psychological needs satisfaction for the psychological well-being and social-cultural integration of refugees in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• Xinhua - Young refugees in Uganda's Nakivale camp find hope, healing through art

Livelihoods & Resilience:

• NEW - Makerere University - Refugee household livelihood strategy choices in Kampala, Uganda

• CECI Uganda - Group Cash Grants for Women Refugee-Led Associations

• Global Press Journal - Safe but Sidelined: Qualified Refugees Are Being Turned Away From Jobs in Uganda - Lack of clarity and cohesion in laws governing the right to work means many who fled their countries are unable to pursue their careers.

• ILO - ILO experience on working with cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy in forced displacement contexts

• JNews - Allow refugees to use movable assets to access credit, banks told

• Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal - Financial inclusion and refugees’ self-reliance: an assessment for women’s economic empowerment at Nakivale refugee settlement, southwestern Uganda

• NTV - (video) -

  • 1.7 trillion on offer to refugee businesses

  • Government develops interventions to improve refugee livelihoods following repatriation

  • Refugees get skilled to reduce dependency on aid

  • New market to improve trade in Obungi

• New Vision - Zero Hunger:WFP strengthens ties with private sector to boost food production

• Monitor - Small businesses to benefit from $485m fund

• The Standard - Use evidence to boost financial inclusion for world's refugees

• The Refugee Voice - Refugees Turn Rocky Area into Farming Ground

• UNDP - Enhancing local trade for host communities and refugees through market infrastructure

• World Development - Cash transfers amid shocks: A large, one-time, unconditional cash transfer to refugees in Uganda has multidimensional benefits after 19 months

Protection:

• IDOS - Children in refugee camps and their role in refugee-host community integration

• The Independent - Judicial officers asked to protect rights of refugees, asylum seekers

• GoU -

  • Judiciary - Handbook On Refugee Access to Justice Launched

  • NARO -
    

    • “NARO understood and quickly responded to refugees’ needs” Rwamwanja RWC

    • NARO launches refugee project in Kyaka II settlement

• NTV - New guidelines launched to empower judicial officers

Other:

• Centre for Multilateral Affairs - How Uganda’s Refugee Policy Compares to the other EAC Member States

• CGTN - Funding crisis threatens Uganda's refugee program

• GRI Uganda - Refugee Welfare Committee – Ensuring Refugee Community Participation in Programs and Decision Making

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Refugee Statistics September 2023 - Active Population by Settlement

  • Refugee Statistics September 2023

  • Refugee Statistics Map - September 2023

  • Refugee Statistics September 2023 - Settlement & Urban Profiles

  • Uganda Refugee Response: Suicide Dashboard September 2023

  • Uganda Refugees & Asylum Seekers as of 30 September 2023

  • Population Dashboard: Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda as of 30 September 2023

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda - Uganda Refugee Response (30 September 2023)

• iNews - ‘Dancing has stopped us fighting’: How peace came to one of the world’s biggest refugee camps - Around 200,000 refugees escaping from conflict in South Sudan have made their home in Bidi Bidi, Uganda. Now dance is bringing some love and happiness

• Makerere University - Community integration model and the relationship between refugees and host communities in IMVEPI refugee host community, Uganda

• New Vision -

  • Burundian asylum seeker deported against court order

  • IGAD commends Uganda for hosting refugees

• NTV - World Bank pledges continued support for refugee project

• UNHCR -

  • 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan Progress Report - January to June 2023

  • UNHCR Uganda and JICA have signed a 3-year Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC).

  • Burundi Operations Overview, September 2023

  • South Sudan Situation: Population Dashboard - 30 Sep 2023

  • Somalia Situation: Population Dashboard - 30 Sep 2023

  • Sudan and South Sudan Situation | Refugees, Asylum-seekers and IDPs - 30 Sep 2023

  • Mid-Year Trends 2023

  • Best Practices from the EHAGL Region of Successful Cooperation with the Private Sector - October 2023

  • Regional Dashboard RB EHAGL:

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum - 30 Sep 2023

    • Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region - 30 Sep 2023

  • Uganda refugee operation impact of underfunding in 2023 (September - December) - Executive Summary

  • Uganda Impact of underfunding on the Refugee Response - Detailed

• UNICEF - Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 4: July - August 2023

• WHO - Uganda Newsletter (July to September 2023)

• Wilson Center - The Transient Refugee Trend in the Horn of Africa: Could This Call for a Shift in Policy?

• WFP - Uganda Country Brief, September 2023

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