Uganda Refugee News - January 2024

Welcome to the 49th edition of URN covering publications and news from the January, and first edition of URN in 2024

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Sector specific:

Education:

• Brookings - Ensuring school reentry for pregnant girls and teenage mothers in Uganda

• Childhood Education - (pay for access) - Building Refugee Youth Resilience, Voice, and Expression Through Wellbeing Pedagogy

• IRC - Learning Through Play in Uganda

• Journal of Research in Childhood Education - Understanding Access to and Learning Outcomes From ECE Among Refugees and Non-Refugee Populations in Uganda: A Cross-Cohort Comparison

• Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences - Pedagogies of Belonging: Lessons from Refugee Education for Times of Uncertainty

• UNESCO - Endline Study Report for Can't-Wait to Learn (CWTL) programme in Refugee Settlements in Uganda  

Environment & Energy:

• Africa news - (video) - Uganda: Refugees in Nakivale one of Africa's oldest settlements replant lost forests

• Annals of GIS - Refugee settlement induces accelerated land use/cover change in Northern Uganda

• AP -

  • (video) - In Uganda, refugees replant lost forests

  • In Uganda, refugees’ need for wood ravaged the forest. Now, they work to restore it

• BNN -

  • Billboard Waste Transforms into Refugee Shelters in Uganda

  • Refugee-Led Reforestation: A Green Revolution in Uganda’s Nakivale Settlement

  • Ugandan Refugees Transform Crisis into Opportunity: A Reforestation Mission

• Christian Science Monitor - African refugees put down roots in Uganda. Now, they plant seeds.

• Monitor - MTN's Innovative Partnership with Every Shelter Provides Sustainable Shelter for Refugees

• Research Gate - Refugee settlement induces accelerated land use/cover change in Northern Uganda

• Subject to Climate - African Refugees Seek to Reforest Uganda, One Tree at a Time

• Uganda Radio Network - Uganda gets 361 Billion Shillings, for Climate Change Refugee and Civic Space Support from Denmark

• Wion - (video) - Deforested lands of Nakivale, Uganda, refugee group restores barren lands | World Of Africa

Health:

• Friends Peace Teams - Trauma Education with South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda & Kenya 

• MDPI - Implementation of Healthy Men Healthy Communities: A Health Promotion and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Program for Male South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda

• Monitor -

  • 4 nutrition centres launched in Adjumani

  • 13 refugees hospitalised as cholera ravages Adjumani

• PAMJ - Investigation of a bacterial meningitis cluster in a refugee settlement, Obongi District, Uganda, March, 2023

• PML Daily - Under the Make way program AWAC, COTA engage youths in Rhino Refugee Settlement Camp on Climate Change, SRH, and GBV initiatives

• Urban TV Uganda - (video) - Nakivale Refugee Community gets multi-billion education facilities

• Uganda Radio News - (log in required) - Cholera Outbreak Reported in Adjumani District  

Livelihoods & Resilience:

• International Migration Review - Understanding the Dynamics of Refugee Impact on Employment: Evidence from Northern Uganda

• Kampala Post - Makerere University Equips over 400 Refugees with Entrepreneurship skills - this time, out of the 435 trainees, about 130 were Ugandans who live in refugee communities as per the 2006 Refugee Act as amended, which calls for the training of 30 percent of local people when training refugees in any activities. 

• Monitor - Makerere equips refugees with entrepreneurship skills

• Nile Post - Cash for work project to help refugees host communities support themselves

• NRC - A Critical Turning Point- The Path to Durable Solutions for Refugees in Uganda - November 2023

• UNHCR - (video) - Smiles project by IKEA Foundation to transform refugee livelihoods

• URC - (video) - Uganda Red Cross Society Improving Livelihoods And Fostering Peace Amongst Refugees In Imvepi.

• US Embassy - Helping refugees in Africa become entrepreneurs

• WFP/UNHCR - Cash Working Group - 2023 Minimum Expenditure Basket - Guidance Note  

Protection:

• BNN - A Refugee’s Predicament: DRC Native Boniface Sehungu’s Struggle for Safety in Uganda

• Monitor - Countrymen after my life, says DRC refugee 

• RSC - Oxford University - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) among protracted refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda: Addressing gaps in knowledge and responses

• UKFiet - Refugee Children with Disabilities in Uganda: The role of mothers

Other:

• Ayin Ntwork - Uganda suspends registration of Sudanese in the capital 

• Brand Spur - Uganda: From Displacement To Digital Success

• Cities Alliance - Global Refugee Forum: Ugandan Mayor Calls for Data and Direct Funding

• ECHO - “I feel safe and welcome”: the EU assists refugees as they enter Uganda at an increasing pace

• FEWS-Net -

• Uganda Key Message Update: Second-season harvests improve food access in bimodal areas, November 2023

• Uganda Price Bulletin, December 2023

• GoU/UNHCR

• Refugee Statistics December 2023 - Settlement & Urban Profiles

• Refugee Statistics December 2023

• Refugee Statistics Map - December 2023

• Suicide Dashboard December 2023

• Uganda Refugees & Asylum Seekers as of 31 December 2023

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

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

• IoM - Uganda Multi-Hazard Infographic - Response/DRR Platform (Published: 24th January 2024)

• MAF - Princess Anne flies with MAF to see refugee initiatives in Uganda

• Monitor -

• We need durable solutions for refugees

• Danish TV Collection raising funds for Uganda

• New Vision -

• South Sudanese, locals team up for Arua city pre-Liberation day clean up

• Audio - Arua City readies for inaugural South Sudanese cultural gala

• Adopt Uganda's refugee policy, UN tells EU countries

• Nile Post - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commends Uganda for inclusive refugee policy

• NTV - (video) - Refugee leaders seek support as more flock in from Sudan

• OPM - Museveni calls for African Integration to resolve Refugee Crisis

• WFP - Uganda Country Brief, December 2023

• Yada - Embracing Humanity: Uganda’s Approach to Refugee Integration and Human Rights Protection

•  Zawya - Uganda: From displacement to digital success

 

Feature:

 

Executive Short Course -

Addressing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Emergency Settings

Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies

 Training dates - 25 Nov 2024 to 29 Nov 2024

 Registration deadline - 6 Oct 2024

The overall objective of this executive short course is to provide humanitarian mid-level and senior managers with the knowledge, competencies, and skills required to conceive and operationalise a multidisciplinary approach in sexual violence prevention and response. This is both adapted to conflict and emergency settings and as an integral part of humanitarian operations.

The course offers to deepen participants’ understanding of sexual violence, its root causes and contributing factors, and its impact on individuals and communities with a particular focus on the East Africa region. The content adopts a survivor-centred and comprehensive approach to the core principles, challenges, and practices by exploring multi-sectoral responses, including health, mental health and psycho-social support, and justice.

Participants will be able to conceive safe and ethical interventions centred on victims/survivors’ rights, needs, and wishes, and will be competent to prevent and mitigate risks of sexual violence.

This residential course session in Entebbe focuses on East Africa and targets participants based or working in the region.