Uganda Refugee News - July 2022 - Edition 31

The summer is often a time when our focus drops but this newsletter is jam packed with content covering an wide range of issues and interestingly, focusing on some under reported areas.

Its been a while since there have been publications on Rwanda refugees and generally male victims of sexual violence is an area that doesn't get a lot of focus. The health sector is - as usual - the most prolific but I think cancer care for refugees is a welcome first this month. Last, a big shout out to those looking at the needs, impact and dynamics of urban refugees - a clear recognition that many refugees are no longer, or not exclusively, settlement based.

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Sector specific: Education

• NEW - Transformation in Higher Education - The role of institutional practice, non-educational actors and social networks in shaping refugee student lifeworlds in Ugandan higher education

• WF - Vocational skills tailoring refugees to self-reliance

• UNICEF - Including refugee learners so that every child learns

Environment

• SCC - Learning from programs de-risking PAYGO solar home systems in Uganda refugee settlements

Health:

• Afrika Focus - Psychosocial Support and Protection for Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda: A Needs Assessment

• BMJ Health - Examining the substance use, violence and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings

• Cogitatio - Urban Refugees’ Digital Experiences and Social Connections During Covid‐19 Response in Kampala, Uganda

• EUI Migration Policy Centre - “Migration Governance and Migration Diplomacy in Uganda”

• Global Social Welfare -(pay for content) War-Affected South Sudanese in Settings of Preflight, Flight, and Resettlement: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Trauma-Associated Mental Disorders

• Global Public Health - Mixed-methods findings from the Ngutulu Kagwero (agents of change) participatory comic pilot study on post-rape clinical care and sexual violence prevention with refugee youth in a humanitarian setting in Uganda

• The Independent - Congolese refugee children battle malnutrition

• International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Analysis - The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on The Livelihood of Urban Refugees in Arua City, Uganda

• Movenid - Ugandan Refugees Suffer from Increased Mental Health and Substance Use Problems

• Nile Post - Opinion: Economic and financial inclusion critical for safety of urban refugees

• Plos Global Public Health - “They will say you want to make their home die”: A mixed methods study to assess modern family planning use in partnered South Sudanese refugee and host populations in Northern Uganda

• Reach/UNHCR/UNICEF - Child Protection Assessment in Refugee-hosting Districts (May 2022)

• Research Square -

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Emergency Communities. A survey on the Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, South Western Uganda

  • Is it COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy or inquisitiveness? Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among the adult population in Northern Uganda. A cross-sectional study.

  • Lived Experiences Of GBV Survivors, As They Try Seeking For Help In Emergency Communities, Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda

• UICC - Providing cancer care to refugees in Uganda

• Uganda Radio Network - Congolese Refugee Children Battle Malnutrition

Livelihoods

• NEW - UNHCR - Socioeconomic assessment of refugees through Individual Profiling Exercise - Home Visits, 2022

• Emerald Insight - (pay for content) - Exploring Refugees Entrepreneurial Support Organizations in Uganda - This chapter explores how refugees in Uganda are supported through entrepreneurial approaches.The findings show that while the majority of these organizations purport to follow an innovation discourse, in reality, they support refugees through a mixture of inclusion, resilience, and innovation-led approaches.

• IIED/Cardiff University - Displacement economies in an urban world

• ILO -

  • Comprehensive rapid assessment of public employment services in Uganda - With a special assessment in two target host community refugee settlements for the PROSPECTS programme

    • Piloting private service provision to refugees and host communities in Uganda

• IRC - Refugees in East Africa: Boosting Urban Innovations for Livelihoods Development (Re:Build) - Influence and adoption of the refugee policy legal framework analysis - 07 July 2022

• Refugee Investment Network - Responding to Barriers Through Refugee Lens Investing: Uganda Study - This white paper uses a sector-specific “priority business model” approach to identify the two highest impact models of business for RLI in Uganda: (1) Adding value to products and (2) Access to larger markets and brands. With these models in mind, RIN selected nine key Ugandan business sectors to conduct sector analysis with examples of active players that point to areas for partnership and investment

Protection

• Linnaeus University - Male Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Uganda

• LSE - Occult threats to safety and protection in a Ugandan refugee settlement

• REACH/UNHCR/UNICEF - Child Protection Assessment in Refugee-hosting Districts (May 2022)

WASH

• NTV - DRC REFUGEES: Overcrowded transit camp raises disease outbreak fears

• UNHCR - Identifying Groundwater Potential Mapping, Uganda

Other:

• NEW - Addressing human trafficking among refugees and internally displaced persons in Uganda: a role for human rights treaty bodies?

• NEW - Population Council

• Conducting a Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) Among Humanitarian-Affected Populations in Uganda: Fieldwork Strategies and Challenges

• Great Expectations: Expanding the Possibilities for Research in Refugee Settings in the East and Horn of Africa

• Bitke - Uganda’s CryptoSavannah Launches a Refugee Blockchain Identity and Cash Transfer Project in Partnership with CoinBase

• Civil Wars - Resistant Resilience: Agency and Resilience Among Refugees Resisting Humanitarian Corruption in Uganda

• CRRF - 13th Refugee Engagement Forum Meeting Report (12th - 14th April 2022)

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

• Fews-Net - Uganda Food Security Outlook, June 2022 to January 2023

• GoU - Annual Report for Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) 2021

• GoU/Impact/GiZ/ - Evaluation Report of the Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees and its Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF)

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP 2022-23) Performance Dashboard - Quarter 1 2022 - Palorinya; Lobule; Adjumani; Palabek; Kiryandongo; Nakivale; Kyaka II; Oruchinga; Kyangwali; Rwamwanja; Bidi Bidi; Imvepi; Rhino

  • Refugee Statistics June 2022 - Kampala; Palorinya; Lobule; Adjumani; Palabek; Kiryandongo; Nakivale; Kyaka II; Oruchinga; Kyangwali; Rwamwanja; Bidi Bidi; Imvepi; Rhino

  • Refugee Influx Dashboard As of 30 June 22; 7 July 22

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda (30 June 2022)

  • Refugee statistics - June 2022

• IFRC - Uganda, Africa | Population Movement - Emergency Appeal n° MDRUG045 - Operational Strategy

• IGAD - Learning and Experience Sharing between National Refugee Agencies of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.

• International Journal of Social Work - Challenges of Ending the Rwandan Refugee Problem in Uganda; The relationship between the Old Case Loads and New Case Loads - The paper examines the relationship between the two strands (old and new arrivals) of Rwandan refugees living in Nakivale settlement focusing on how these refugees live with the host communities of Ugandan origin living around the settlement and why voluntary repatriation has not been realized

• Journal of Human rights Practice - (pay for content) - Open the Doors: Towards Complete Freedom of Movement for Human Rights Defenders in Exile in Uganda- This article explores the scope and meaning of freedom of movement into, within, and out of Uganda. While Convention Travel Documents, or refugee passports, are provided for under Ugandan and international refugee law, they are elusive in the refugee community and the majority of those interviewed face overwhelming challenges in obtaining one. Women human rights defenders and those who identified as, or advocated for the LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) community, face compounded difficulties when moving within and out of Uganda, including arbitrary restrictions by authorities, violations by private actors, and protection concerns

• LSE - An insider account of lies and corruption within a humanitarian refugee agency in Uganda

• MMC - 4Mi Cities: Data Collection on Urban Mixed Migration – Arua City Report (July 2022); Kampala City report (July 2022)

• Monitor - Financial inclusion critical for safety of refugees

• Oxford University - Urban Refugees and IDPs in Secondary Cities - This report examines the current reality of forcibly displaced people in Arua, Uganda; Adama, Ethiopia; and Kakuma and Lodwar Town, Kenya. It argues that the growing urbanisation of forcibly displaced people has fostered increasing engagement and partnerships for assistance with local urban actors such as municipal governments and local civil society organisations while at the same time highlighting, and in cases exacerbating, the challenges that many municipalities face in terms of funding and a lack of recognition of urban needs.

• Reseachgate- Refugee management: a comparative analysis on the historical background and policy frameworks in Uganda and Canada

• UBC - Refugees make progress under DRDIP project in Lamwo

• Digital Savings Groups for Refugees in Uganda

• UNHCR -

  • Inter-Agency Situation Report - Uganda Refugee Emergency, 1 - 7 July 2022; 8 - 14 July 2022; 24-30 June

  • Operational Update, May 2022

  • Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region - Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (as of 30 June 2022)

  • Status of Transit / Reception Centres and Collection Points in Uganda (Reporting Period: 1 - 7 July 2022; 24-30 June 2022

  • Funding Update -

• UNICEF -

  • Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3 (Mid-Year) January - June 2022

  • Uganda 2022 Mid-Year Humanitarian Situation Dashboard

• U Learn - Digital Savings Groups in Uganda Learning Brief

• UN University - DELTA 8.7 Country Policy Research Workshop on Uganda: Workshop briefing - This paper is a summary of the research needs, best practices and areas in which policy might be better instrumentalized to effectively address human trafficking in the context of refugee and asylum-seeking populations in Uganda. These notes draw upon the workshop discussions as well as the pre-workshop interviews

• USAID - Uganda Resilience Fact Sheet

• WFP - Uganda Country Brief, June 2022

Training, Events etc:

• Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies - Addressing Sexual violence in Conflict Settings & Emergencies - Training dates - 28 Nov 2022 to 2 Dec 2022 DEADLINE - 30 Oct 2022 - The overall objective of this residential course in Uganda is to provide mid-level and senior managers with the knowledge and skills required to conceive a multidisciplinary approach to respond to the complex needs of survivors of sexual violence in conflicts and emergencies. This session has a specific focus on East Africa and is targeted at participants who are based or work in the region.The course is delivered in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins sans Frontières, Refugee Law Project, UNHCR, and independent human rights experts.

Feature

Digital Savings Groups The Digital Savings Group Learning brief offers critical reflections on whether a savings group in the Uganda refugee response is ready to go digital, on the objectives for pursuing digitisation/digitalisation, and on key challenges in making the shift. The DSG Learning Brief - the culmination of a learning review on the issue that included a digital savings group workshop and a digital savings group online fair was developed in collaboration with the Uganda Inter-Agency Cash Working Group (CWG), the Livelihoods and Resilience Sector Working Group (LRSWG), and UNCDF as part of an on-going Financial Inclusion Learning Review series that started with a financial literacy training learning brief followed by a digital financial literacy training learning brief

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