Welcome to Edition 30
Another month has sped past and many of you are probably heading for summer vacations - so wishing you well. In anticipation that you may miss one or two of these newsletters, I wanted to remind you not to panic (!) as all the previous newsletters are on the URN website. On that note, there have been exciting developments on the website, the newsletter has now been broken down into sector pages. There is a new page - Resources by Sector - and a drop down from the main menu. Here you will find the newsletter content of all the newsletters in retrospective date order by the different sectors - Education, Environment, Health, Livelihoods and Resilience, Protection, WASH. Not all are ready yet, as its a time intensive exercise to get the history uploaded but once that's done it will be updated every month, so if you're interested in looking for reports and publications on a particular sector, you can just cut to the chase. As always, submissions are extremely welcome – please send to Ugandrefugeenews@gmail.com and wherever possible, they will be included in the next version. To sign up - please click here
Sector specific:
Education:
Harvard Library - Language for an unknowable future: How language ideologies and pedagogies shape the lives of refugee children - this research examines how language-in-education policies and practices—and particularly those privileging English—influence refugee children’s relationships to school, self, and home, and the ways their experiences of language at school may differ from those imagined by education authorities.
Techno - TECNO expands partnership with UNHCR to support higher education in Africa for refugees - now supporting refugee scholars in Africa to complete four-year higher education and providing internship opportunities at its branches or subsidiaries in Africa for refugee students if the national policy allows and their qualifications match the positions.
Environment
World Journal of Advanced Research and Review - Factors influencing deforestation in Rwamwanja refugee settlement camp, Kamwenge district, Uganda
Livelihoods
Vision Fund - From refugee to employer: Geofrey's story
Health:
AVSI/IOM/IIRC/LWF/MTI/SCI/URC/UNCF/UNHCR/UNFP/WFP/WHO - Joint Monitoring Report in Refugee Hosting Districts, October 2021 - provides an analysis of the health sector performance in respect to refugee health focusing on quality of serviced delivery, level of integration of refugee health in the public health system, access to essential health care by host communities, challenges and mitigation measures to address them.
Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research - Addressing the State of Mental Health in South Sudanese refugees across Uganda
Current Developments in Nutrition -
PLOS Medical - Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 on refugee health
Protection
UN Women - video - Advancing women's leadership, empowerment, access and protection in Uganda's refugee response - This video documentary highlights the key successes of LEAP Phase one which was implemented in 2017 –2021 in Yumbe and Adjumani districts and highlights the focus of Phase II 2021-2025.
Other:
NEW - Media and Communications - Urban Refugees’ Digital Experiences and Social Connections During Covid-19 Response in Kampala, Uganda
Africa Review - (pay for access) - Empowering South Sudan Refugee Women and Girls in Uganda - This article is a preliminary critical assessment of Uganda’s current refugee policy, ReHOPE, in the north-western part of the country. The data from this study seems to indicate that the goals of refugee female empowerment and improved livelihoods are not being widely realised in the two Adjumani settlements accessed.
Bristol University Press - Refugees self-reliance development - A critical history
Chase Africa - Supporting refugee and host communities in Uganda to thrive - provides host and refugee communities in zone one of Bidi Bidi with education and improved access to family planning services and healthcare. We are also addressing the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change by promoting climate smart agriculture. The project contributes to environmental conservation through tree planting and the use of clean energy, such as energy saving cookstoves.
DRC -
ECHO - Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda - New displacements
Fews-Net -
GoU/UNHCR -
New arrivals dashboard - 9 June 2022 16 June 2022
Refugee Statistics May 2022 - Rwamwanja; Palorinya, Rhino, Palabek; Oruchinga; Kiryandongo; Bidi Bidi; Lobule; Adjumani; Kyangwali; Kyaka II; Kampala; Nakivale; Imvepi
International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care - The importance of adopting an intersectionality approach to refugee status determination procedures: lessons from Greece, Israel and Uganda
NorthWestern University - Understanding Refugees’ Political Knowledge: A Study of Urban Refugees in Uganda
OAD - Project Aims to Preserve Cultural Astronomy of Refugees in Uganda - The aim of this project is to gather indigenous cultural astronomy, such as local names of celestial bodies and their meanings in day to day lives, from the people at the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda. The project will catalogue and provide a formal structure for storing and sharing this knowledge. And it will also facilitate the introduction of astronomy in the camps. Data gathered from this project will be incorporated in a mobile astronomy lab for replication in other regions of Uganda.
Uganda Refugee Network - U.S Rolls Out Project to Fight Corruption in Refugee Response
UNHCR -
Inter-Agency Situation Report - Uganda Refugee Emergency, 20-26 May 2022; 27 May - 3 June 2022; 4 - 9 June 2022; 10-16 June 2022; 17 - 23 June 2022
Status of Transit / Reception Centres and Collection Points in Uganda Reporting Period: 27 May - 02 June 2022); 2 June 2022 ; 16 June 2022
WFP - Uganda Country Brief, April 2022; May 2022
Training, Funding opportunities, Events etc:
Pro Bono Legal Support - Forced Displacement Legal Help - a service that matches the unmet legal needs of refugees and other forcibly displaced people, as well as the organizations that work with them. Upon receipt of the completed form, PILnet will contact you to discuss your legal needs in further detail and to help you prepare a request for pro bono legal assistance. All information provided will be kept confidential and will only be shared with your approval.
Unlocking Humanitarian Access - Humanitarian Practices & Accountability - Account set up required - Throughout this free online course, you will find yourself immersed in challenging humanitarian situations. The course follows a scenario-based learning approach to help you develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes to address access constraints. Learn important tools and processes to promote safe, sustainable, and quality humanitarian access. This course was developed and generously donated by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
UNHCR - Refugee-led Innovation Fund -Championing the creativity of all displaced people - open for applications between June 17 to July 17 - The Fund provides a holistic support mechanism combining financial resources, mentoring and other expertise directly to organisations led by people who experience forced displacement. This will enable them to design new interventions which will have a lasting positive impact on their communities. The Fund supports innovation by all organisations led by people who experience forced displacement, including refugees, asylum-seekers, the internally displaced, returnees and stateless people. Selected organisations can expect the following support:
Financial support to test and grow ideas: up to USD $50,000
Programme and project management support:
Technical support, expertise and coaching:
Peer-to-Peer support: .
Other support based on each project need:.
Feature
Response Innovation Lab
The Response Innovation Lab (RIL) is a global humanitarian collaboration that creates public goods to support learning and innovation. In Uganda, RIL is hosted by Save the Children. If you are a humanitarian organisation planning an innovation intervention to support people affected by crises, if you are an innovator looking for support for your work in the humanitarian space, or if you wish to understand more about the work of RIL, you can book an individual meeting with the team here.