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Uganda Refugee News

Uganda Refugee News - May 2021

Updated: Jun 29, 2022


Welcome to Edition 17

Health, is once again the lead in terms of research and news, but maybe of interest, is the SOAS journal on displacement in Africa - a whole journal, all open access, dealing with displacement issues across the continent.


A break from the norm also includes three funding opportunities - two with short deadlines (June 16) and one July 31. Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the newsletter for more information.


Submissions are extremely welcome – please send to Ugandrefugeenews@gmail.com and wherever possible, they will be included in the next version.


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Sector specific:

Education:

Environment

  • Cookstove implementation and Education for Sustainable Development: A review of the field and proposed research agenda - This paper argues that youth, current and future users of cookstoves, are systematically overlooked at all points along the cookstove value chain, and that their continued exclusion from implementation efforts is to the detriment of cookstove research an practice. It calls for their purposeful inclusion in development efforts through collaborations with Education for Sustainable Development providers whose work is complementary to the cookstove and sustainable development communities’ aims and aspirations.

Health:

Livelihoods

Protection

Other:

Training, Events, Funding etc:

  • Funding:

    • Embassy of Japan - deadline July 31 - Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects - Any projects geared towards grassroots assistance re Primary/secondary education, Vocational training, Primary health care, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, Water and sanitation, Reconstruction for disaster areas and/or Agricultural development are eligible for financing, however particular attention will be given to projects designed to assist the most vulnerable groups such as women, children and the physically disabled. The grant amount per project is generally under 10 million yen (Approximately US$100,000 depending on exchange rates).

    • MIT Solve community - deadline June 16 - At least $10,000 is awarded to every selected team

      • Digital Inclusion - is looking for technology-based solutions that provide low-income, remote, and refugee communities access to digital infrastructure and safe, affordable internet; equip everyone, regardless of age, gender, education, location, or ability, with culturally relevant digital literacy skills to enable participation in the digital economy and/or scale safe and private digital identity and financial tools to allow people and small businesses to thrive in the digital economy.

      • Equitable Classroom - is looking for technology-based solutions that ensure all primary and secondary school learners have access to quality, safe, and equitable learning environments by increasing the engagement of learners in remote, hybrid, and physical environments, including strategies and tools for parental support, peer interaction, and guided independent work; enabling access to quality learning experiences in low-connectivity settings—including imaginative play, collaborative projects, and hands-on experiments; ensuring the physical safety and mental health of learners—for example, through tools for crisis support, reporting violence, and mitigating cyber bullying and/or supporting teachers to adapt their pedagogy, facilitate personalized instruction, and communicate with students and their families in remote and hybrid setting

  • Event - 2nd National Workshop on Validating the National Action Plan for Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Uganda - 15-17 June 2021 - The main goal of the National Action Plan is ‘to strengthen entrepreneurship in refugee hosting districts through improved inclusiveness of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Uganda’. A three-day workshop is being organized to validate the various components of the National Action Plan.

  • Training - Windle International Uganda (WIU) and UNHCR invites applications for sponsorship for Undergraduate/TVET Courses in accredited universities in Uganda. Deadline7 June . Applicants must be a registered refugee in Uganda, hold a UACE certificate with at least two principle passes or its equivalent and be below 35 years. All Applications MUST be submitted online, you can access the application form on this link https://forms.gle/GLkRFXmnwQBH2oNu6

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