Uganda Refugee News - May 2023

Sector specific: Education:

• Chimp Reports - Uganda launches Shd 1.6 tn education response plan for refugees

• Education cannot wait - Education Cannot Wait Announces US$4.1 Million First Emergency Response Grant in Uganda: Total ECW Funding in Uganda Tops US$76 Million

• FCA - FCA’s LEARN project is improving access to quality education in Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Term 1, 2023

• Malteser International - Environmentally friendly school inaugurated in the Rhino refugee camp in Northern Uganda

• Ministry of Education and Sport - Uganda Skills Development in Refugee and Host Communities (USDRH) Project, P176263 - ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP)

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

• Windle Trust - Accelerated Education Program is Transforming Lives of Refugees and Host Community Learners
  

Environment & Energy:

• Gou/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Environment and Energy Dashboard - Term 1, 2023

• IoM - Uganda’s Largest Refugee Settlement Adopts Electronic Waste Management

• Nature - Indexing climatic and environmental exposure of refugee camps with a case study in East Africa

Health:

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth- Determinants of male involvement in antenatal care at Palabek Refugee Settlement, Lamwo district, Northern Uganda

• Council for International Development - Malnutrition skyrocketing in Uganda refugee settlements

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Health & Nutrition Dashboard - Quarter 1, January - March 2023

• ICRW - The SRHR Needs and Challenges of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Humanitarian Settings in Nigeria and Uganda: A Quantitative Report

• IRC - IRC warns of alarming increase in acute malnutrition cases in Uganda’s refugee settlements

Livelihoods & Resilience

• Artefact Magazine - The refugee who beat all the odds and became self-sufficient in Uganda

• AVSI - Presentation - AVSI: Graduation Approach – Learning and adapting towards resilience: lessons from Uganda - 4 May 2023

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Livelihoods & Resilience Dashboard - Quarter 1, January - March 2023

• Instilglio - Presentation - INSTILGLIO: Results-Based Financing and poverty graduation - 4 May 2023

• Livelihood and Resilience Sector Working Group -
  

  • Livelihood & Resilience Sector Strategy - UGANDA 2022-2025

  • Minutes of the Livelihood and Resilience Sector Working Group Meeting

  • PPT_ Monthly Meeting - GRT Prep_05.04.23

  • GRF Workstreams Prep Notes - April 2023

  • GRF 2023 Preparation for the Roundtable on Livelihoods

• Mercy Corps - DREAMS Model Recognized as World Changing Idea by Fast Company

• Rotary Down Under - New Journey for Refugees in Uganda

• Philanthropy News Digest - IKEA Foundation commits $10 million to study refugee work programs

• U-Learn - Agricultural Value Chains Strategic Positioning Paper
  

Protection

• IGoU/UNHCR -

  • Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023 - Quarter 1, January - March 2023; Protection Dashboard; Child Protection Dashboard; Gender-Based Violence

  • Uganda Refugee Response: Analysis of Suicide Incidents broken down by age and sex (April 2023)

WASH

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, WASH Dashboard - Quarter 1, January - March 2023

• Red Cross - Social protection and WASH can achieve common goals

Other

• New - From a Humanitarian to Development Approach - Uganda's Ground-Breaking Journey to Achieve Sustainable Provision of Water Services to Refugees and Host Communities

• Center for Global Development - Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees in Uganda

• The East African - The war strategy: Why most East African refugees are hosted near borders

• EAC/IGAD/IoM - The State of Migration in East and Horn of Africa Report 2022

• Fews-net -

  • Uganda Acute Food Insecurity - June - September 2023 projected outcomes

  • Uganda Price Bulletin, April 2023

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Analysis of Suicide Incidents broken down by age and sex (April 2023)

  • Refugee Statistics April 2023 - Settlement & Urban Profiles

  • Population Dashboard (as of April 2023)

  • Refugees & Asylum Seekers as of 30 April 2023

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

  • Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 -2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2023 - Shelter and Settlement Dashboard; Food Security Dashboard; CBI Dashboard

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP 2022-23) Performance Dashboard - Quarter 1 2023 - Rwamwanja; Nakivale; Adjumani; Kyaka II; Oruchinga; Kyangwali

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response End of Year Inter-Sector Dashboard 2022

• ICRC - Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi: Facts & Figures, January - December 2022

• The Monitor -

  • UNHCR hands over inpatient ward to refugee transit camp

  • Low funding puts strain on the Ugandan refugee model

• New Vision - Low funding puts strain on Ugandan refugee model

• Social Science Research Council - Celebrating Every Effort to Build Peaceful Societies: The Experience of Two Peace Clubs in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Yumbe District, Uganda

• The Observer - Forged records in refugee office cast doubt on validity of claims

• U-Learn -

  • Localising Humanitarian Action – Case Studies from Uganda, Kenya, the Philippines, and India

  • Settlement Level Actor Mapping (SLAM) – User guide

• UNHCR -

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP) 2022-2023 - Q1 2023 Funding Update

  • 2022 South Sudan Regional RRP: Regional Overview of the South Sudanese refugee population as of 31 March 2023

  • Uganda Refugee Response: RRP Funding Dashboard Q1 2023

  • Uganda Operational Achievements 2022

  • East and Horn Africa and Great lakes Region - Operational Update January - March 2023

  • Regional Bureau for East, Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes -

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (as of 31 March 2023)

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (as of 30 April 2023)

    • Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region (as of 30 April 2023)

  • Burundi Situation: Population Dashboard - 31 March 2023

  • Somalia Situation: Population Dashboard - 31 March 2023

  • South Sudan Situation: Population Dashboard - 31 March 2023

• UNICEF - Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2: 30 April 2023

• WFP -

  • Uganda Country Brief, April 2023

  • Direct and Indirect Benefits of Food and Cash Assistance in Uganda, May 2023

FEATURE

The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion

Buzzwords play an important role in setting up the scope and direction of aid policies. Alongside the growing focus on development-led approaches in the international refugee regime, three buzzwords – self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion – have achieved particular prominence in recent refugee policy-making. Drawing upon a review of policy documents and multi-sited empirical research in Sub-Saharan Africa, this article gives a detailed analysis of how these buzzwords intersect with one another and elucidates the roles they play in shaping development-oriented approaches to refugees. While this trifecta is painted with positive connotations, empirical research shows that developmental approaches underpinned by these buzzwords can have detrimental effects on both refugees and hosts.