As this is the last URN to arrive in your inboxes in 2022, I wanted to take the opportunity to wish you Happy Holidays and thank you all for your continued support and engagement with URN. I'd also like to thank you for your ongoing efforts to support and improve the situation for refugees in Uganda. Together we can - and are - making a positive impact. A reminder that submissions are always welcome and can be shared, for inclusion in subsequent newsletters, via our email - ugandarefugeenews@gmail.com Last, please share the love and send the newsletter onto anyone you think might be interested - they can subscribe using the bar below. The more the merrier!
Sector specific:
Education:
ELRHA - Research snapshot - Child friendly spaces: understanding effective implementation - This randomised controlled trial compared the effectiveness of two approaches to implementing Child Friendly Spaces in the West Nile refugee response, finding strong evidence that both approaches can have immediate as well as longer-term psychosocial benefits for younger children and adolescents. However, they had limited impact on strengthening community capacities for child protection and MHPSS.
Simbi Foundation - The Impact of EduTech in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement’s Schools
Environment:
The Humanitarian Innovation Programme - Sustainable and affordable energy solutions for refugees in Uganda
Health:
Illinois News Bureau - Refugee teens in Uganda who 'sext' more likely to use condoms, studies find
IPC
Livelihoods:
Lemon Tree - (podcast) - art27’s Resounding Podcast: Putting Down Roots - Jennie Spears, joins the founder of Uganda-based Rwamwanja Rural Foundation, Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe, to chat about the benefits of gardening and growing food.
Monitor - Refugees cash in on group farming
Protection
WASH
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development - Water insecurity and sexual and gender-based violence among refugee youth: qualitative insights from a humanitarian setting in Uganda
Other:
FINCA International - (video) - Crafting Digital Savings for Women: Lessons from an Experimental Study in Uganda
GoU/UNHCR
Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Dashboard - Quarter 3, July - September 2022 - Cash-Based Interventions; Food Security; Shelter and Settlement
Refugee Statistics October 2022 - Adjumani
MMC - The Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees: Inclusive Climate Action is supporting ten city-led interventions in Africa with grants of up to $200,000 USD over 12 mths. In May 2022, the Fund announced grants for the city governments of Accra, Ghana; Arua, Uganda; Beira, Mozambique; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Monrovia, Libera. Arua will create employment opportunities for migrants and refugees in Uganda’s first municipal recycling program, while introducing environmentally sustainable practices and curricula in schools, health centers, and other public institutions.
NTV - (video) - A look at the lives of Eritreans living in Uganda
Robert Bosch Stifung - Refugee-Led Organisations in East Africa - Community Perceptions in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania
UNHCR -
Uganda’s refugee response confronted by dire funding gap - This is a summary of what was said by Joung-ah Ghedini-Williams, UNHCR’s Head of Global Communications – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative - Over 1,500 Participate in WPDI Community Dialogues at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda
YouTube - The Digital CARE Package - (video) - CARE’s VSLA Digital CARE Package is designed to overcome this, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to take full advantage of the digital economy. This session will address some of the key challenges that are faced by participants of NGO programs. What steps are different actors taking to close the digital divide, and what else can be done to make programs more effective?
Events, Funding etc
Disaster Ready - (log in required) - Gender-based Violence and Child Protection Case Management Steps online course - This free online course introduces humanitarian case management staff to key processes for ensuring decisions and actions are responsive to the unique needs of a survivor, and aim to prevent future harm and reduce risk. Learn international standards and UNHCR’s “Best Interests Procedure” to deliver quality case management services for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection (CP). This course was generously donated by UNHCR and is available in English, French, and Spanish.
DSG Hub - December 15th - Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion. Global Communities will open this highly interactive event by introducing the new and improved DSG Vendor and Products tool on the DSG Hub and eight DSG vendors will briefly present their digital solutions for savings groups and invite you to visit their virtual booths where you will be able to explore tools to accelerate safe, inclusive and sustainable digitization of savings groups. Register here.
GSMA - The GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action - will back solutions that leverage mobile digital technology, anticipate potential humanitarian impacts and enable effective early response. The GSMA is open to applications from non-profit organisations (including NGOs, INGOs, humanitarian agencies and social enterprises) as well as for-profit organisations (limited to commercially viable start-ups, SMEs and social enterprises with up to 250 employees). Successful projects will receive a grant of between £100-250,000 to scale their innovation over a 15 -18mths. DEADLINE: 19th January 2023