Uganda Refugee News - November 2025

Sector specific:

EDUCATION

• Africa Studies Centre Leiden - ‘Why do they call us refugees?’ A label that erases girls’ stories in Ugandan classrooms

• EduResearch Matters - For refugees, the right to learn is uneven. Here’s how to change

• FCA - Refugee students from Uganda arrive in Italy to pursue higher education

• Internet Society - Bridging the Digital Divide: 135 Refugees and Hosts Graduate in Network Design and Deployment in Rhino Refugee Settlement

• Makerere University - Interrogating the right to education for urban refugee children : a case study of Kisenyi-Kampala

HEALTH

• BMC Psychiatry - Examining suicidality and associated risk factors among refugee children and adolescents in Uganda

• Copenhagen University - Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Uganda Refugee Response

    • Suicide Tracking Dashboard October 2025

    • Suicide Tracking Dashboard September 2025

    • Underfunded Indicator Tracking - Quarterly Dashboard - Health and Nutrition

• International Journal of Health Geographics - Assessment of a gridded population sample frame for a household survey of refugee populations in Uganda, 2021

• Makerere University - Microbial contamination of silver cyprinid (rastrineobola argentea) sold at Okubani market, Bidibidi refugee settlement, Yumbe District, Uganda

• MedRxiv - Assessing Health Facility Capacity for Neglected Tropical Diseases in a Refugee Settlement in Uganda

• MTI - A Life-Saving Wrap: How a Simple Garment is Changing Maternal Health in Uganda’s Refugee Settlements

• PML - Ceasor and Joel – the peer educators driving SRHR access in refugee communities

• Stromme Foundation - (video) - How Stromme Foundation has improved education for refugees and girls

• Solferino Academy - Championing Local Innovation: Debunking Blood Donation Myths in Uganda’s Refugee Settlements

• UNHCR -

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response (UCRRP): Underfunded Indicator Tracking - Quarterly Dashboard - Health and Nutrition

  • UNHCR Uganda - Health Integration Cost Plan - 2025

LIVELIHOODS & RESILIENCE

• African Business - How a shift of viewpoint can see refugees as assets and innovators

• AVSI - Uganda. How to graduate your way out of poverty.

• Chimp Report - Uganda, France Push for Shift from Humanitarian Aid to Refugee Self-Reliance

• GoU - Uganda self-reliance index (UG-SRI for refugees and host-communities (November 2025)

  • Full report

  • User guide

• GoU/UNHCR - Refugee Statistics October 2025 - PSN Dashboard

• ILO - Adapting on the edge: Accelerating climate resilience through market systems development in fragility and displacement context

• Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies - “It Has Been a Breath of Fresh Air” Participants’ Perception of the Impact of Self-Reliance Intervention Among Urban Refugees

• Makerere University - Food security and associated factors among urban refugee households: A case study of refugees in Makindye Division, Kampala-Uganda

• MasterCard Foundation - Bridge From Secondary Education And Skills Development To Job Opportunities For Refugee And Host Community Youth In Uganda

• Nile Post -

  • Adjumani Youth, Refugees Urged to Use Vocational Training to Build Livelihoods

  • 30 Village Savings Groups Commissioned in Adjumani

  • ADRA’s REAL Project Transforms Lives in Kyaka II and Rwamwanja Refugee Settlements

• NPR - They were promised a lifeline to 'graduate' from poverty. Then it was taken away 

PROTECTION

• Aids and Behavior - Associations Between Forced Sexual Initiation, Post-exposure Prophylaxis Cascades and Subsequent Violence Experiences Among Displaced Young Women in Ugandan Informal Urban Settlements

• Makerere University - Appraising access to justice for refugee women survivors of SGBV in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement

• Monitor - How training has helped refugee women to speak up

• Nile Post -

  • Sexual Gender-Based Violence Escalates in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement

  • Refugee Women in Uganda Lead Quiet Revolution Against Gender-Based Violence

  • Police Officers Trained to Strengthen Response to GBV and Child Abuse in Refugee Settlements

• NTV Uganda - (video) - Social Workers in Kyangwali Refugee Camp report rising rape cases

• Phys.org - Many displaced girls in Uganda trapped in cycles of sexual, physical violence

• Uganda Police Force - Police, IDLO Sensitize Refugees on GBV and Child Protection in Madi Okollo

WASH

• Brigidt Water Foundation - Sooba Primary School, Kyaka II Refugee settlement, Uganda. August 2025

• The Independent - New solar-hybrid water systems bring relief to 165,000 refugees in Kiryandongo settlement

• Nigerian Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene- Emergency Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (wash) Management in the Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

• Nile Post - Unicef-Supported Sanitation Programme Transforms Lives in Kamwenge’s Refugee Communities

• Uganda Radio Network - Refugees in Kiryandongo Celebrate Easier Access to Clean

• UNICEF -

  • New solar-hybrid water systems bring relief to 165,000 refugees in Kiryandongo settlement - European Union and UNICEF partnership delivers sustainable water access, ending daily three-kilometre treks for refugees

  • UNICEF-supported programme transforms living standards for refugees and host communities in Kamwenge - How a market-based approach is delivering durable toilets, safe water and healthier futures in Uganda’s refugee-hosting district

Other:

• African Journal of Strategy, Defence and Security Studies - Negotiating the Safety of Strangers in Protracted Crisis Spaces: A Human Rights Perspective

• African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences - Customary Land Acquisition and Tenure Security in Refugee-Host Communities: An Impact Assessment

• Carbon Pulse - UN Refugee Agency targets $30 mln to pilot carbon credit projects at Uganda, Rwanda camps

• Children and Adolescent Social Work Journal - Ubuntu in Exile: Indigenous Notions of Community and Social Justice among Adolescent Refugees in Northern Uganda

• Cogent Social Sciences - Navigating forced migration in the Horn of Africa: a systematic review of IGAD’s strategic challenges and opportunities

• Eastleigh Voice - Uganda stops granting refugee status to nationals from Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea

• Education and Conflict Review - Policymakers’ perceptions of Uganda’s progressive approach to refugee education

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Population Dashboard

    • Annex 1 - Refugee Statistics October 2025 - Active Population by Settlement

    • Annex II - Refugee Statistics Map October 2025

    • Annex III - Refugee Statistics October 2025 - Settlement Profiles

    • Annex VI - Refugee Statistics October 2025 - PSN Dashboard

  • Overview of Refugee and Asylum Seekers - Refugee Statistics October 2025

  • Refugee Arrival Movement Monitoring Dashboard - as of 27/11/2025

  • Impact of Underfunding Indicators Tracking Matrix - Uganda - Q3 2025

  • Uganda Operation - Weekly Critical Indicator Tracking Matrix -

    • 20 November 2025

    • 13 November 2025

    • 06 November 2025

    • 30 October 2025

• International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science - Investigating the Effectiveness of Voluntary Repatriation, Third-Country Resettlement, and Local Integration as Durable Solutions for Refugeehood

• IoM -

  • DTM Uganda Flow Monitoring Registry - Cross Border Movements, Report #3 (1 - 30 September 2025)

  • DTM Emergency Event Tracking (EET), (August - October 2025) (Published: 1 November 2025)

• The Journal of Development Studies - Risk-Taking, Risk-Making: How Uncertainty Shapes Refugee-Led Organisations’ Engagement with International Agencies

• Monitor -

  • Japan steps in for Uganda’s refugee funding crisis as foreign aid declines

  • Experts push for local empowerment in refugee response

  • Refugee women struggle to break leadership barriers in Yumbe

  • Why Uganda’s refugee response demands a new development plan

  • Uganda stops granting refugee status to Ethiopians, Somali, Eritreans

  • Shrinking donor support threatens Uganda's refugee response, WFP warns

• MyJoyOnline - Sudanese refugee women abroad between the fires of war and the hardship of treatment

• Nile Post -

  • FSD Uganda Marks 10 Years of Driving Financial Inclusion

  • WFP Launches Strategy to Strengthen Local Food Systems and Boost Refugee Resilience

  • West Nile Leaders Laud Development Partners for Sustained Support Amid Funding Decline

• NTV -

  • (video) - Denmark grants Uganda $2.3 million to strengthen refugee response efforts

  • (video) - China pledges USD 1.1 million to support Uganda’s refugee response

  • NUP’s Kyagulanyi faults gov’t over land compensation in Yumbe

  • (video) - Minister calls for solutions as Uganda hits two million refugees

• ODI - How to finance refugee leadership: navigating a humanitarian system at breaking point

• Olympics - Twelve Refugee Athletes in Uganda selected to chase Youth Olympic dreams at Dakar 2026

• Oxfam - From the fringes to the forefront: Refugee leadership within Uganda’s humanitarian coordination mechanisms

• PeaceWind International - Working with locals to improve living conditions in refugee camps in Uganda

• Refugee International - Forced Migration Review: Climate Change: Choices for Displaced People

• SINO - (video) - Twero Innovation Academy - SINA in the Palabek Refugee Settlement, Uganda

• The Standard - Uganda’s quiet model to peaceful co-existence

• Springer - Beyond Principles? A Critical Look at UNHCR’s Organisational Culture - The Limits of Accountability

• Sudan Tribune - Disabled Sudanese refugees in Uganda camps face aid vacuum, advocates say

• UNHCR -

  • Uganda Country Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP) Hyper Prioritization 2025

  • Results Monitoring Surveys 2024 Uganda: The results from host communities and refugees and asylum seekers

  • Uganda Refugee Response

    • Conflict Mapping Dashboard September 2025

    • Conflict Mapping Dashboard October 2025

  • South Sudan Situation:

    • UNHCR External Update #5 (October 2025)

    • Core 02 Nov 2025

  • Sudan Situation

    • Map Weekly Regional Update -

      • 24 Nov 2025

      • 17 Nov 2025

      • 10 Nov 2025

      • 03 Nov 2025

  • UNHCR EHAGL Region Gender Equality Promising Practices 2024

  • Regional Bureau for Eastern and Southern Africa

    • IGAD Region | Population of concern to UNHCR (as of 31 October 2025)

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by situation - 31 October 2025

    • Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in the IGAD region - 31 October 2025

• University of the National Education Commission, Krakow - Cultural kaleidoscope: challenges and opportunities for the local integration of refugees in Uganda

• WFP -

  • Denmark contributes to WFP to support newly arrived refugees in Uganda with food assistance

  • Republic of Korea provides lifesaving food assistance to 800,000 refugees and school children in Uganda

  • France provides crucial funds to WFP to support refugees and improve nutrition for women and children in Uganda

  • WFP Launches Strategy to Enhance Food Systems and Resilience

• Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative - Uganda Programs - Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement

• World Athletics - U18 athlete refugee team members selected as programme expands to Uganda