Welcome to the 58th edition of URN covering publications and news from October 2024
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Sector specific:
Education:
All Africa - More Boys Than Girls Access Education in Refugee Settlements
Doing history in Public - History from the edge: teaching global history in a Ugandan refugee settlement
Education Links - Teacher Well-Being Amidst Displacement and Fragility in Uganda and South Sudan
Journal of Agricultural Engineering - Impact of refugee settlements on land degradation in Uganda
MasterCard Foundation - The role of the Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) in shaping solutions
Monitor -
New Vision - Beyond Borders - refugee girls seek education equality
Windle International - From Nakivale Refugee Settlement to New Beginnings
Environment & Energy:
Borgen Project - Solar Power in Uganda Supports Educational Goals
Generation Restoration - (video) - Regenerative Projects in Uganda (with rrefugees & hosts) - visit with Generation Restoration
U-Learn -
Health:
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth - Factors associated with teenage pregnancy among refugees in Palabek refugee settlement, Northern Uganda
CARE - A journey home: a young woman takes on sexual health in refugee settlements in Uganda
The Conversation - Refugees in east Africa suffer from high levels of depression, making it harder to rebuild lives – new study
European Journal of Psychotraumatology - Traumatised youth harbour feelings of revenge: investigating the association between PTSD symptomatology, vengeance, and willingness to forgive among the Congolese adolescent refugees in Uganda
GAVI - Meet the nurse helping newcomers to safety in one of Uganda's largest refugee settlements - According to Daphne Namusoke, the people fleeing conflict in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo aren't truly secure until they are vaccinated.
Makerere University -
Nile Post - Adjumani's New Shs1.8bn ICU Equipped With Medical-Grade Oxygen
Uganda Radio Network - Over 6,800 Battle Mental Health Challenges in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement
UNIPH - Measles outbreak Investigation in Terego District, Uganda, May- June, 2024
Livelihoods & Resilience:
Africa News - Thousands of refugees in Uganda struggle to get by, amid cuts in humanitarian aid
All Africa - Nakivale Refugee Camp Faces Food Crisis After Programme Closure
AP - Uganda struggles to feed more than 1.7 million refugees as international support dwindles
Global Campus Europe - Uganda: a refugee haven? Assessing the “state” of self-reliance
FEWS-Net - Uganda Price Bulletin, September 2024
Food Security - (pay for access) - Is the self-reliance strategy sustainable? Evidence from assistance programmes to refugees in Uganda
IDS - Key Considerations: Food Assistance Prioritisation in Refugee Settlements in Uganda and its Impacts
Lifting Hands International - (video) - Did you know that close to 60% of all refugees in Uganda struggle with food insecurity?
Monitor -
Leaders demand more land for refugee farming in Acholi, West Nile
Govt seeks Shs36.6b to equip refugees with vocational skills
New Vision - Rhino settlement camp refugees trained in rice protection techniques
Nile Post - Improving Food Security And Livelihood in Northern Uganda
NTV - (video)
Refugees in Northern Uganda asked to venture into rice farming
RLRH - Challenges facing RLOs in promoting refugees' livelihoods
SSHAP - Key considerations: Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in
Protection:
BMC Public Health - Gender-based violence and its determinants among refugees and internally displaced women in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis
Monitor - Refugee girls in Uganda face unique threats – Amongi
NTV - (video) - New report highlights rising violence, teenage pregnancies among refugee girls
UNICEF - Raising an umbrella of protection for refugee children - A collaborative system-strengthening approach to build a strong and sustainable canopy of protection for children in refugee settlements in western Uganda.
WASH
Environmental Science & Technology - Evaluation of the Safe Water Optimization Tool to Provide Evidence-Based Chlorination Targets in Surface Waters: Lessons from a Refugee Setting in Uganda
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development - Challenges associated with access to safe water in Rhino Camp refugee settlement in Arua District, Uganda
Other:
Africa news - Thousands of refugees in Uganda struggle to get by, amid cuts in humanitarian aid
Christian Science Monitor - How a Sudanese refugee in Uganda is keeping his homeland alive through food
Democracy in Africa - Uganda’s refugee management “transition” and the country’s paradoxical relations with the international community
Devi Discourse - Uganda’s Refugee Model: A Beacon of Hope Amid Rising Challenges - The ongoing crises in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have intensified the flow of people seeking refuge in Uganda.
Emerald Insight - (pay for access) - Housing and social sustainability in Uganda; case of Pagirinya Refugee Settlement in Adjumani district
FRC - Petronille Mukandora is the Refugee Woman of the Year 2024 in Uganda
GoU/UNHCR -
IIED - Driving change for Kampala’s urban refugee population
International Research Journal Publishers - Political factors affecting security in Bidi Bidi settlement camp in North-Western Uganda
Makerere University - Secondary Traumatic Stress, depression and job performance: The moderating role of perceived supervisory support among humanitarian workers in the Northern section of refugee management in Uganda
Migration Research Hub - Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda
NL Times - Dutch government is considering plan to send rejected asylum seekers to Uganda
NTV - (video) - UN refugee chief urges Uganda to ensure transparency in fund management for future support
Sudan Tribune - More than 55,000 Sudanese refugees have fled to Uganda
REACH - map of Dzaipi Sub-County: Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement Map - 2nd October 2024
Reuters - Netherlands explores plan to send rejected African asylum seekers to Uganda
RNS - Church-linked groups are helping South Sudanese refugees live like locals in Uganda
Uganda Radio Network - UNHCR Chief Advocates for Refugee Self-Reliance Amid Dwindling Funding
U-Learn -
UNICEF -
Empowering refugee youth through the PROSPECTS Partnership - PROSPECTS Partnership in Uganda shows how education and skilling, economic inclusion and protection empowers refugee youth
Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report No. 4: July to August 2024
UNHCR -
Feedback, Referral, and Resolution Mechanism (FRRM), September 2024 Newsletter
An overview on the progress of mapping of RLOs in the EHAGL region - 3 October 2024
UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for global support as more people flee to Uganda
Sudan Situation Map Weekly Regional Update
Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes - IGAD Region
UNV - Using sport as a means to include young refugees in Uganda
US Embassy - United States Announces $7.5 Million in Humanitarian Assistance to Help Uganda Host Sudanese Refugees
WE Forum - 'Trek for Hope to the Guardian Land'
WFP -
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