Uganda Refugee news - October 2025

Sector specific:

EDUCATION

• Chimp Reports - RELON Uganda Reinstates 52 Teachers Affected by Funding Cuts

• International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies - The intersection of gender, higher education, and governance in refugee societies: A case study of West Nile, Uganda

• Learning, Media and Technology - Minimal computing in refugee education in Uganda: economies of digital use and non-use, and the right constraints

• Monitor -

  • Education offers hope to Adjumani refugee mothers

  • Digital skilling powering our future

• New Vision - 4000 refugee children enrolled on school feeding programme

• Nile Post - Yumbe District Council Endorses Community-Driven Strategy to Keep Girls in School

• Plan and GoUse Tech - (video) - Plan International Uganda & Go UseTech: Empowering Refugee Youth in Digital Marketing

• UNICEF - Lessons from the Field: Transforming Teaching with the Superstar Teacher Toolbox - From Kyangwali in Uganda to Kakuma-Kalobeyei in Kenya the UNICEF Superstar Teacher Toolbox is equipping refugee-settlement teachers.

• University of Edinburgh - Minimal computing in refugee education in Uganda: Economies of digital use and non-use, and the right constraints

HEALTH

• BMC Psychiatry - Barriers and facilitators to mental health service utilisation among refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda: a qualitative study

• BMC Public Health -

  • Community-based maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response: a comparative case study of implementation realities from humanitarian contexts

  • Global epidemiology of diarrhea among internally displaced populations and refugee camp populations an evidence-based systematic review and meta-analysis

• Contraception and Reproductive Health - Attitudes and beliefs towards contraception and future intention to use a method among women in refugee settlements in 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

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

• Mindfulness - Nonrandomized Open Trial of a Mindfulness- and Compassion-Based Selective Preventive Mobile Health Intervention for Forcibly Displaced People

• Monitor -

  • Language barriers hinder refugee access to sexual, reproductive health services in Uganda

  • How Adjumani school is tackling menstrual poverty

• Research Square - Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Bacterial Fecal E. Coli Isolated From Patients Presenting With Bacterial Diarrhea in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda

• Social Science & Medicine - Integrating healthcare financing for refugees into national health systems: findings from a rapid review of the literature

• You Tube - Uganda Refugee Camp Medical Clinic: October 2025

LIVELIHOODS & RESILIENCE

• Bristol University -  How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda

• Cohere - The Tailors of Kasisa

• Generation Restoration - (video) - Biochar Production with UNIDOS and Generation Restoration in Nakivale Refugee Settlement

• IPA - Improving Labor Market Opportunities for Refugees in Uganda

• LTM Uganda - Urgent Food Shortages Threaten Lives

• Maastricht University - Bridging Profitability and Sustainability: Essays on Private Sector Innovation for Sustainable - Development in Low-Income Contexts. Chapter 4 examines blended-finance mechanisms for refugee-led microenterprises in Kenya and Uganda, developing the Blended Finance Enablement Pyramid to assess how financial guarantees, coupled with technical assistance and conducive policies, can recalibrate risk–reward calculations for lenders

• Monitor - How small gardens are transforming refugee livelihoods in Kiryandongo

• MUST - MUST and University of Antwerp Strengthen Research & Community Resilience Through the EMPURECO Project

• New Vision -

  • Block farming project opens 478 acres of farmland for refugees in Bidi Bidi

  • Humanitarian assistance will enhance refugee children's nutrition

• Open Democracy -

  • The search for self-reliance: refugees and the informal working poor - Refugees deserve work that matches their skills and ambitions – yet too often job programmes are merely an exit strategy for aid

  • Disposable yet indispensable: refugees in the global economy - Labour markets and refugees are increasingly dependent on each other, but the markets always have the upper hand

  • Exploitation embedded in the business model of refugee support - ‘Empowerment’ models let refugees into labour markets, but they also remove safety nets and invite exploitation

• SIMN - Empowering Refugee Mothers Through Tailoring: Scalabrinian Mission in Uganda

• UNHCR - Self-reliance and financial inclusion: Bridging policy and private sector solutions – highlights from UNHCR ExCom Side Event

• UNHCR/Mastercard - Jobs and Employment for Forcibly Displaced Communities in the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region

• World Voices Project -

  • Livelihood and Skills Development Support Program (LSDSP)

  • Humanitarian and Emergency Response Program (HERP) 

PROTECTION

•  Farmamundi - (video) -

  • Spotlight Session and Closure | Addressing SGBV and Health in Refugee Contexts in Uganda

  • Seminar: Addressing SGBV and Sexual & Reproductive Health in Refugee Contexts in Uganda

  • Day 2 Seminar: Addressing SGBV and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Refugee Contexts in Uganda

• The Monitor - Let girls be...end early marriages

WASH

• CWS - Improving Health and Dignity for Refugees in Nakivali: A Comprehensive WASH Initiative

• Salesian Mission - Clean Water for Refugees in Uganda

• UNICEF -

  • Clean water, restored hope - Aquatabs bring relief to refugees in Nakivale Refugee Settlement

  • When EU Humanitarian Aid, UNICEF water came to Kiryandongo - How a new EU Humanitarian Aid- and UNICEF-supported water system is transforming life for refugees and host communities in Uganda.

  • (video) - When clean water came to #Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement — a story of hope and partnership.

  • EU Humanitarian Aid–UNICEF water systems end long treks for Kiryandongo refugees - “It’s a system that doesn’t have to wait for sunshine or for fuel. We designed it to keep running, all day, every day on either fuel or sunshine.”

Other:

• AfDB/UNHCR - Investing in development responses to forced displacement in Africa

• The AfriChild Centre - (video) - Building Hope and Resilience Through Refugee-Led Action in Uganda - Mukamba January (Now & Tomorrow)

• All Africa -

  • Stromme Foundation Launches School Feeding Program in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement

  • Uganda's Housing Crunch Worsens As Affluent Refugees Move in

• American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science - Analysis of the nature, causes, and manifestations of land conflicts in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda

• Blitz - Sudanese refugees in Uganda find safety opportunity and hope amid war’s turmoil

• CARE - Uganda’s VSLAs go digital: Empowering women through technology

• CGTN - (video) -

  • Kampala’s housing crisis worsens amid refugee surge

  • South Sudanese refugees in Uganda hope for an end to violence at home

• Darfur Victims Support Organisation - Refugee-Led Organizations Extend Lifeline to Flood-Affected Women in Kampala

• DCA - Building Hope Together, Refugees Supporting Refugees in Nakivale

• DevDiscourse - Investing in Refugees: How Africa Can Turn Forced Displacement into Opportunity - A new AfDB–UNHCR report urges Africa to shift from short-term humanitarian aid to long-term development investments that empower refugees and host communities alike. It argues that by treating displacement as a development opportunity, the continent can drive inclusive growth, resilience, and regional stability.

• DRC - Asylum policy under threat - The case of Uganda (September 2025)

• Energy for Sustainable Development - Household cooking fuels, their environmental impacts and community priority interventions in refugee settlements in Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Population Dashboard - September 2025 -

    • Annex I - Active Population by Settlement

    • Annex II - Refugee Statistics Map

    • Annex III - Settlement Profiles

  • Refugee Statistics September 2025

  • Sudanese Refugees and Asylum Seekers

    • as of 05 October 2025

    • as of 19 October 2025

  • Refugee Arrival Monitoring Dashboard 2022-2025

  • Weekly Critical Indicator Tracking Matrix -

    • 18 September 2025

    • 25 September 2025

• Government 4927 - South Sudan refugees in Uganda exceed one million; UN renews appeal for help

• H & I - Project Kick-​Off Meeting in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda 

• The Human Aspect - Lived experiences

• Impiger - Strengthening refugee support with Impiger’s DRDIP web application for government of Uganda

• The Independent - From refugee camp to boardroom: Ugandan girls rewriting their future

• ISGF - ISGF project for shelters South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

• Journal of Refugee Studies -

  • Tensions and coexistence: host narratives of refugee presence in Nakivale, Uganda

  • Integration Refugees and Host Communities Through Sport: Case Study of a Women’s Football Tournament in Uganda

  • Credible fictions: how states stage refugee governance for geopolitical gain

• MAF - Bringing Hope to Uganda’s Refugees

• MECS - Powering Change: Unlocking Climate Finance to Scale eCooking for Refugee and Informal Communities in Kampala, Uganda

• Mercy Corps - Scaling Sustainable Community led Models for E-waste Management in Displacement Settings

• Monitor -

  • Govt halts asylum seeker registrations amid aid cuts

  • Austrian minister urges international community not to abandon Uganda’s refugee response amid aid cuts

  • (pay for content) - How young refugees are challenging gender norms

• Mulenga News - Kyangwali Refugee Camp in Turmoil: JLOS Exposes Spike in Gender Violence and Theft

• New Vision - Uganda launches longest every cycling race to support refugee children

• Nile Post -

  • South Korea, UNHCR Strengthen Partnership to Support Uganda’s Refugees

  • France, Proparco launch initiative to boost financial inclusion for refugees in Uganda

• NTV - (video) -

  • 4,000 children in refugee camps to get free meals

  • How civil society agency is empowering refugees

  • School feeding programs in refugee settlements | MORNING AT NTV

• The Observer - IsraAID Uganda outs new masterplan to help refugees

• OCHA - Financial Tracking Service

  • Uganda 2025

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan 2025

  • South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan 2025

  • Sudan Emergency: Regional Refugee Response Plan 2025

• Re:Build - (video) - Unlocking Access: Re:BUiLD’s Documentation Campaign for Refugee Inclusion

• U-Learn Uganda -

  • Summary of URRI Gender and Power Analysis and Baseline findings

  • Summary of URRI baseline assessment

  • Bibliography of Climate Definitions in Uganda’s Refugee Response

  • A guide to developing Learning and Innovation Agendas for refugee programming – two-page summary

  • A guide to developing Learning and Innovation Agendas for refugee programming

• UNHCR

  • South Sudan Situation:

    • UNHCR External Update

      • #3 (August 2025)

      • #4 (September 2025)

    • Core 29 Oct 2025

  • Sudan Situation:

    • UNHCR Monthly External Update

      • #111 - September 2025

      • #110 - August 2025

    • Map Weekly Regional Update -

      • 27 Oct 2025

      • 20 Oct 2025

      • 13 Oct 2025

  • A critical step toward saving lives: helping humanitarian workers respond to substance use with empathy and care

  • Reuniting refugee families in Uganda

  • (video) - When fighting spread in his hometown Darfur, he left everything behind

• UniCatt - Internally displaced people in Africa: The case of Uganda

• Vol.At - Austria and Uganda Strengthen Cooperation in Migration Management

• WFP -

  • A lifeline at risk: food assistance at a breaking point - Refugees in Uganda country report (September 2025)

  • WFP Uganda Country Brief, September 2025

• WHO - A critical step toward saving lives: helping humanitarian workers respond to substance use with empathy and care

• World Bank Group - Disclosable Version of the ISR - Uganda: Roads and Bridges in the Refugee Hosting Districts/Koboko-Yumbe-Moyo Road Corridor Project - P171339

• WUSC - Challenges and Opportunities for Refugee Women-Led Organizations in Uganda