Uganda Refugee News - September 2023

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Sector specific:

Education:

• JRS -

  • Meet Serge, a refugee and pen artist drawing sketches of his future

  • Providing school transport to aid the mobility of students to schools

• Global Refugee Leaders - PASHA workshop in Kampala Empowers Refugees Through Art expressions

• Norwegian University of Life Sciences - Partnership for education in refugee-host contexts: Joint learning towards food security and sustainable development in Uganda

• Monitor - Alim: Why other refugees shouldn’t suffer like me

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

• UNESCO - Let's Talk Learning with Joel Baraka

• University of Edinburgh - Integrating refugee students into Ugandan higher education: Language, othering and everyday enactments of participation

• Windle International Uganda -

  • 19 Girls benefit from University of Kisubi and UNHCR female refugee scholarship

  • 5th Cohort of SRP beneficiaries depart to Canada

• World Congress of Architects - (pay for access) - Redistributing Opportunity: Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre, Uganda

Environment & Energy:

• African Development Bank - Multinational - UNHCR-Enhancing Investment Climate for the Empowerment of Refugee and Host Community Women in East - IPR May 2023

• CCTGN - (video) - Burundian refugee plants over 30,000 trees in Uganda

Health:

• BMJ - Prevention and promotion effects of Self Help Plus: secondary analysis of cluster randomised controlled trial data among South Sudanese refugee women in Uganda

• New Vision - West Nile District gets health project

• Organisatin of Islamic Cooperation - OIC Medical Camp in Uganda Successfully Treats Hundreds for Hernia, Cataracts, and Related Illnesses

• SJH Research - Utiliization of antenatal care services among refugee teenage mothers at Nakivale refugee settlement in Western Uganda. A phenomenological study

• Uganda Radio Network - (log in required) - New HIV Infections in Refugee Hosting Areas Worry Adjumani Officials

Livelihoods & Resilience:

• IGAD - Refugees, Government and Private Sector Meet Nationally for Implementation of the IGAD Kampala Declaration on Livelihoods

• ILO - Harmonizing lives: ILO promotes social cohesion among refugees and hosts in Uganda

• IZA Discussion Paper - Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda

• New Vision - Minister urges new land donations to support refugee agriculture

• Nile Post - Unlocking Finance, Trade, Investment, and Empowering Refugee Women

• NTV - (video) - Onek: Life is getting harder in refugee settlements

• Minority Africa - (video) - “A big gamble”: Inside a savings group for refugees living with a disability in Uganda

• REACH - Monitoring urban refugee influxes due to food assistance changes in Uganda - Round 2

Protection:

• Rethinking Refuge - Rethinking Refugee Women’s Power and Vulnerability

• UNHCR - Uganda Refugee New Arrival Report Focus On Protection: In The Mid West, North, And West Nile, January to June 2023

WASH:

• New Vision - Worry as 47% of water sources in West Nile are polluted

Other:

• Bukeddi - How 19-year-old uses activism to advocate for refugee girls’ rights

• CNN - One of the world’s largest refugee camps is getting a groundbreaking new arts center

• FEWS-Net - Uganda Price Bulletin, September 2023

• Global Refugee Leaders - Open letter to OPM: Facilitate Congolese refugees to leave Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda - Uganda Refugee Response (31 August 2023)

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

  • Population Dashboard: Overview of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda as of 31 August 2023

  • Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Uganda - Uganda Refugee Response (31 August 2023)

  • Refugee Statistics August 2023 - Active Population by Settlement

  • Refugee Statistics August 2023

  • Refugee Statistics August 2023 - Settlement & Urban Profiles

• Monitor -

  • Refugee girl footballers shoot for stars in TICAD Cup

  • Refugees, residents say police not helping them

  • Soccer Without Borders Scores Goals of Hope for Refugee Children

  • Refugees now a threat to host communities, says minister

  • Over 4,000 refugees hit by floods in Adjumani

• New Vision - WFP in donor crisis calls for sh298b funding to save refugees

• NTV Uganda - (video) - World bank urged to consider refugee projects in need to improve infrastructure

• SSRN - Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda

• Radio Pacis - Uganda Human Rights Commission empowers refugees in Palorinya on the laws of the country

• UNHCR -

  • Uganda Refugee New Arrival Report Focus On Protection: In The Mid West, North, And West Nile, January to June 2023

  • Summary of learning from recent research, March 2023

  • Regional Dashboard RB EHAGL:

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum as of 31 August 2023

    • Refugees and asylum-seekers by situation as of 31 August 2023

    • Operational Update July 2023

• UNHCR/JDC - Socioeconomic data, evidence and action in East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes region

• WFP - Uganda Country Brief, August 2023