Tophius Chali, the Settlement Commandant at the Kyangwali refugee settlement area explains that those selected to benefit from the plots have been thoroughly screened and allocated refugees’ attestation cards.
The settlement, which is home to 145,620 refugees, is grappling with funding gaps, leaving management struggling to meet the basic needs of the displaced population. Recently, many implementing partners have pulled their support from the settlement, citing challenges in securing funding.
Emmanuel Turyagenda, the settlement Commandant at the Panyadoli refugee settlement area, explains that the number of children of school age in the settlement area far exceeds the number and capacity of schools, classrooms, desks, chairs, and toilets among other requirements.
Emmanuel Turyagenda, the Commandant of Panyadoli Refugee Settlement, says some refugees escape and return after two to three months. He says this affects their planning as the number of refugees keeps on varying following the escape of some of the refugees.
Museveni’s speech was read by the Prime Minister, Robina Nabanja at the Global Refugee Forum 2023 taking place from 13 to 15 December at the Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland.
The multi-year program partnership is worth 78.2 billion Shillings, part of which, the European Union (EU) has this year allocated 26 billion Shillings.
Rauf Mazou, the Assistant High Commissioner for Operations at the UNHCR, explained that the funds will be used to help refugees become more self-reliant, which will reduce their dependence on humanitarian aid.
CSOs will be charged with training of community monitoring groups in matters to do with corruption detection and reporting, but also act at a rapid response team in case of an incident.
This is a 200 million dollars (720 billion shilling) project that government, through the Office of the Prime Minister is undertaking in the refugee-hosting districts.
The affected mainly women and children were evicted from Bukinda A and B, Bukinda 2, Kavule, Bwizibwera A and B, Kyeya A and B, Nyaruhanga, Kabirizi, Nyamigisa A and B and Katoma villages among others in Kasonga parish, Kyangwali sub-county.
Details from a joint research released by the Center for Health and Social Economic Improvement, Makerere University, Gulu University and Ministry of Health early this week point the knowledge gap among refugees in relation to responses against COVID-19 at 40 per cent.
“We have boosted our assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the additional needs of vulnerable refugees and the Ugandan communities that so generously host them,” U.S. Embassy Kampala’s Chargé d’Affaires Christopher Krafft said.
The decision to announce the total lockdown was reached at during the Regional COVID-19 Taskforce meeting held at the Kikuube district headquarters today.
Up 10 124 people were quarantined at Kasonga Youth Development Centre in Kikuube district after the death of the Congolese refugee and, According to Kikuube Resident District Commissioner Richard Tabaro, the confirmed cases are also contacts of the same DRC national.
Dr Nicholas Kwikiriza, the Kikuube District Health Officer–DHO, says the confirmed cases are contacts of the Congolese national who succumbed to the pandemic on August 8, 2020, in the settlement.
Addressing journalists on Saturday at the Media Centre, the Deputy Spokesperson of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces/ Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs, Lt Col Deo Akiiki said the five were arrested at Butogota, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo- DRC.
The Project dubbed “Mutual Inter-Related Resilience programme”-MIRP is a collaboration between four Organizations including Act of Sweden, the Lutheran World Federation, Norwegian Refugee Council and Action Against Hunger of United States.
