This output explores emerging lessons, partnership models, and practical approaches for strengthening private sector engagement in Uganda’s refugee response. It highlights experiences from market systems development programmes, financial inclusion initiatives, entrepreneurship support, and NGO–private sector collaborations, while documenting key successes, challenges, and opportunities for building more sustainable and inclusive livelihoods systems for refugees and host communities. Key insights: • Food security is most frequently identified as the #1 priority. • However, needs are not confined to one sector — health, education, and other services consistently appear within top-three priorities. • Data was collected just one month before additional service cuts took effect in January 2026 — and conditions have since deteriorated due to funding constraints. Community voices are clear: needs are multi-sectoral, interconnected, and urgent.

The 2025 Annual Report of Uganda’s Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) provides an overview of Uganda’s refugee response during the year, outlining the national coordination approach, key frameworks, and ongoing efforts to strengthen a more integrated, government-led system. Developed under the leadership of the Office of the Prime Minister, the report reflects the continued commitment to a coordinated, inclusive, and development-oriented response that brings together government, partners, and local actors to support refugees and host communities.

This is the report of the Workshop on lessons learned and key successes on self reliance and resilience building in refugee and host communities in Uganda. This workshop was organised by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development on 11 December 2025

This report summarises findings from a mapping of feedback and safeguarding mechanisms in Uganda’s refugee response, highlighting key strengths, gaps, and recommendations to improve accountability and service delivery for refugees and host communities. Key insights: • Food security is most frequently identified as the #1 priority. • However, needs are not confined to one sector — health, education, and other services consistently appear within top-three priorities. • Data was collected just one month before additional service cuts took effect in January 2026 — and conditions have since deteriorated due to funding constraints. Community voices are clear: needs are multi-sectoral, interconnected, and urgent.

In this video, Husna Babbra Kia Etum shares key recommendations from the Community Feedback Mechanism session at the 37th Refugee Engagement Forum (REF) dissemination workshop, organised by U-Learn. The REF creates a vital space where refugee voices directly inform policies and programmes through dialogue with government and partners—advancing accountability, participation, and locally driven solutions.