This report maps feedback and safeguarding mechanisms in Uganda’s refugee response, highlighting key strengths, gaps and recommendations to strengthen accountability and service delivery. It also captures community priorities, showing how food security, health, education and other needs are interconnected and increasingly urgent amid funding constraints.
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.
This blog reflects on how self-reliance has been conceptualised and operationalised in Uganda and on the programmatic pathways actors are prioritising today. It also summarizes the progress made towards reaching the GRF pledge made by the Government of Uganda on resilience and self-reliance. Emphasis is placed on the multi-dimensionality of self-reliance.
U-Learn and HINGO, with support from FCDO, conducted a rapid Community Priorities Assessment based on interviews with 38 Refugee Welfare Councils. The findings highlight food security as the most frequently identified top priority, while health, education and other services also feature prominently. Collected just before further service cuts in January 2026, the assessment underscores the increasingly urgent, interconnected and multi-sectoral needs facing refugee communities.