This reseach report evaluates how the 100WEEKS model – cash, savings groups, and training over two years – compares with the Uganda Cash Consortium’s (UCC) six months of unconditional cash assistance in supporting refugee households’ basic needs and self-reliance.
The 2025 CRRF Annual Report provides an overview of Uganda’s refugee response, highlighting national coordination, key frameworks, and efforts to strengthen a more integrated, government-led approach. Led by the Office of the Prime Minister, the report highlights collaboration between government, partners, and local actors to support refugees and host communities.
The JLIRP remained highly relevant to Uganda’s development and refugee-response priorities, addressing the critical needs of self-reliance, income generation, food security, and skilling in line with NDP III, Vision 2040, the CRRF, and other sector refugee
response plans.
The summary of the Uganda Self-Reliance
Index (UG-SRI) User guide provides a brief for administering the Self-reliance
index, its background and use, and the purpose and contents of the Uganda
Self-reliance index in each domain.
The Uganda Self-Reliance Index (UG-SRI) user guide provides instructions for administering the Self-Reliance index, including interviewer guidance, domain definitions, and scoring procedures, to ensure consistency and high-quality implementation across contexts.
The Uganda Self-reliance Index (UG-SRI) baseline report summary shows a summary of the key findings findings from the baseline study whose objective was to enhance the understanding, coordination, measurement, and tracking of self-reliance among refugees and host communities in Uganda.
The Uganda Self-reliance Index (UG-SRI) baseline report by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development shows findings from the baseline study whose objective was to enhance the understanding, coordination, measurement, and tracking of self-reliance among refugees and host communities in Uganda.
The URRI Gender and Power Analysis (GAP), funded by DANIDA, examined gender inequalities, power dynamics, and opportunities for inclusion across nine refugee-hosting districts in Uganda. Its findings provide the foundation for a Gender Action Plan that will strengthen URRI programming by addressing gender disparities, transforming unequal power relations, and advancing gender equality and social justice.
The URRI baseline assessment, funded by DANIDA, established reference data across nine refugee-hosting districts in Uganda on climate-smart agriculture, natural resource management, and gender inclusion. The findings provide a foundation for tracking URRI’s impact and informing evidence-based programming to strengthen resilience among refugees and host communities.
This summary presents key insights from the URRI baseline assessment carried out in nine refugee-hosting districts of Uganda. The study established reference data on climate-smart agriculture, natural resource management, and gender inclusion to guide programme implementation. Funded by DANIDA, the baseline provides a foundation for tracking progress and measuring the impact of the URRI programme.
This snapshot highlights key findings from a Gender and Power Analysis conducted across nine refugee-hosting districts in Uganda. The study explores existing gender inequalities, community power dynamics, and opportunities to promote inclusion under the Uganda Refugee Resilience Initiative (URRI). Funded by DANIDA, the analysis informs programme strategies to strengthen gender equality and empowerment.
The Learning and Innovation Agenda (LIA) guidance summarises and preserves the institutional memory and tacit know-how of the U-RIL team over the past six years. Read more in this 2-page summary.
This guidance summarises and preserves the institutional memory & tacit know-how of the U-RIL team on the topic of Learning Agenda Development.
Discover the new U-Learn podcast, The Refugee Response Lens, launched in partnership with UKAID. In the first episode, experts explore clean energy, climate resilience and the challenges facing refugees and host communities in Uganda.
Results from 20 organisations enrolled in U-Learn’s AAP in Action (AAPA) program in Uganda’s refugee response
This spotlight documents the unique Learning Hub model and its achievements under the U-Learn programme since 2020.
November 21, 2024 The CRRF strategic framework has been operationalised through the development of sectoral response plans in the years following its adoption. In 2020,
Lessons form the Northern Uganda Resilience Initiative (NURI), a programme (2019-2022) financed by Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the Uganda Country Programme.
NURI aimed to enhance the resilience and equitable economic development of refugees and refugee hosting communities in Northern Uganda.
October 23, 2024 Uthabiti, meaning ‘resilience’ in Swahili, is a three-year humanitarian-development nexus activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Bureau
October 7, 2024 The Urban Livelihoods Assessment Report 2024 assesses the livelihoods of urban refugees and host communities in Makindye division, Kampala, Uganda, as part
In recent years, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has emerged as a game-changer, helping to foster resilient farming practices and bolstering food security in Uganda. What is
Summary for Refugee Response
Stakeholders in Uganda
July 11, 2024 The Entrepreneurship learning brief highlights current approaches to entrepreneurship support within Uganda’s refugee response, documenting how refugees and host communities are supported
The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (U-RIL) is an interactive tool to bridge the skills gap in refugee and host communities in Uganda.
This case study provides a deeper understanding of how the employment of Mobile Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programming in refugee response addresses some of the barriers faced by last-mile populations in accessing traditional TVET opportunities.
The Digital Savings Group Learning brief offers critical reflections on whether a savings group in the Uganda refugee response is ready to go digital, on the objectives for pursuing digitisation/digitalisation, and on key challenges in making the shift.