Climate Hazard Assessment – Kikuube District
August 29, 2026
This report evaluates climate hazards in Uganda’s Kikuube District, where rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall fuel severe seasonal droughts and localized flooding.
This report evaluates climate hazards in Uganda’s Kikuube District, where rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall fuel severe seasonal droughts and localized flooding.
Published in April 2026 by REACH, this report evaluates climate risks in Kiryandongo District, Uganda, where rising temperatures and erratic rainfall threaten over 165,000 refugees and local host communities.
This report evaluates the climate hazard vulnerability of Koboko District, Uganda, a region hosting over 31,000 formal and self-settled refugees near the borders of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The REACH April 2026 report assesses climate hazards in Uganda’s Lamwo District, analyzing historical trends and future projections for seasonal drought and localized flooding.
This summary presents downscaled climate projections for Madi Okollo District under the SSP2-4.5 moderate emissions scenario, evaluating shift patterns between the historical baseline (1970–2000) and mid-century (2041–2060).
An assessment of seasonal drought risks, flood hazards, and mid-century climate projections for host and refugee communities in Obongi District, Uganda.
This REACH report analyzes climate hazards and future projections in Terego District, Uganda. It highlights rising heat stress, unpredictable rainfall, seasonal drought, and localized flooding affecting rural host communities and refugee settlements.
This assessment examines climate hazards in Kyegegwa District, focusing on drought, flooding, rainfall variability and rising temperatures, and their impacts on refugee and host communities. It provides evidence to support targeted climate adaptation and resilience planning.
The partnership between Swisscontact and Home Harvest Limited, funded by USAID’s Uthabiti Activity, sought to improve the horticulture sector in Isingiro District by enhancing access to quality inputs, knowledge, and market opportunities for refugees and hostcommun ities.
The partnership between Swisscontact and Erymag, funded by USAID’s Uthabiti activity, aimed to boost economic activity in Lamwo District, Uganda, by expanding agricultural trade networks.
The collaboration between Swisscontact (market facilitator) and Birya United Agencies Ltd (private sector actor) within the USAID-funded Uthabiti Activity aimed to tackle systemic challenges in the dried beans supply chain of the Nakivale settlement.
The collaboration between Grameen Foundation and the Rural Finance Initiative (RUFI) in Palabek was dedicated to advancing financial inclusion among refugee and host community members. This partnership focused on increasing access to financial services and digitising Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) to uplift households, foster self-reliance, and enhance economic
resilience within the targeted population.
Grameen Foundation and UGAFODE partnered on the USAID-funded Uthabiti Activity to boost financial inclusion and resilience in Uganda’s Isingiro District. This summary presents key insights from a learning activity conducted in March 2024These findings shed light on the partnership’s emerging achievements in improving livelihoods and household well-being.
This learning review captures key lessons from five Uthabiti partnerships that strengthened livelihoods for refugees and host communities through financial inclusion, market linkages, agricultural training, and private sector collaboration.
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.
This summary explores how private sector engagement can strengthen agricultural livelihoods for refugees and host communities in Uganda. It highlights practical collaboration models between businesses and NGOs, key market-based approaches, common challenges, and recommendations for creating more sustainable and inclusive agricultural market systems in refugee-hosting districts.
This output examines key lessons, partnership models, and practical strategies for improving private sector engagement in Uganda’s refugee response.
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.
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.
Localisation is a priority of the Uganda refugee response and a Grand Bargain commitment. Since 2020, U-Learn has advanced this agenda by strengthening local humanitarian leadership and promoting inclusive participation in key response platforms. This learning brief highlights the key workstreams and lessons emerging from these efforts.
This brief shows how climate-related hazards are increasing the burden of unpaid household labour, particularly for women and girls. It shows how water scarcity, flooding, and extreme heat intensify workloads, heighten protection risks, and reduce time for education and income-generating activities.
This brief shows how climate-related hazards are increasing the burden of unpaid household labour, particularly for women and girls. It shows how water scarcity, flooding, and extreme heat intensify workloads, heighten protection risks, and reduce time for education and income-generating activities.
This brief highlights how extreme heat, drought, and flooding are affecting agricultural livelihoods in Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement. It documents reduced crop yields, livestock losses, and food insecurity, alongside community coping strategies and key gaps in climate-resilient support.
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 Climate terminology bank provides key definitions and facts related to climate and resilience for Uganda’s refugee response. Its goal is to build a common understanding among stakeholders and support the integration of climate-smart practices in humanitarian efforts.
The Self-reliance brief captures the state of affairs of self-reliance policy and programming in Uganda’s refugee response.
The Localisation Assessment Report explores how actors currently generate, share, and use evidence and how they engage affected populations to inform decision-making in the Uganda’s refugee response.
The Localisation Evidence Brief was developed to support more locally-led humanitarian action in Uganda’s refugee response. It captures learning from across Uganda’s localisation landscape drawing on consultations with various actors in the Refugee Response.
This in-depth assessment, drawing primarily on data collected in 2024, examines climate change response strategies in the refugee and host communities of Nyumanzi settlement (Adjumani
The Market Systems Development (MSD) in the Uganda Refugee Response compendium highlights programs that use the MSD approach to enhance self-reliance among refugees and host
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
This report explores barriers and enablers to sustainable energy consumption among refugee and host communities, supporting humanitarian and development actors in addressing environmental degradation and climate change adaptation.
This publication examines trends, challenges, and findings from 25 sources from the last 13 years (2010–2022) in relation to the Ugandan refugee response. It covers microenterprises and small enterprises, with a focus on rural and settlement-level entrepreneurs.
This Agricultural Value Chains strategic positioning paper provides a roadmap to support Livelihoods and Resilience Sector Working Group (LRSWG) members’ efforts to increase farmers’ income, improve their self-sufficiency.
An assessment of livelihood barriers and enablers for refugees and host communities in urban and settlement locations
An assessment of livelihood barriers and enablers for refugees and host communities in urban and settlement locations.
This desk review highlights key information from 25 documents about labour markets in the 13 refugee-hosting districts of Uganda.
This assessment of user experiences and perspectives on digital financial services and assistance mechanisms informs actors in Uganda’s humanitarian response and other stakeholders about the
Study Brief This brief presents the summarised findings of the study on Financial Services and Humanitarian Mechanisms in the Uganda Refugee Response: An Assessment of
A two page summary of the REF (Refugee Engagement Forum) Good Practice study. The Refugee Engagement Forum (REF) is a unique, participatory mechanism designed to
The Refugee Engagement Forum (REF) has proven to be a successful model for sustained refugee participation in national decision-making. Whilst it is not yet very well known, its unique structure and demonstrated value have the potential to inspire other countries to adopt a similar approach. As a result, the REF Good Practice Study was instigated to identify key lessons and successes from the REF, and to document the Ugandan experience for the benefit of those in and outside of Uganda.
In late 2020 U-Learn1 conducted an assessment on COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) in Uganda. The assessment was designed in collaboration with Ministry