This assessment maps drought, heat, and flood risks in Uganda’s Yumbe District to help guide climate adaptation and disaster planning for local communities and Bidibidi Refugee Settlement residents.
This climate hazard assessment highlights how rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and recurring seasonal droughts and floods threaten livelihoods and food security for refugee and host communities in Uganda’s Adjumani District.
This assessment examines climate hazards in Isingiro District, highlighting increasing heat, seasonal drought and localized flooding and their impacts on refugee and host communities.
This assessment examines climate hazards in Kamwenge District, highlighting increasing drought, heat and localized flood risks and their implications for refugee and host communities.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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
This desk review explores the application of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Uganda’s refugee response, highlighting the initiatives, policies, and strategies that promote resilient and sustainable
Results from 20 organisations enrolled in U-Learn’s AAP in Action (AAPA) program in Uganda’s refugee response
November 7, 2024 This 2 pager gives an overview of U-Learn’s achievements for the 3 components (AAP, Research, Learning) since 2020. Pdf reader will load
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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
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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.
In this desk review on Energy for Household Use in Uganda’s refugee response, we delve into the critical aspects shaping the energy landscape within this context.
This desk review provides an overview and accessible summary of existing resources on the Productive Use of Energy (PUE) in Uganda Refugee Response. It lays out the background on of PUE and its applications, as well as the national frameworks that guide PUE’s adoption in Uganda.
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.