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FAO’s programme to support refugees and the host community in Uganda

Linking emergency agricultural livelihood support to longer-term development










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    Food security and resilience of refugees and host communities in south-west Uganda
    FAO resilience analysis report No. 19 - Analysing resilience for better targeting and action
    2019
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    In collaboration with the Resilience Measurement Unit under the Office of the Prime Minister in Uganda, the report compiles information on the status of food security and resilience of refugee and host community households in Kamwenge and Kyegewa districts of south-west Uganda. The programme recommendations highlighted in the report aims to inform or update strategies developed by relevant stakeholders in Uganda, to guide programme implementation that would strengthen resilience of both refugee households and host community households in this area, including guiding refugees from relying on humanitarian assistance to self-reliance.
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    Food security, resilience and well-being analysis of refugees and host communities in Northern Uganda
    FAO Resilience Analysis Report No. 12
    2018
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    In August 2017, FAO was asked by the Commissioner for Refugees (Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda) to support the implementation of a socio-economic analysis within the refugees’ settlements and host communities, with the aim of providing a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the refugees’ food security, well-being and resilience. Although refugees in Uganda are given land and mobility rights, their food security remains low, with a high dependency on food aid. The assumption was that by better understanding refugees’ preferences and livelihoods strategies which determine their resilience, it would be possible to unlock the development potential of the land, increase productivity and help them achieve independence and self-reliance.
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    Building durable solutions for refugees and host communities through inclusive value chain development in Uganda
    A comprehensive agricultural livelihoods approach in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement
    2023
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    Uganda hosts over 1.5 million refugees, primarily displaced due to violence and civil unrest in neighbouring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Around 95 percent live in settlements across eleven refugee-hosting districts, with 80 percent living below the international poverty line, and 54 percent experiencing food insecurity. Despite Uganda's progressive refugee policy, refugees struggle to integrate into local economies and become self-reliant. The protracted displacement situation of most refugees and limited prospects of return to their countries of origin mean that local integration is the most realistic durable solution for refugees in Uganda. In Uganda, FAO conducted value chain and market systems analyses in order to develop the skills of 1 000 refugees and 1 365 members of Ugandan host communities in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement to participate in productive agriculture. Using FAO’s Farmer Field School approach in partnership with a local Ugandan non-governmental organization, mixed groups of Ugandans and refugees learned how to grow passion fruit, a valuable cash crop, using locally adapted, climate-smart techniques. Participants were also trained to grow horticultural crops, including tomatoes and eggplants to improve household nutrition, and were encouraged to form Village Savings and Loan Associations and producer cooperatives to negotiate prices collectively on the market. This good practice provides an overview of a four-year inclusive value chain development project implemented by FAO from 2020 to 2024, with funds from the IKEA foundation, in refugee-hosting regions of Kenya and Uganda.

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