Uganda Session Solutions Alliance Round-table 9 February, 2016

An Open Door Policy Signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, 1967 Protocol and the OAU Convention Refugee Act of 2006 and the Refugee Regulations of 2010 Uganda has on average hosted 166,000 refugees annually since 1961 Today Uganda hosts 512,966 refugees and asylum seekers – an all time high 3rd largest in Africa 8th largest in the world Approx. 80 % of refugees and asylum seekers in Uganda arrived in the last 5 years

Refugee hosting in nine districts

A Ugandan village – and home to refugees and host communities alike, with equal access to services

The Case of West Nile – portraying the need to bridge the humanitarian and development divide

Refugees included in National Development Planning Instead of pushing refugees from humanitarian to development approaches,, the Government and the UNCT are starting from a development paradigm, and then including refugees in it. Agenda 2030 for Sustainable DevelopmentUganda Vision 2040

The rights and needs of displaced people - such as freedom of movement, protection, access to basic services and livelihood opportunities - must be understood not only as “humanitarian” in nature, but equally as development challenges to be addressed in concert with the needs of host communities and local institutions. Settlement Transformative Agenda

Refugee and Host Community Empowerment

Challenges & Opportunities Land management Meaningful engagement of youth Funding Engagement of other development actors and private sector and academia Competition for resources Solid gender strategy GoU commitment An already progressive environment Firmly anchored in NDP II Strong interest and support UN-WB collaboration Relationships with academia Pulse Lab Kampala

Support needed Advocacy and resource mobilization for Ugandan model Advice on how a National Solutions Alliance, under strong Government leadership, could become an inclusive and multi-stakeholder forum or governance body with a particular emphasis on the development and implementation a Refugee Settlement Transformative Agenda and the ReHoPE programme. Advice on how the International alliance can support programme development and implementation at the national level Advice on private sector engagement, especially at the local level Data, research and performance measurement support to develop a robust M&E framework

Thank You!