1. Refugee Response A Case Study of Uganda
Patrick Munduga
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2. Talking Points Legal Frameworks Situation
Camp Administration and Management
Key Issues
Interventions: Emergency Phase
Gaps
What Worked
Recommendations
Towards Self Reliance

3. Legal Frameworks
Lauded as most progressive refugee policy in the world
Open door  to all asylum
Relative freedom of movement
Provides asylum for refugees of certain  nationalities; and
Gives land to each refugee family for their own exclusive use.
Does not grant citizenship
Principles and Freedoms (2006 Act, 2010 Regulations)
Property ownership
employment
Economic, social, and cultural benefits
Fairness, justice, and non discrimination, etc
Progressive policy:
Door open to all asylum seekers irrespective of nationality or ethnic affiliation,
Grants refugees relative freedom of movement; administrative permits to leave and return to their designated settlements, and the right to seek employment;
Provides prima facie asylum for refugees of certain nationalities; and
Gives a piece of land to each refugee family for their own exclusive (agricultural) use.
No permanent solution of citizenship for refugees who can neither repatriate nor be resettled elsewhere
Principles and Freedoms
the right to own and dispose of movable property and to lease or sublease immoveable property;
the right to engage in agriculture, industry, and business; practice ones  profession; and access formal and informal employment opportunities;
the right to economic, social, and cultural benefits, including access to elementary education, protection of intellectual property rights;
entitlement to receive fair and just treatment, without discrimination, etc

4. Situation Receptive refugee climate
1.6 million refugees as at mid May (80% RSS)
Main origins include: RSS, DRC, Burundi, Somalia
Majority women and children
Receptive refugee climate
1.6 million refugees as at mid May (80% RSS) – highest refugee population in the world
Main origins include: RSS, DRC, Burundi, Somalia
Bidi Bidi largest camp in the world with approx 400,000 refugees
Majority women and children

5. Situation Cont’d Refugee Response Plan figures for 2017 RSS outflows
Ethiopia – 366,000
Sudan – 330,000
Kenya – 108,000
DRC – 105,000
CAR – 10,500

6. Camp Administration and Management
Structure: OPM, Region, Settlement, Zone, Village
Zone structure: Chair, Welfare, Security, Women, WUC, Food monitoring, VHTs
Reception: Manual, Attestation cards, REMIS
Tracing and Reunification (OPM, Red Cross)
Sectors: Health, Food, Environment, Protection, Education
Implementing partners: Operational (Unfunded), or Cooperating (Self-funded)
Coordination: Interagency and sectoral

7. Key Issues Education Widows and orphans Unaccompanied children
Psychosocial care
Health centers poorly equipped
Conflicts with host community
Arid land
Urban refugees (crime, support)
Deforestation
Water scarcity
Lack of land
Food scarcity
SGBV
Prostitution and HIV/AIDS
Ethnic tensions
Key Issues

8. Interventions: Emergency Phase
100% food rations (WFP)
30m x30m land per household for shelter + kitchen garden (OPM)
Water (few boreholes, water tanks)
Schools (make shift classrooms)
Health centers
Training for women (gardening, tailoring, cottage - crafts, soap, etc.)
Training for men – construction, carpentry, agric (ADRA, CARITAS)
OPM: Legal, Child Protection, SGBV, General Protection, Community Services (e.g. dialogues)

9. Gaps Shelters for schools
Lack of effective participation by host sub county in dispute resolution
No means of communication between refugees and families left behind
Lack of water for irrigation and domestic use
Lack of money economy and business capital
Girls: sanitary facilities, clothing

10. What worked? Safe reporting sites set up by host country
Frequency of reception centers
Mixed vouchers

11. Recommendations
Churches – conflict resolution, reconciliation, behavior change (substance abuse and violence), trauma healing
Distribution of Energy-efficient stoves and solar lamps
Enhance participation of host local government in dispute resolution
Logistics, training, interaction, culture, sensitization
Environmentally sustainable construction materials
Improve quality of maternal health care and health referral system
Address school girl attrition rates (Sanitary facilities and materials)
Irrigation schemes to adapt to low and unreliable rainfall patterns
Improve security of food distribution to curb pilferage
Reforestation

12. Recommendations cont’d
Peace mediation
Long term stabilization missions
AU-led stabilization operations

13. Towards Self Reliance Why? How? ReHope $350 million over 5 years
Improves return rate
Peaceful co-existence with host community
Boosts host economy
Refugee skills form backbone of nascent return economy
How? ReHope $350 million over 5 years
Sustainable livelihoods
Integrated and Sustainable Social Service Delivery
Community and system resilience
Protection including emergency response
Preparing refugees for solutions for home return
Sustainable livelihoods based on:
• modernized agricultural practices and improved market linkages
• market-driven technical skills and small-scale enterprise.
Integrated and Sustainable Social Service Delivery with District Local Government systems focused particularly on the health and education sectors.
Community and system resilience based on dialogue and peaceful co-existence.
Protection including emergency response Preserve equal and unhindered access to territory and protection space and promote the full enjoyment of rights, while maintaining the civilian character of asylum
Preparing refugees for solutions, such as building knowledge, skills, and capacities for refugees when they return home