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Akunda, Kullein

Kullein
Akunda

https://ulearn-uganda.org/

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  • U-Learn Uganda

    Non-governmental Organisation, Kampala, Uganda
    Learning Specialist

Research

Reviewing the journey of Self-reliance in the Uganda Refugee Response

Authors U-Learn Uganda
Description
This technical brief captures the state of affairs of self-reliance policy and programming in Uganda’s refugee response. It analyses evolving trends, highlights questions and concerns, and reflects on ways forward. Ultimately, the goal is to inform and guide key actors (i.e. the government, refugee actors and their partners, donors) in their efforts to formulate, support, and implement effective self-reliance programmes.
Year 2025
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1 Report

Localising Research, Learning and Accountability to Affected Populations in Uganda’s Refugee Response

Authors U=learn Uganda
Description
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. It analyses local views and practices in the response in relation to research, learning and AAP. It begins with a desk review of localisation in humanitarian evidence generation, learning and AAP, examining existing studies at a global level. The desk review serves to frame the localisation assessment within a broader context. The rest of the report summarizes the findings from the primary research conducted in Uganda.
Year 2025
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2 Report

Localisation Evidence Brief: Strengthening localisation in Uganda’s refugee response

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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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 district and national actors, refugee-led organisations, government agencies, INGOs, and coordination platforms such as the CRRF, Refugee Engagement Forum (REF), and Humanitarian Platform for Local and National Organisations in Uganda. It showcases good practices and persistent challenges, including the limited access many local organisations especially refugee-led ones have to direct funding and coordination spaces, and the barriers they face in navigating complex registration and compliance processes.
Year 2025
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3 Report

Does equipping humanitarian actors with applied Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) skills yield distinct outcomes?

Authors U-Learn Uganda
Year 2025
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4 Report

Living with Climate-related hazards in Nyumanzi settlement (Adjumani, Uganda)

Authors U-learn Uganda
Description
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 District). It aims to provide detailed data on perceived local climate impacts, deepen understanding of how vulnerable populations are responding, and equip humanitarian actors with actionable insights for more effective interventions. By focusing on lived experiences on the ground—beyond statistics—the assessment sheds light on the realities faced by these communities. The findings also support advocacy for local climate action and increased climate funding, with a particular focus on health, shelter, and livelihoods (including markets, agriculture, and household labour). Given the similar setup of settlements across northern and northwestern districts, and their shared exposure to climate-related hazards, these findings may be indicative of the challenges faced by communities in other settlements as well.
Year 2025
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5 Report

Compendium of Market Systems Development (MSD) programming in Uganda’s refugee response

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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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 communities in Uganda. The Compendium was developed in partnership with the Uganda Market Systems Development Network (UMSDN) as it strives to create a community of practice for like-minded MSD practitioners including development agencies, Non Government Organisations (NGO’s), donor projects, private consulting firms, and private sector firms working across both development and humanitarian contexts in Uganda.
Year 2025
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6 Report

Application of Climate-Smart Agriculture Approaches in Uganda’s Refugee Response

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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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 farming practices among refugee and host communities. The review identifies key CSA approaches, including climate-resilient crop production, livestock management, water conservation, and agroforestry. It also maps out actors involved in implementing CSA initiatives, showcases lessons learned, and presents recommendations for scaling CSA within Uganda’s refugee-hosting districts. Key Highlights include; - Understanding CSA and its role in refugee resilience - National frameworks and policies supporting CSA in Uganda - Agricultural production, natural resource management, and agri-food systems - Challenges, gaps, and recommendations for strengthening CSA in refugee-hosting districts
Year 2025
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Entrepreneurship Support in Uganda’s Refugee Response

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This learning brief is the result of a collective learning process, engaging actors from the humanitarian, development, entrepreneurship and innovation, government, and finance sectors. Its purpose is to take stock of the different approaches to entrepreneurship support implemented in the refugee response and to document the learning in order to inform future programming.
Year 2024
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8 Report

Spotlight on the Uganda Refugee Response Learning Hub

Authors U-Learn Uganda
Description
Since 2020, the Uganda Refugee Response Learning Hub (LH) facilitates learning exchanges on critical themes within the refugee response and seeks to catalyse evidence-based adaptations of policies and practices, fostering self-relianceand nurturing the humanitarian-development nexus. The LH’s holistic approach to learning and its evidence-based influencing model responds to a challenge in the refugee response in terms of accessing and sharing the available evidence. The LH operates as a public good and delivers creative and collectively-shaped learning services and outputs. Its services include convening, curating evidence, documentation, synthesis, mapping and visualisation. This spotlight documents this unique model and its achievements under the U-Learn programme since 2020.
Year 2024
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9 Report

Rwanda Strategy for Sustainable Graduation: An overview

Authors U-learn Uganda
Description
Under the leadership of the Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC), the Government of Rwanda launched the National Strategy for Sustainable Graduation in November 2022. The overarching objective of the National Strategy for Sustainable Graduation in Rwanda is to enable households below the poverty line who have the potential to graduate from poverty to reach a status where they have a sustainable livelihood which is resilient to moderate shocks without needing social protection support. Reflections are ongoing to extend the strategy to the refugees living in Rwanda. The present brief highlights some of the key elements of the strategy and its development process to inform stakeholders participating in the ongoing reflections on graduation programming in Uganda ; it also highlights existing Graduation work in Rwanda.
Year 2024
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10 Report

Energy Practices in Ugandan Settlements Amid Environmental Challenges

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This report serves to inform the humanitarian and development actors in the refugee response about the barriers and enablers of behavior change among the refugee and host community with regards to their energy consumption in the context of environmental degradation and climate change adaptation.
Year 2024
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11 Report

Mainstreaming Accountability Culture in a Refugee Response Context

Authors U-Learn Uganda
Year 2024
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12 Working Paper

Energy for Household Uses in Refugee Settlements in Uganda

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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. The review highlights the multifaceted challenges faced by refugee households in accessing reliable and sustainable energy sources. With a focus on improving living conditions and promoting self-reliance, the review explores ways of enhancing energy access for cooking, lighting, and other essential needs. Insights gathered from this analysis aim to foster a more inclusive and sustainable energy environment for refugee communities in Uganda.
Year 2024
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13 Report

Productive Use of Energy in Uganda’s Refugee Response

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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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 body of documentation highlights the advances in PUE in Uganda, with a focus on refugee settlements, and looks at the main challenges. From identified main barriers, key recommendations are formulated for actors in Ugandan refugee response with regards to existing technologies, flexible finance options, supply chain, and PUE in livelihood programming.
Year 2023
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14 Report

Productive Use of Energy in Uganda’s Refugee Response

Authors U-Learn Uganda
Description
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 body of documentation highlights the advances in PUE in Uganda, with a focus on refugee settlements, and looks at the main challenges. From identified main barriers, key recommendations are formulated for actors in Ugandan refugee response with regards to existing technologies, flexible finance options, supply chain, and PUE in livelihood programming.
Year 2023
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15 Report

Mobile TVET programming in the Uganda refugee response

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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This case study provides a deeper understanding of how the employment of Mobile Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programming in refugee response addresses some of the barriers faced by last-mile populations in accessing traditional TVET opportunities. It shares learning from the Uganda-based NGO-Africa Non-profit Chore’s (ANCHOR) successful mobile TVET program through its “Refugee and Host Community Access and Innovation in Skills for Employment” (RAISE) project in an isolated part of Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in north-western Uganda. The study highlights the advantages and challenges of implementing a mobile TVET approach, as well as how it can support refugees, host community members, and other vulnerable groups in accessing education and the right to work and be self-reliant, both while they remain in Uganda or on their eventual return home.
Year 2023
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16 Report

Mobile TVET programming in the Uganda refugee response

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This case study provides a deeper understanding of how the employment of Mobile Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programming in refugee response addresses some of the barriers faced by last-mile populations in accessing traditional TVET opportunities. It shares learning from the Uganda-based NGO-Africa Non-profit Chore’s (ANCHOR) successful mobile TVET program through its “Refugee and Host Community Access and Innovation in Skills for Employment” (RAISE) project in an isolated part of Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in north-western Uganda. The study highlights the advantages and challenges of implementing a mobile TVET approach, as well as how it can support refugees, host community members, and other vulnerable groups in accessing education and the right to work and be self-reliant, both while they remain in Uganda or on their eventual return home.
Year 2023
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17 Report

Exploring the challenges faced by formal refugee-owned businesses in Uganda

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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This brief explores the challenges faced by formal refugee-owned businesses in Palabek and Nakivale refugee settlements, including limited access to information on official business registration, high costs of registration, and a lack of standardization in the registration process. The findings and recommendations in this evidence brief are especially important as Uganda’s refugee response seeks to shift towards more sustainable methods to deal with forced displacement and support refugees’ self-reliance.
Year 2023
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18 Report

Agricultural Value Chains Strategic Positioning Paper

Year 2023
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19 Working Paper

Uganda Refugee Response Financial Literacy Training Minimum Standards

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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The Financial Literacy Training (FLT) minimum standards were developed by the Uganda Inter-Agency Cash Working Group (CWG) in collaboration with the CWG Financial Literacy Training Technical Core Team for training providers and FLT implementers in Uganda’s refugee response. These minimum standards look at the basic content and practices necessary for a training to qualify as a FLT. They cover aspects of FLT like planning and delivery of the training, monitoring and evaluation, and others. These standards are developed to contribute to the promotion of FLT, and ultimately self-reliance in Uganda’s refugee response.
Year 2023
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20 Report

Labour Market Assessments covering refugee hosting districts in Uganda – A desk review

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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This desk review highlights key information from 25 documents about labour markets in the 13 refugee-hosting districts of Uganda. The findings are presented in relation to three main themes: 1) labour supply; 2) labour demand; and 3) training to match the available skills with the demand.
Year 2022
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21 Report

Informing the Uganda refugee response Common Cash Approach – a technical brief

Authors U-Learn Uganda
Description
This technical brief informs CVA donors, policy makers, implementers including humanitarian actors and Financial Service Providers (FSPs), and the Inter-Agency Cash Working Group (CWG) about the Common Cash Approach in the Uganda refugee response and shares recommendations from recent Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) evidence.
Year 2022
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22 Report

DIGITAL SAVINGS GROUPS - A Learning brief

Authors , U-Learn Uganda
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The Digital Savings Group Learning brief offers critical reflections on whether a savings group in the Uganda refugee response is ready to go digital, on the objectives for pursuing digitisation/digitalisation, and on key challenges in making the shift. The DSG Learning Brief was developed in collaboration with the Uganda Inter-Agency Cash Working Group (CWG), the Livelihoods and Resilience Sector Working Group (LRSWG), and UNCDF as part of an on-going Financial Inclusion Learning Review series.
Year 2022
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23 Report

Patterns and Potential of Private Sector Engagement in Strengthening Refugee Livelihoods and Resilience

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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As the need to integrate private sector actors in the Ugandan refugee response continues to grow, a number of key points shape the conversation on moving PSE forward in Uganda, especially; More cross-sectoral and equitable partnerships that take advantage of the varied experiences and skills that different actors bring. Need for broader information sharing on the opportunities, gaps, and success stories of PSE in refugee response. Flexible financing that incentivizes impact and de-risks new initiatives is also promoted as an enabler of PSE More stringent impact assessments of PSE activities Strengthening of an accountability mechanism that ensures ethical engagement. This desk review collated the body of existing literature on refugee response PSE to create a widely available pool of knowledge that supports evidence-based decisions and practices in the Uganda refugee response. It covers 17 reports from Uganda-based refugee response implementers or relevant to the Uganda context.
Year 2022
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24 Report

Uganda Refugee response Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) user perspectives – Research brief

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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This brief presents the summarised findings of the study on Financial Services and Humanitarian Mechanisms in the Uganda Refugee Response: An Assessment of User Perspectives in Uganda. The assessment intends to inform actors and key stakeholders in Uganda’s refugee response about peoples’ existing skills, past experiences, and aid delivery preferences. as well the barriers they face when receiving humanitarian payments. The data was collected at settlement level for refugees and district level for host communities.
Year 2022
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25 Report

Financial Services in the Uganda Refugee Response – An assessment of users’ perspectives

Authors U-Learn Uganda
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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 preferences of refugee communities when it comes to provision of Financial Services. The report provides a robust evidence base on the existing skills and past experiences of the target population — as well as their preferences and barriers — to accessing digital financial services. The insight into user preferences shared in this assessment ensure that interventions take into account the perspectives of the populations they affect and intend to benefit prior to making decisions about shifting aid delivery modes.
Year 2022
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26 Report

Financial literacy training in Uganda’s refugee response – A Learning brief

Authors U-Learn Uganda,
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The Financial Literacy Training (FLT) Learning Brief draws together experiences and lessons learned from the U-Learn Financial Literacy Training analysis, the FLT discussion paper and a learning event. It provides an overview of FLT practices and experiences in Uganda and includes recommendations that were made at the learning event and in discussions with key stakeholders.
Year 2021
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27 Report

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