Â鶹ÊÓƵ can provide first-time access to financial accounts and help governments do the same. This series explores how Country Offices have enabled digital financial inclusion and women¡¯s empowerment through cash transfers.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Uganda Country Office to better understand the effectiveness of self-reliance and livelihoods strategies, their impact, and identify lessons learned to inform Â鶹ÊÓƵ programmes and contribute to the next Country Strategy Plan.
This fourth edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional Achievements reflects Â鶹ÊÓƵ's capacities in numerous domains, among them emergency preparedness and response, food system, gender, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, innovation and digitalization, staff wellness, environment, knowledge management, and evidence generation. This publication additionally celebrates our work and the difference we make.
The strategic evaluation of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work on nutrition and addressing HIV and AIDS policies serves the dual purpose of accountability and learning, particularly the latter.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ spends more than US$745 million annually in East Africa. This spending is vital to the humanitarian operations, and also affects local economies, potentially creating large income and production impacts.
To support increased emphasis on food systems approach, and in complement of the Local Economy Wide Impact Evaluation (LEWIE), Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau for East Africa (RBN) commissioned this ¡°thematic evaluation of supply chain outcomes in the food system in Eastern Africa¡±.
This strategy supports the Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa, and
the countries in the region, to capture, manage, use, and share knowledge emerging from their Country Strategic Plans (CSP) implementation effectively and efficiently.
This third edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional Achievements celebrates our work and our impact, highlighting Â鶹ÊÓƵs capacities in a wide range of areas, including emergency preparedness and response, food system, gender, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, innovation and digitalization, staff wellness, environment and knowledge management and evidence generation.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa in Nairobi (RBN) and covers the period from January 2016 to December 2020. It was carried out in 2021.
This second edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional eBook highlights and celebrates Â鶹ÊÓƵ work in Eastern Africa and demonstrates Â鶹ÊÓƵ capacities in various areas including: emergency preparedness and response, food system, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, and food security analysis.
This report is a product of the first phase of the Social Protection Learning Facility partnership and focuses on lessons learned from Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work in 2020 that are important for the social protection sector in the East Africa region going forward.
While Uganda¡¯s Karamoja region registered development gains recently, overall, since independence, there have been significant failures. Â鶹ÊÓƵ contracted Development Pathways to investigate the situation and generate ideas for innovative solutions.
A brief on the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerability and social protection responses in both rural and urban contexts in East Africa.
This brief considers some of the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on building the resilience of households to climate-related shocks and stresses in East Africa.
As COVID-19 spreads rapidly in Uganda, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is supporting the country in meeting the humanitarian needs of 1.2 million refugees, as well as
malnourished children and women and school children in the Karamoja region. In addition, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is providing supply chain support to contribute to the government¡¯s efforts to slow the spread of the virus while protecting livelihoods
These challenging times, brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic, compel humanitarian and development agencies like Â鶹ÊÓƵ to demonstrate innovation, efficiency, and perseverance to keep meeting the needs of vulnerable populations through the delivery of quality services. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been working closely with the Government of Uganda and its other partners to ensure that the delivery of essential services such as food and cash, as well as logistical support, continue unhindered and compliant with Government directives during this unprecedented global pandemic.
Here are just of few of the ways Â鶹ÊÓƵ has continued to support Ugandans, and those seeking refuge in Uganda, towards Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger during the COVID-19 response
With the scale up of cash transfers in refugee settlements to improve dignity and impact benefits to the people we serve, there is a need to intensify financial literacy initiatives. Financial inclusion and financial literacy among refugee settlements and host communities is imperative as most development partners in Uganda are moving to cash transfer programming. Increasing the financial capability of refugees and refugee hosting communities and ensuring that they are better equipped to make sound financial decisions, as well as helping them effectively interact with financial service providers and achieve their financial goals, is why the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in Uganda came together to develop a financial education training toolkit customized to the needs of migrant populations in Uganda building on existing learning and resources developed thus far.
The Uganda Vulnerability Refugee Assessment provides a comprehensive picture of vulnerability among refugee families and the socio-economic dynamics in the settlements. The study was commissioned by the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Government of Uganda.
The data collection was conducted in October 2017 to cover a total of 18 settlements across ten districts.
Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s smallholder development programme to increase the capacity of smallholder farmers, with focus on women and youth, to improve agricultural incomes and diversify livelihoods. Â鶹ÊÓƵ works with AMS, the Government of Uganda, development partners and the private sector to improve the food and market systems so that the farmers have access to sell in local markets, improve the quality and diversify produce to increase income for investment in agriculture and other livelihoods. AMS in Uganda focuses on capacity building activities around Farming as a Business, Agri-Finance, Post-Harvest Handling and Management and Collective Marketing.
