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- Horn of Africa
Uganda is home to the largest refugee population in Africa, primarily consisting of individuals who have fled from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country's progressive refugee policies play a crucial role in accommodating this substantial refugee population.
In the Northern West Nile region of Uganda, which witnessed a significant surge in refugee arrivals in the last few years, our objective is to work with the Government of Uganda in a number of sectors benefiting both refugees and host communities. This approach ensures that both refugees and host communities benefit from our efforts, in line with the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
Our objective is to equip refugees and host communities with essential tools through actions that develop job skills and livelihoods, while also ensuring access to essential services like education and clean water. This multifaceted approach aims to address the complex challenges faced by refugees and their host communities, fostering sustainable integration and coexistence.
In addition to these efforts, we are committed to addressing challenges including climate change, demographic pressures and environmental stresses affecting the lives of both refugees and host communities in refugee-hosting districts in both West Nile and South West Uganda. The primary objectives of these interventions are to combat increased environmental and ecosystems degradation, protect and restore natural resources, enhance sustainable energy access, and bolster local capacity for environment and climate action.
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National programmes
Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP): Support Programme to the Refugee Settlements and Host Communities in Northern Uganda (SPRS-NU)
The overall objective of the action is to reduce the risk of violent conflict between host communities and refugees in the refugee-hosting districts of Northern Uganda, namely Adjumani, Arua, Kiryandongo and Yumbe.
Strengthening Social Cohesion and Stability in Slum Populations
The specific objective ties in with the first, second and fourth objectives of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund, that is to provide employment opportunities and basic local services, as well as preventing conflict in marginalised communities in urban slums of Uganda.
Response to increased demand on Government Service and creation of economic opportunities in Uganda (RISE)
The specific objectives are 1) to strengthen local authorities' coordination and development & contingency planning, as well as local authority-led service delivery to refugees and the host populations and 2) to increase economic self-reliance of refugees and host populations.
Security, Protection, and Economic Empowerment (SUPREME)
This project aims to improve overall safety and economic well-being for refugees and host communities in Northern Uganda.
Response to Increased Environmental Degradation and Promotion of Alternative Energy Sources in Refugee Hosting Districts
The project has the following specific objectives:1.
Regional programmes
Strengthening the ability of IGAD to promote resilience in the Horn of Africa
The specific objectives of the project are: (I) to strengthen IGAD’s capacity for coordinating and facilitating the implementation of IDDRSI to build resilience, as a means of addressing the root causes of vulnerability, forced displacement and irregular migration; and (II) to promote reform in IGAD
Better Migration Management Programme
The overall objective is to improve migration management in the region, and in particular to curb the trafficking of human beings and the smuggling of migrants within and from the Horn of Africa.
Research and Evidence Facility
The specific objectives will be to collate, synthesize and disseminate the outcomes of existing and new research and evidence related to instability, irregular migration and forced displacement in the Horn of Africa; to communicate the outcomes of existing and new research and evidence to, and share
Towards Free Movement and Transhumance in the IGAD region
The specific objectives of the project are:(I) to support the process of adoption, ratification and domestication of the IGAD Protocols on Free Movement of Persons and on Transhumance by IGAD Member States upon their adoption by IGAD Council of Ministers, along with complementary measures to...
Facility on Sustainable and Dignified Return and Reintegration in support of the Khartoum Process
The overall objective of the project is the following: to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and rights-based migration through the facilitation of dignified voluntary return and the implementation of development-focused and sustainable reintegration policies and processes.
Monitoring and Learning System for the EUTF Horn of Africa
Specific Objective 1: to establish and implement a Monitoring and Learning System which monitors and reports on the overall progress of the EUTF Horn of Africa window against EUTF strategic objectives, Horn of Africa policy priorities and EUTF principles of interventions.
IGAD Promoting Peace and Stability in the Horn of Africa Region (IPPSHAR)
The following three thematic objectives and one implementation effectiveness objective are identified to achieve the broader goal of peace and stability in the region:I.
Disrupting criminal trafficking and smuggling networks through increased anti-money laundering and financial investigation capacity in the Greater Horn of Africa
The specific objective is to better equip relevant country agencies to disrupt the traffickers and smugglers of human beings operating in the Greater Horn of Africa through efficient use of financial investigations and anti-money laundering approaches, including on tracing and seizing assets and...
Better Migration Management Programme Phase II
The second phase of the Better Migration Management programme aims to improve the management of safe, orderly and regular migration in the region and support national authorities in addressing the smuggling of migrants and the trafficking in human beings within and from the Horn of Africa.
CRRF DIRECT - Displacement responses through regional cooperation and technical exchange
The overall objective of the action is to increase the safety and well-being of displaced populations and their host communities and reduce inequalities between these groups.
CRRF: Inclusive Urban Development and Mobility
The overall objective is to increase the safety and well-being of displaced populations and their host communities living in urban or peri-urban settings and reduce inequalities between these groups.
Delivering durable solutions to forced displacement in the IGAD region through the implementation of the global compact on refugees (GCR)
The project's overall objective is to strengthen and implement the IGAD GCR process, thereby providing increased safety and well-being to displaced populations and host communities.
Cross-window programmes
Research and Evidence Facility for the Sahel and Lake Chad Region and the North of Africa
The specific objective is to conduct, synthesize, disseminate and make use of new and existing research on the drivers and dynamics of the root causes of instability, insecurity, irregular migration and forced displacement in West and North Africa and migration routes, and the most successful policy...
Technical Cooperation Facility
The overall objective is to increase the efficiency of the Trust Fund, through gender-and-rights-responsive technical assistance for the identification, formulation, evaluation, monitoring of and communication on trust fund interventions, including audits, evaluations/communication actions for this...
Protection and sustainable solutions for migrants and refugees along the Central Mediterranean route
The overall objective of the Action is to contribute to strengthen the governance of migration in the region and provide protection and sustainable solutions for migrants and refugees along the Central Mediterranean route.
Erasmus+ in West Africa and the Horn of Africa
The overall objective of the action is to promote sustainable development and ultimately contribute to poverty reduction by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professional manpower in West Africa and the Horn of Africa.
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