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In May 2022, three members of staff of the Office of the Prime Minister attached to the Palabek refugee settlement in Lamwo district were interdicted over their alleged involvement in the...

Obongi’s resident district commissioner Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka has raised a red flag over the delay in the construction of projects under the Development Response to Displacement Impact Project...

There have been delays in contracting community facilitators in Garissa county.

News and Press Release in English on Djibouti and 3 other countries about Protection and Human Rights; published on 13 Mar 2023 by IGAD

There is growing recognition that natural resource exploitation and environmental pressures can fuel violent conflict. Compounding this threat, situations of conflict and environmental stress also have major gender implications.

Maps and the use of geographical information systems (GIS) are also key tools in understanding the value of ‘unseen’ resources such as groundwater, a topic that will be at the forefront of the discussions among international water experts at the upcoming World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.

<p>June 29, 2022 (WASHINGTON) – The World Bank has approved the second phase of the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project in the Horn of Africa (DRDIP II) for $180 million in International Development Association (IDA) financing to help Ethiopia improve access to basic social and economic services, expand livelihood opportunities, and enhance environmental management for refugees and their host communities.</p>

“We must dare to invent the future.” The Government of Uganda (GoU) is embracing Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara’s dictum. Even as Uganda remains at the center of Africa’s largest refugee crisis, hosting almost 1.6 million refugees and asylum seekers (the fifth largest number in the world), the GoU approaches the crisis as a development opportunity. Its Displacement Crisis Response Mechanism (DCRM) facilitates rapid scale-up of public services in poor and vulnerable host...

This study assesses the impacts of hosting refugees on the livelihood strategies of households in host communities focusing on diversification and agricultural commercialization. It uses a dataset of 3390 households in Ethiopia, the third-largest refugee-hosting country in Africa

This MoU is indeed a strategy of the IGG office to foster collaborative approaches with both public and private sector actors