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OPM strategizing to ably whip public servants, business May 11, 2021 [Sponsored article]  After assessing itself as having achieved 95 per cent of its respective targets in the NRM Manifesto 2016-2021, the Office of the Prime Minister looks ahead to restructuring itself for purposes of scoring even greater heights. Moses Kizige, the state minister for Karamoja Affairs, said this while presenting the report on the implementation of the NRM Manifesto 2016-2021 Commitments and the presidential Strategic Guidelines and Directives for 2016-2021 on Wedn...

Daily Monitor Monday May 10 2021 Summary The refugee response in Uganda is supported heavily by the UNHCR, which provides the bulk of the funding in the spirit of international solidarity and burden sharing. Advertisement Many people often ask how one gets refugee status in Uganda. Let me give you a few highlights of that process based on a recent visit I made to to Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Isingiro District. When people flee their home countries in search of safety and security and arrive say in Nakivale, they are first recieved at a facility called a reception centre, where their biod...

Management Information System (MIS) - Social Protection SC8 Arua Posted by Detailed Justification: The Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) Programme is a flagship programme for the Arua Area Office (AAO) and of strategic significance to WFP in Uganda. In this programme, WFP plays an “enabler” role to District Local Governments (DLGs) for six refugee hosting districts (Adjumani, Koboko, Madi Okollo, Obongi, Terego and Yumbe) and national government agencies through system strengthening for better results, greater ownership, and sustainable outcomes. The CSSP supports two work streams:...

China Daily Global / 2021-03 / 01 / Page001 Horn of Africa programs offer aid amid pandemic By Lewis Ndichu | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-03-01 00:00 The Horn of Africa region accounts for some of the world's most protracted cases of displacement amid high numbers of COVID-19 cases, hosting about 70 percent of Africa's refugees and close to one-fifth of nearly 26 million refugees worldwide. In particular, the region－consisting of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Suda...

Machine learning in Uganda brings the power of risk financing to strengthen refugee and host community resilience Photo: Dorte Verner “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” This statement, by Professor Cornell West, drives a more difficult question: how do we measure and support ‘commitment’ between social groups so that a relationship’s loyalty, love, patience, and persistence is fostered? The cost of responding to violent conflict rather than preventing it is stag...