The minister for disaster preparedness and refugees Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refugees Hon. Eng. Hillary Onek Obalekor and Royal Danish Ambassador and her team have agreed on a 142 billion shilling funding support to the refugee refugees response and fulfillment of the Pledges from the Global Refugee Forum.
This project called “Uganda Refugee Resilience Initiative (URR)” that will run from 2024 to 2028.
According to minister Onek the project is meant to enhance climate resilience of women, men and youth in refugee and host communities.
This will promote inclusive, cohesive and environmentally sustainable development.
Uganda provides a home to 1.74 million refugees and asylum-seekers (September 2024).
Most refugees come from South Sudan (55%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (31%), Somalia (3%), Burundi (2%), Sudan (3%) and other nationalities (6%).
