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Uganda: Need to focus on returnees and remaining IDPs in transition to development

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This displaced family in Itirihwa Camp, Adjumani District, stayed in the camp to educate their children, as no school functions in their area of origin, September 2010 (Photo: Will Boase for USAID/OTI/NUTI)
  • Country Statistics
  • Latest IDP figure:
  • About 30,000
  • Number of refugees:
  • (Originating from the country)
    5,680 (UNHCR, as of December 2011)
  • Total Population:
  • 32.7 million
Since the 2006 signing of a cease-fire agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army there has been significant return of those displaced by conflict in northern Uganda. The overwhelming majority of the 1.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs) who lived in camps at the height of the crisis have returned to their areas of origin or resettled in new locations. Driven by their cultural ties to the land and the region, most have opted for return. The majority of the 30,000 still confined to camps lack financial resources to move home, are aged, disabled or unwell or have no land to return to. Support for recovery and development in areas to which IDPs have returned has been insufficient. Returnees have faced continuing difficulties due to inadequate basic services and limited support to rebuild their livelihoods. The return process has been marred by land conflicts, sometimes leading to violence. (...)

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24 May 2012



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Internal Displacement Profile

"Background and Causes of Displacement","Background and Causes of Displacement"
"IDP Population Figures","Number of IDPs","disaggregated by age and sex where data are available","Locations of IDP populations"
"Physical Security and Integrity","Physical security","dignity","mental and moral integrity "
"Basic Necessities of Life","Food and Water","Medical Care and Sanitation"
"Property, Livelihoods, Education and Other Economic, Social and Cultural Rights","Land and Property","Education"
"Family Life, Participation, Access to Justice, Documentation, and Other Civil and Political Rights","Access to Justice"
"Protection of Special Categories of IDPs (Age, Gender, Diversity)","Gender - Women and Men ","Boys","girls and adolescents ","Older persons ","Physically and mentally disabled "
"Durable Solutions","Documented returns","settled locally and settled elsewhere","Prospects for and obstacles to voluntary return","local integration and settlement elsewhere","Support for return integration and reintegration"
"National and International Response","National response","International Response"

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