EU announces €24 million in Uganda amid coronavirus pandemic. EU humanitarian support in Uganda goes hand in hand with longer-term development strategies to find durable solutions and support the self-reliance of refugees and their inclusion in social protection schemes. https://ec.europa.eu/echo/news/eu-announces-24-million-uganda-amid-coronavirus-pandemic_en

In a press release, UNHCR are WFP warn that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply chain challenges, rising food prices and loss of income due to COVID19 - threaten to leave millions of refugees across Africa without food.

WB in cooperation with UNHCR concluded the first round of surveys Monitoring COVID-19 Impact on Households (refugee and host community) and Firms in Kenya. https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/kenya/brief/monitoring-covid-19-impact-on-households-and-firms-in-kenya

A policy note on “Economic Inclusion for the Poorest and COVID-19: Adaptation and Early Priorities for Medium- and Longer-Term Recovery” has been released by PEI, available here. https://www.jobsanddevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/economic-inclusion-for-the-poorest-and-COVID-19.pdf

In celebration of World Refugee Day 2020, UNHCR’s global brand of artisanal products crafted by refugees, MADE51, launched their online shop https://shop.made51.org/ . The shop includes numerous refugee artists from East Africa.

Refugees Are 60 Percent More Likely To Be Financially Impacted By COVID-19, New Research Finds https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2020/7/6/locked-down-and-left-behind-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-refugees-economic-inclusion?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpFeVptRXdZelpqWVRCaiIsInQiOiJCbEY4MElFTThmMnFFcmFrdDlHd0Y0MzY2a2s5UEJSUkdRME5YSWlQczFZMkQ4Vm1uWExYdXhHXC9qQXR5bXlBa3RwbVRHU3pQc1k0SE03NW1vZVJ1UXhPVVBienVTemtuODd1ZXkwUGRmQ055R1A4MVRTZ09tTVk1emtBMmNWXC8xIn0%3D

In a high-level event, UNHCR sought sustained support for Afghan refugees and refugee-hosting countries as support becomes even more urgent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and a deepening regional socio-economic crisis.

UNHCR launched a global online platform on the protection impact of temporary measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including access to territory and national asylum systems.

UNHCR and partners started distributing mobile phones and SIM cards to over 8,000 Burundian refugees at Mulongwe settlement in South Kivu Province. It will allow them to receive cash for food assistance via electronic payments.

UNHCR and partners continued to provide shelter assistance to over 3,000 vulnerable internally displaced households in Beni, Lubero and Rutshuru Territories, North Kivu Province.