Faits saillants

• 14 zones de santé en Province Orientale ont besoin de fonds pour organiser la riposte contre la rougeole.
• Les défis logistiques rendent difficile l’assistance aux réfugiés centrafricains dans le Bas-Uele.
• L’activisme des présumés LRA sur l’axe Dungu – Faradje provoque des mouvements de population.

KAMPALA, Uganda, April 15 (UNHCR) – Few customers come to the simply named Beauty Salon in Kampala's Kisenyi slum, but for refugee owner Rosette Wabenga, it is still a dream come true.

"I am a very lucky woman to have this shop," Wabenga says. "Words cannot express how grateful I am to UNHCR. They have helped me fulfil my dream," she adds, referring to a small-business loan that the refugee agency helped secure.

In the heart of the Rwenzori ‘Mountain of the Moon’ valley in Western Uganda, rural coffee farmers now export organic, fair trade certified Arabica coffee overseas. In 2011, the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) awarded Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Society (Bukonzo) an expansion grant to guarantee that local premium coffee from 3,500 producer members reached international markets.

HIGHLIGHTS

• The African Development Bank has allocated $140.5 million to resilience efforts.

• Peace agreements for DRC and Sudan/South Sudan have been signed amid continuing concerns.

• Refugees continue to flee DRC and Sudan. Some 12,000 Somalis left Kenya for Somalia despite challenging conditions.

• Food security has generally improved across the region, though 16 million people are still facing crisis and emergency conditions.

• Peace holds in Kenya voting despite some violence.

KAWEMPE, Uganda, March 14 (UNHCR) – Rosette Akaliybo, a 37-year-old Congolese refugee, sits quietly at a wooden table with three men, each young enough to be her son, doing what many would consider a most unusual job.

"This is my first official job in Kampala," says the single mother of two as she stuffs 10 sanitary napkins into MakaPad's signature green packaging at the company plant in Kawempe. It is the firm's biggest production site of Africa's first hand-made hygiene product made from local materials.

SITUATIONAL OVERVIEW

SITUATIONAL OVERVIEW

SITUATIONAL OVERVIEW

The Guide on Livelihoods and Economic Recovery Programming in Crisis and Post-Crisis Situations provides a practical “how to” resource for development practitioners, particularly those in UNDP Country Offices. By sharing the knowledge and experience that UNDP and its partners have gained over the years, the Guide aims to facilitate effective and sustainable programming for livelihoods and economic recovery in crisis and post-crisis situations. It will be most useful at the onset of programming, especially in preparations for high-level discussions with national authorities, resource mobilization, project and programme development, and the provision of training and technical and policy advice.