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Appeal Summary
This appeal has been developed by Inter-Agency partners involved in emergency contingency planning and the Uganda Country Refugee Response (UCRRP) 2022-2025. It covers a six-month period from April to September 2025 and aims to support a coordinated emergency response to the recent influx of 55,000 new arrivals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This appeal will address the needs of the 55,000 new arrivals and an additional 25,000 expected to arrive over the next six months from the DRC.
The emergency response involves the participation of 07 UN agencies, 15 international NGOs, and 02 national partners. Partners are appealing for USD 44 million for the DRC situation. Given the severe underfunding of the refugee response in Uganda (the UCRRP was only 46% funded in 2024, out of the total funding needs of USD 857.9 million) additional contributions are urgently needed. These funds will address the emergency needs of new arrivals and help upgrade the reception capacity and basic infrastructure in refugee settlements. This appeal targets the most urgent needs within the UCRRP, which initially projected the reception of 145,500 new arrivals from DRC, South Sudan, and Sudan in 2025. However, close to half of this target has already been met in the first quarter of the year, necessitating immediate support to sustain operations and infrastructure. It is important to note that despite this appeal being concentrated on the DRC, 86,000 new arrivals have crossed the border so far this year from the DRC, South Sudan, and Sudan. Additional emergency funding will help reduce the pressure to divert funding from other refugees in need.
The financial requirements included under this emergency appeal are a subset of the overall financial requirements of the Uganda chapter of the Regional Refugee Response Plan (R-RRP) for the DRC situation and the Uganda Refugee Response Plan (UCRRP). As such, there is full alignment between the Inter-Agency Emergency Appeal and the DRC RRP, with the latter covering these new arrivals alongside some 560,000 DRC refugees and asylum seekers who were in Uganda prior to the current crisis.