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🌍 Mapping Climate Hazards Across Uganda’s Refugee-Hosting Districts

Uganda, host to one of Africa’s largest refugee populations, is facing increasingly unpredictable climate hazards, including floods and prolonged droughts. With significant impacts on shelters, agricultural productivity, and infrastructure, these climate risks are particularly acute in refugee-hosting sub-counties, where land, water, and services are already constrained.

To better inform climate-resilient and localized planning, IMPACT, thought its REACH initiative, has conducted Climate Hazard Assessments across refugee-hosting districts in the Northern/West Nile and Southwestern regions.

Geospatial and remote sensing analysis highlighted distinct climate patterns, hazard susceptibility, and exposure dynamics, underlining the need for targeted, context-specific action to strengthen resilience and preparedness.

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These analyses were funded by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - FCDO

Across today’s major crises, protection risks for children are increasing at an alarming pace. In 2024, 520 million children, one in five globally, were living in conflict zones, the highest number ever recorded.

Beyond violence and displacement, children are increasingly exposed to child labour, family separation, recruitment by armed groups, and growing mental health needs that risk shaping their futures for years to come.

The trend is clearly visible in our data, notably in the Multisectoral Needs Assessments (MSNAs) — as well as in evidence gathered by numerous partners across crises.

➤ Attacks on schools and hospitals continue to rise;

➤ Economic pressure is forcing families into harmful coping strategies, including child marriage and child labour;

➤ Psychosocial distress among children is becoming widespread but remains largely under-addressed;

These findings highlight a simple reality: child protection cannot be treated as a standalone priority. It must be integrated across humanitarian responses, from education and food security to health and livelihoods.

Protecting children also means addressing the drivers of these risks, including conflict, poverty, human rights violations, displacement, and lack of access to essential services.

Without stronger locally led child-centred humanitarian programming, an entire generation of conflict-affected children risks being left behind. Protecting children today is not only a life-saving imperative but also an investment in the future stability, recovery, and resilience of crisis-affected communities.

🌐Access the Child Protection Brief: https://buff.ly/CX454JF
🌐A generation at risk: protecting children in conflict zones Article: https://buff.ly/X33WCg0
🌐 Save the Children International Report - Stop the War on Children: https://buff.ly/ckjA6jC
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