Fill the Nutrient Gap Uganda: Refugee Settlements Summary Report
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2019.
Language Note
English
Description
20 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR2487
Summary
Uganda hosts a total of 1,190,922 refugees (December 2018). Around 68 percent (790,000) are South Sudanese, 25 percent (310,000) from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the other 7 percent (90,000) are predominantly from Burundi, Somalia and Rwanda. The majority of refugees are children under the age of 18 (725,000), and around 600,000 of all refugees are girls and women. The FNG process in the refugee settlements ran from November 2017 to April 2018. The analysis comprised a comprehensive literature review of available secondary data sources in combination with linear programming (LP) using the Cost of the Diet (CotD) software. The aim was to understand context-specific barriers to adequate nutrient intake and to model potential interventions to improve access to nutrients, particularly from nutritious foods.
