How Food Security Organizations In Uganda Managed At Times Of Covid!
Uganda remains Africa’s biggest refugee-hosting country. Despite reduced financing, the sheer number of displaced persons has put enormous strain on humanitarian operations. Its refugee response has moved to accommodate longer-term needs, particularly initiatives that focus on livelihood as well as resilience.
Nevertheless, basic immediate needs, like food insecure households water, and hygiene, including health services, remain critical in both settlements and host communities.
This COVID-19 pandemic dominated the refugee scenario in 2020, with crossing closures in March drastically decreasing the number of new entrants. Nutritional diversity and malnutrition levels somewhat worsened over the year as commerce, transportation, and livelihood activities were restricted.
Food prices, on the other hand, have stayed largely stable due to bumper harvests. Climate change is changing rainfall patterns throughout Uganda, making agricultural productivity more unpredictable.
Operation Against Hunger will be launched in 2020. Across five refugee communities, Uganda's nutrition program reached 81,958 children including pregnant women, providing supplementary food to 59,750 small children as well as new moms to prevent malnutrition while treating 13,768 severely malnourished youngsters, pregnant women, young mothers.
Food security organizations in Uganda took care of healthcare facilities and caregiving groups formed inside the settlements offered these services. Hygiene, cleanliness, food preparations, home gardening, healthy eating, health-service referral channels, and gender-based violence were among the subjects covered.
In addition to increasing self-reliance and resilience, our food production and livelihoods programs provided 53,984 people with free meals, agricultural inputs, training, trade facilitation, the establishment of savings but also loan associations, income-generating actions, skill-building, and small business start-up assistance.
