Filling the gap or taking the lead? Refugee led organisations in Uganda
Authored by refugee leaders in Uganda for Fennia’s special issue on humanitarian localisation and accountability, this reflection asserts that our voices must be heard wherever displacement is analysed and policy is set. Nothing about us without us. Refugee-Led Organisations are not only first resp...
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2025-06-01
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Authored by refugee leaders in Uganda for Fennia’s special issue on humanitarian localisation and accountability, this reflection asserts that our voices must be heard wherever displacement is analysed and policy is set. Nothing about us without us. Refugee-Led Organisations are not only first responders. We are educators, health promoters, peacebuilders and advocates. Our initiatives reach communities sooner, cost less and carries trust that international programmes rarely match. In this piece we argue that what we lack is not another training manual but the resources and authority that match with the responsibilities we already shoulder. This is needed if the humanitarian localisation agenda is to be anything more than a slogan.
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| spelling | doaj-art-c27115ef5bf847378dc34646a5dde4142025-08-20T02:07:52ZengGeographical Society of FinlandFennia: International Journal of Geography1798-56172025-06-012031Filling the gap or taking the lead? Refugee led organisations in Uganda Keluel Agook 0Kuol Arou1Siham Ahmed 2Joyeux Mugisho 3Simon Marot Touloung4Hilde Refstie5Refugee Led Organisation Network (RELON) UgandaRefugee Led Organisation Network (RELON) Uganda Somali Women Union UgandaPeople for Peace and Defense of Rights Uganda (PPDR)African Youth Action Network (AYAN)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Geograpy Authored by refugee leaders in Uganda for Fennia’s special issue on humanitarian localisation and accountability, this reflection asserts that our voices must be heard wherever displacement is analysed and policy is set. Nothing about us without us. Refugee-Led Organisations are not only first responders. We are educators, health promoters, peacebuilders and advocates. Our initiatives reach communities sooner, cost less and carries trust that international programmes rarely match. In this piece we argue that what we lack is not another training manual but the resources and authority that match with the responsibilities we already shoulder. This is needed if the humanitarian localisation agenda is to be anything more than a slogan. https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/162431 |
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