Investigate Snapshot – Dollars transfers & foodstuff safety amid COVID-19 – Uganda

This Investigate Snapshot summarises conclusions of the research undertaken as section of the R2HC-funded study Income transfers and COVID-19: activities from Kiryandongo, Uganda

This research targeted on South Sudanese refugees registered in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, in Uganda. It explored the 8-thirty day period impacts of large, just one-off income transfers on refugee foods protection during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The research observed that one particular-off funds transfers did not accomplish food items protection for all refugees- but do provide reasonable safety from meals insecurity. Food stuff insecurity should be thought of together with assessment of long run challenges of COVID-19 an infection in the settlement.

Though humanitarian businesses significantly give a ‘cash’ alternative for monthly aid, in lieu of in-form support, these organizations have not distributed large, a person-off transfers. This analyze assessed the one particular-calendar year impact of the 1st attempt of this sort of a transfer — $1000 from GiveDirectly. When the pandemic struck, cell phone surveys were being launched to glimpse at a wide range of results, which includes food stuff protection and responses to COVID-19 general public wellness measures. The conclusions suggest that hard cash transfers enable boost problems, but do not carry households to an suitable stage of meals protection.