{"id":2879,"date":"2022-07-13T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:49:38","slug":"what-worries-refugees-in-uganda-most-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/2022\/07\/13\/what-worries-refugees-in-uganda-most-about-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"What Worries Refugees in Uganda Most About COVID-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in previous blogs, in the financial diaries with refugees in Uganda we implemented some COVID-19-related questions just before and just after the lockdown on 30th<\/sup>\u00a0March was imposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The largest worries were that \u2018The prices will go up\u2019 (68%), \u2018The WFP food support may no longer arrive\u2019 (51%), and \u2018the health services will not be able to deal with the disease\u2019 (40%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth worry was \u2018The disease will make us ill\u2019 which was mentioned by only 18 percent of the respondents. These answers may demonstrate that refugees are in normal circumstances already struggling to survive and they are actually more worried about the lockdown measures and what they will do to their normal ability to survive. Catching the disease is at this stage only a secondary concern.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fig 1: \u201cToday a sack of charcoal at Nakivale costs 70,000. No charcoal is still delivered from Tanzania.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Several refugees felt that the answer categories we gave them did not sufficiently describe their worries. Several selected \u201cother\u201d and specified that their worry was \u2018death\u2019 (six people used that exact formulation) and another four respondents specified their worry as \u2018hunger\u2019 or \u2018famine\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general, there was considerable worry about the arrival of WFP food as well as the fact that WFP had announced it will reduce the food distribution by 30 percent. Where the refugees used to receive 31,000 UGX (8.22 USD) equivalent in food per person per month, this will be 21,700 UGX (5.76USD) per person from April onwards. WFP had to take that measure because donor funding had been declining for the 4.5 million refugees in the Horn of Africa. It is most unfortunate that this now coincides with the severe economic impact of Covid-19 and the lock-down.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fig 2: What worries diaries respondents most about Covid-19<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 3: This shop is allowed to stay open, but may run out of supplies soon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Some comments by our field researchers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis respondent standing in front of the shop next to the bread shelf told me that bread supply is irregular since the lockdown. She said that she opens the shop for a few hours these days; because police kick the door when she closes it halfway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes, even at Nakivale some businessmen and women close all day and sit in front of the shop but the time a customer reaches, they enter with him like a visitor and sell. One of them told me \u201cWe cannot survive if we don\u2019t do so. This is called the new system and in case you get someone in need, please tell him that we are using the new system here\u201d. Keep it up!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This blog is written using data from the RISE project, funded by Opportunity International, with consulting services from PHB.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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As mentioned in previous blogs, in the financial diaries with refugees in Uganda we implemented some COVID-19-related questions just before and just after the lockdown on 30th\u00a0March was imposed. The largest worries were that \u2018The prices will go up\u2019 (68%), \u2018The WFP food support may no longer arrive\u2019 (51%), and \u2018the health services will not […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}