How Close is Close? Assessing Uganda’s Progressive Refugee Policy in the Era of COVID-19

Marco d'Errico is an Economist with working experience with FAO, WB, and other international organizations, as well as teaching experience with University of Bologna, Italy and Rome La Sapienza, Italy. He has vast experience on impact evaluation of resilience and food security interventions mostly in protracted crisis countries.Donato Romano is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of the PhD Program in Development Economics and Local Systems – DELoS at the University of Florence, Italy. His current research interests include food and nutrition security analysis, with a focus on household vulnerability and resilience, and the analysis of the impact of climate change on conflicts and violence. He has been a consultant for many international organizations including FAO, IFAD, WFP and the World Bank. He is also a member of the Board of the European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE. He holds a PhD in Forest Economics and Policy from the University of Florence, Italy.Paul Winters is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. His research and teaching focus on rural poverty, food insecurity and climate change and the evaluation of policies and programs designed to address these issues. Prior to joining Notre Dame, he worked at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, Italy; American University in Washington, DC, USA; the Inter-American Development Bank, USA; the University of New England, Australia, and the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

• Introduction: Assessing Uganda’s Progressive Refugee Policy in the Era of COVID-19 1. Economic Integration between Refugee Settlements and Host Communities 2. Poverty Dynamics and Poverty Traps among Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda 3. Training Refugees: Lights and Shadows in the Context of the Self-Reliance Strategy Implemented in Uganda 4. Transfers as a Means to Mitigate COVID-19 Impacts on Food Security: Evidence from Refugee and Host Communities Uganda 5. Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda