AID EFFECTIVENESS AND LESSONS LEARNT AMONG TEENAGE MOTHERS IN BIDIBIDI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT
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Established in 2016 and receiving over 285,000 refugees, Bidibidi was marked as the largest refugee settlement in Uganda by 2018. The outbreak of Covid-19 generated a lot of aid for the refugees in the settlement but worsened the situation in the post pandemic period, especially among teenage mothers. Building on scholarship about aid and humanitarian work, this study advances the insights of the lived experiences and lessons learnt by teenage refugee mothers in the post-Covid-19 Bidibidi refugee settlement of north western Uganda. This study employed a qualitative method of research undertaken using snowball sampling to obtain interviews from 10 teenage mothers and 2 key informants from the UNHCR and the OPM respectively. The results of the study established a number of impacts ranging from economic for example; loss of property due to the increased theft cases, psychological effects including the fear of men from the girls to the extent that they have to move in groups to avoid rapists, and social impacts for example the closure of Rabita events that were aimed at helping each other to recover the property lost during the war. The study identified inadequate resources and limited timeline as key issues that bring about failed effectiveness and later compromise sustainability of aid among teenage mothers in the settlement. Increased attention on monitoring and evaluation from the office of the prime minister (OPM) and the UNHCR would be paramount to avoid duplication and project overlaps.
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Lejja-lejja meant the activity of moving with various commodities often including clothes, vegetables among others and looking for customers from one place to another.
Ibiris is a juba Arabic word used to mean satan or the devil.
2/November/2023: data obtained from the interpreter in one of the focus group discussions held at Ebenezer resting place
Tukul is the name given to the grass thatched houses established with in the refugee settlement
2/November/2023: Statement from one of the respondents in a focus group discussion
1/November/2023: Response from one of the teenage mothers who had been raped for two times, the first time she
did not conceive but the next time she conceived unfortunately the baby died after making just 1 year.
2/November/2023: Rabita association leader while presenting her point in a focus group discussion
3/November/2023: The respondent mentioned these insights after an in-depth interview with her realizing that she had given me wrong information at first due to fear. On the last day of the interviews after the Madam (Names are withheld) she lived with explained to her how important and confidential this study was it is then that she decided to open up and disclose all that she had in terms of lived experience.
2/November/2023: One of the teenage mothers had that to say in one of the Focus Group Discussions that were held in the settlement.
Accessed from: https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/yumbe-mother-remanded-for-killing-boiling-4-month-old-son-4315044
Lejja-lejja meant the activity of moving with various commodities often including clothes, vegetables among
others and looking for customers from one place to another.
Lejja-lejja meant the activity of moving with various commodities often including clothes, vegetables among
others and looking for customers from one place to another
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