Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report, Mid-Year 2024
January to June 2024
Highlights
Uganda faces humanitarian challenges, including disease outbreaks, high refugee numbers, climate shocks (floods, droughts), food insecurity, and high malnutrition rates.
• An estimated 112,270 cases of children aged 6-59 months and 8,980 pregnant and breasting women across the Karamoja sub region are projected to experience acute malnutrition and require treatment between March 2024 and February 2025 based on the June 2024 IPC analysis for Karamoja.
• Uganda registered over 89,700 new arrivals, including 16,400 new births mainly from Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, and other countries.
• 100,302 individuals, 35 per cent children, have on average, been affected by hydrometeorological hazards with 27,022 internally displaced from January to May 2024. • In the reporting period, 78,488 children and adolescents accessed formal and non-formal education including early learning and skills development programmes.
• As of June 2024, UNICEF supported provision of life-saving health care services to 160,738 children and women. Additionally, 13,852 children received treatment for severe wasting and 80,586 received measles vaccination.
• UNICEF and partners assisted 58 unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) with appropriate alternative care services and provided mental health and psychosocial support to 19,564 children.
• UNICEF Uganda’s Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) is 87 per cent unfunded. Over US$24.6 million is needed for the remaining half of the year to respond to identified gaps among vulnerable children.
