Deadline: 13-Aug-2025
The World Food Programme (WFP) is inviting applications for the implementation of general food assistance, nutrition, digital and financial inclusion, resilience, and self-reliance in the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement and its hosting district in Northern Uganda.
This initiative is part of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework and focuses on two main pillars: Emergency Response and Ongoing Needs, and Resilience and Self-Reliance. WFP aims to provide refugees, host communities, and other crisis-affected groups with access to adequate and nutritious food during emergencies, while also helping them gradually become self-reliant.
To implement these objectives, WFP collaborates with Cooperating Partners (CPs), who help meet the food security, nutrition, financial inclusion, livelihoods, and resilience needs of more than one million refugees and host communities in Uganda. These partners are responsible for delivering aid safely, efficiently, cost-effectively, and with full accountability to WFP and the people they serve.
The sectors of focus include food security through cash and food assistance, livelihoods through community mobilization and microfinance initiatives, nutrition with an emphasis on malnutrition prevention, and general protection services.
Expected results of the project include the provision of cash or in-kind food assistance and nutrition-sensitive social and behavior change communication (SBCC) to food-insecure refugees and asylum seekers. Both refugees and host communities will be linked to complementary services to better meet their food and nutrition needs.
Children under five, as well as pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls from both refugee and host communities, will receive nutrient-rich foods and SBCC support to combat and prevent malnutrition.
The project also focuses on building the capacity of government institutions and other stakeholders to ensure targeted and efficient assistance reaches the most vulnerable households.
Additionally, the program aims to strengthen the resilience of refugees and host communities through SBCC, livelihood assets, and training. These measures will help them diversify their income and improve food security via a multi-sectoral approach aligned with long-term self-reliance goals.
Key components also include social empowerment, mindset change, increased agricultural productivity through climate-smart practices, and diversification of income-generating activities.
The initiative promotes the digitization of Village Savings & Loans Associations (VSLAs) and fosters connections to formal financial services, helping to strengthen financial inclusion and long-term economic resilience.
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.
