Approximately 797,000 people in refugee-hosting districts in Uganda are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above), representing 17 percent of the population analysed. Of the 12 districts analysed, four were classified in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis), while the remaining eight were c [...]

Between April 2024 and March 2025, approximately 54,000 children aged 6-59 months and 9,800 pregnant or breastfeeding women (PBW) are suffering or projected to suffer acute malnutrition in the 13 refugee settlements and urban refugee populations. This corresponds to a 53 and 26 percent reduction f [...]

Between March and July 2024 which corresponds to the lean season, all the nine districts of Karamoja region are classified in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis), with 45 percent of the population analysed (600,000 people) facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). This includes 84,000 peo [...]

Approximately 112,270 children aged 6-59 months and 8,980 pregnant or breastfeeding women (PBW) across the Karamoja region are facing or expected to face acute malnutrition and will need treatment between March 2024 and February 2025 in the Karamoja region of Uganda. Of that total, 21,719 are severe [...]

In the current period of August 2023 – January 2024, which covers the first 2023 harvest and the second 2023 planting and harvesting seasons, 846,000 people (20 percent of the population analysed) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) [...]

Over 114,000 children aged 6 to 59 months and 13,000 pregnant or breastfeeding women (PBW) are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in the 13 refugee settlement and 12 host districts of Uganda between April 2023 and March 2024. In the 13 refugee settlements (excluding Kampala urban settlement [...]

In the Karamoja region of Uganda, the impact of ongoing average to below-average food and livestock production over the last three years due to climate related shocks / hazards and endemic pests/diseases, coupled with a currently fragile security situation are causing widespread food insecurity. In [...]

Over 89,000 children aged 6 to 59 months and 10,000 pregnant or lactating women (PLW) are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in the Karamoja region of Uganda between February 2023 and January 2024. Of the nine districts in Karamoja, during the onset of high acute malnutrition (February - Apr [...]

In Karamoja and Teso sub-regions and in the analysed refugee hosting districts, consecutive poor and below-average seasonal food harvests and livestock production, coupled with sharp increases in prices of food and essential non-food commodities, caused widespread food insecurity. Seasonal crop pest [...]

In the 13 refugee settlements and 12 hosting districts analysed, around 104,440 children were and will likely be acutely malnourished between February 2022 and January 2023, including around 16,540 children severely malnourished and are in need of treatment. Furthermore, around 12,850 pregnant or l [...]