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Rapid Gender Analysis Arua & Gulu 2019 RAPID GENDER ANALYSIS & GENDER BASED ASSESSMENT For the Women & Youth Resilience Project (WAYREP) RGA & GBV Assessment Arua District & Gulu Town AUTHORS: Nedjma Ouerdane, CARE Austria Gender Adviser, and Janepher Taaka, CARE Uganda Gender and GBV Specialist. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We would like to thank staff at CARE Uganda and CARE Austria for their support and feedback in completing this report, as well as Elizabeth Cowan at CARE USA for her peer review of the report draft. We are particularly grateful to the research assistants who supported Nedjma and Janepher in conducting the field missions in Arua and Gulu towns. In Arua town, the team included Kevin Anviko, David Jurugo, Hope Sitaraya Comfort and Vita Musa and in Gulu town, Adokorach Sandra, Prisca Laker, Akena Denis and Ronald Owiny. 1 Rapid Gender Analysis & Gender Based Assessment | Arua District & Gulu Town RGA & GBV Assessment Arua District & Gulu Town Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 2 List of Acronyms ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Tables of Figures, Text Boxes and Tables ................................................................................................................ 4 Tables .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Text Boxes ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Figures ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 Key Findings ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Recommendations ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 13 The Rapid Gender Analysis Objectives .................................................................................................................... 16 Methodology ....................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Study Limitations ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Demographic Profile ........................................................................................................................................................ 19 Key findings on urban refugees ............................................................................................................................. 20 Analysis & Findings .......................................................................................................................................................... 22 Decision-making at the household and community level ........................................................................... 22 Division of Labour ....................................................................................................................................................... 24 Access to Resources .................................................................................................................................................... 27 Needs and Coping ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 Protection and GBV ..................................................................................................................................................... 30 Conclusions and Recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 37 Annexes ................................................................................................................................................................................. 40 Annex 1 – Literature for Desk Review................................................................................................................. 40 Annex 2 - Focus Group Discussion Questions .................................................................................................. 42 Annex 3 – Key Informant Interview Questions ............................................................................................... 48 Annex 4 - GBV District Network Committee’s GBV Referral Pathway ................................................... 51 Annex 5 - RGA on Power, Omugo Settlement, CARE Uganda West Nile, 1 March 2019 (Draft Version 1). ....................................................................................................................................................................... 53 2 Rapid Gender Analysis & Gender Based Assessment | Arua District & Gulu Town RGA & GBV Assessment Arua District & Gulu Town List of Acronyms ADA Austrian Development Agency CDO Community Development Officer CSO Civil Society Organization DRC Democratic Republic of Congo FGD Focus Group Discussion GBV Gender Based Violence GoU Government of Uganda ICGLR International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) IGA Income Generating Activity IJM International Justice Mission INGO International Non-Governmental Organisation IP Implementing partner IPV Intimate Partner Violence JLOS Justice Law and Order Sector KII Key Informant Interview MoGLSD Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development NFI Non-Food Items NGO Non-Governmental Organization OPM Office of the Prime Minister PEP Post-Exposure Prophylaxis RDO Refugee Desk Officer RGA Rapid Gender Analysis SEA Sexual Exploitation and Abuse SRHR Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights SSURA South Sudanese Refugee Association STI Sexually Transmitted Infections UNHCR United Nationals High Commissioner for Refugees USI-GI Uganda Social Institutions and Gender Index VAW Violence Against Women VSLA Village Savings and Loans Association(s) WAY Women and Youth Project WAYREP Women and Youth Resilience Project 3 Rapid Gender Analysis & Gender Based Assessment | Arua District & Gulu Town RGA & GBV Assessment Arua District & Gulu Town Tables of Figures, Text Boxes and Tables Tables Table 1 FDG & KII Gender Disaggregated Data ......................................................................................................... 17 Table 2 Gulu & Arua Municipality Populations ......................................................................................................... 19 Text Boxes Text Box 1 Ugnada's Labour Export Companies ...................................................................................................... 25 Text Box 2 A Day in the Life of a South Sudanese Refugee Family .................................................................... 26 Text Box 3 A Note on GBV Satistics in Uganda .......................................................................................................... 36 Figures Figure 1- Municipal (Gulu & Arua) Administrative Unit Hot Spots ................................................................. 19 4 Rapid Gender Analysis & Gender Based Assessment | Arua District & Gulu Town RGA & GBV Assessment Arua District & Gulu Town Executive Summary CARE Uganda, in partnership with CARE Austria and with funding from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), is implementing a five-year project called the Women and Youth Resilience Project (WAYREP 2019-2024). The project aims to help prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) as well as improve livelihoods and wellbeing amongst vulnerable communities in North and North West Uganda. The project focuses on poor Ugandan and refugee women and female youth, as well as men and male youth in Arua town, the Omugo settlement in Arua District and Gulu town. CARE’s experience of working in Uganda and empowering vulnerable and poor communities has largely informed preliminary WAYREP design and planning. However, most of this knowledge is in the humanitarian, rural and settlement contexts and much less is known about programming for communities in the urban poor context. As such, the towns of Arua and Gulu present new ground for CARE programming. This Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) seeks to capture the different types of gender issues affecting WAYREP target groups within this urban poor context and provide recommendations for programming accordingly. It considers five main lines of inquiry for gender analysis which explore the positions of men, women, female and male youth, and how they may differ within this context but also, across the refugee
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