Rebuilding Communities in Refugee Settlements: A Casebook from Uganda (Oxfam Development Casebooks) - Softcover

Payne, Lina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0855983949 ISBN 13: 9780855983949

Publisher: Oxfam Professional, 1998

Synopsis

This book gives a critical account of a complex and ambitious refugee-settlement programme in support of 55,000 refugees who fled in 1993 from armed conflict in south Sudan into a remote and insecure region of north-west Uganda. In helping refugees to rebuild self-reliant, sustainable communities, Oxfam's vision was to treat them as people with their own capacities and dignity. This book relates how structures were established to ensure the representation of all groups, particularly the most vulnerable. It considers the questions of integration with the local host population; site-suitability and the impact of refugee settlements on their physical environment; the problems of donor fatigue and the internal stresses created when a disaster-relief operation evolves into a community-development programme in a still-turbulent context.

About this title

Product Description:

96p green paperback, "for reference only", binding firm, near fine condition

Review:

"It is a fascinating close-up view of an ambitious refugee assistance programme which should be compulsory reading for anyone concerned with refugee assistance in Africa." Journal of Refugee Studies

A fascinating close-up view of an ambitious refugee assistance programme which should be compulsory reading for anyone concerned with refugee assistance in Africa, as well as those interested in the complex and unhelpful distinction between 'relief' and 'development', whether at a theoretical, a planning or a field level. Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxfam Professional
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0855983949
• ISBN 13: 9780855983949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96