Refugees, disaster-prone areas to benefit from Shs3.7b Japanese grant

Refugee communities and disaster-prone areas are set to benefit from $1,001,855 (approximately Shs3.7 billion) Japan program aimed at delivering lifesaving integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV) services.

Ms Gift Malunga, the United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) Country Representative, while speaking at the launch of the DELISiE program on Saturday in Kampala, decried access to SRHR services which she said have become more constrained in refugee-hosting districts due to the continued influx of refugees from South Sudan…