Training Refugees: Lights and Shadows in the Context of the Self-Reliance Strategy Implemented in Uganda.
Uganda currently hosts about 1.5 million refugees. Only a fraction is likely to revert to their home countries. Therefore, a key policy question is how to help the displaced communities to integrate into Uganda's economic system. One strategy to integrate the refugees in the local economy is to prov...
| Published in: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 406 - 432 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2024
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