Mercy Corps - Uganda

Mercy Corps Uganda works alongside communities to build a more resilient, inclusive future for everyone to share.

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🌱 Through the #PUMPUP Program, #MercyCorps is supporting #farmers in Northern Uganda to embrace #SolarIrrigation to adapt to #ClimateChange. In Partnership with #Enventure & #TulimaSolar, 27 pumps have been purchased in Sept — boosting #ClimateSmartAg & resilient livelihoods! 💧

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The UGX 1.8M cost of solar water pumps remains out of reach for many smallholder farmers in Yumbe and Gulu districts. Through the PUMP-UP program, we’re partnering with @CentenaryBank, Gulu Branch to explore solutions that unlock access to solar irrigation.

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You're Invited: Jobtech Alliance x SafeBoda Meetup - https://t.co/burinT4WZ1

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You're Invited: Jobtech Alliance x SafeBoda Meetup - https://t.co/DaQsZHIRD7

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The E-Waste Circular Economy Scale-Up Project in Bidibidi & Yumbe is testing a self-sustaining, financially viable model for e-waste management.

Our goals:
✅ Generate evidence for scaling
✅ Develop a sustainable business model
✅ Build partnerships for impact

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Strengthening Safeguarding - https://t.co/vmHmlsjXQK

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🌍 We recently hosted GPA, NORCAP & THEA at our Clean Energy programs in BidiBidi! The visit highlighted our innovative approaches to sustainability and resilience-building among refugee and host communities. 🔄 Circular economy 🔥 Clean cooking 💧 Solar irrigation:

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Mercy Corps has launched the Transforming Humanitarian Energy Access (THEA) programme in Kampala to explore private sector engagement and innovative financing mechanisms to meet the energy needs of displaced communities.

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We are excited to share the GIRL-H Storybook, a powerful collection of real-life stories highlighting how economic empowerment + social behavior change = transformed lives!
https://t.co/f42Jmlq9Vn
#GIRLH #FinancialInclusion #YouthEmpowerment #GenderEquality #Karamoja

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Through these expos , our commitment remains firm:
✅ To raise awareness about available market opportunities in refugee settlements.
✅ To Strengthen participants’ understanding of market actors ahead of the randomized controlled trial evaluation by IDinsight.

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Refugees have faced significant barriers in accessing market systems. Recognizing this gap, Mercy Corps, in partnership with Village Enterprise, officially launched the #DREAMS Market Expos on February 3, 2025, at the Rhino Refugee Settlement in Terego/Madi-Okollo, West Nile—

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🚀 The Refugee Finance Playbook is here! 🌍💰

In today’s webinar, we had an engaging discussion on why refugee financing matters now more than ever.

📖 Access it here: https://t.co/tuLnRjf3g6
▶ Watch the webinar: https://t.co/aRqfNmUGyc

@AFD_en @Kiva @mercycorps_uk

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🌍⚡ Celebrating the International Day of Clean Energy!

Together, we envision an era of clean energy built on speed, justice, and collaboration.
Let's power the future sustainably and equitably! 💡✨

#SUSTAINED
#PUMP-UP
#E-Waste
#CleanEnergy
#ClimateAction

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🌍💡 On #InternationalCleanEnergyDay, we highlight clean energy as key to resilient, equitable communities.

At Mercy Corps, we tackle barriers like affordability & limited access, partnering with stakeholders to deliver solutions for last-mile communities.

#ClimateAction

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🌱 Empowering Communities to Tackle Climate Change 🌱

Through the Powering the Uptake of Climate Change Mitigating Pumps (PUMP-UP) Uganda project, Mercy Corps made a significant impact in FY2024:

✅ 3,783 Direct Participants
✅ 18,915 Indirect Participants

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The Delivering Resilient Enterprises and Market Systems (DREAMS) program is transforming lives in Uganda and Ethiopia – home to 10% of the world’s refugee population. By integrating two proven models – Poverty Graduation and Market Systems Development.

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Mercy Corps Uganda released a brief on combining a graduation program with market systems development to enhance livelihoods in refugee and host communities (in Bidi-Bidi settlement, West Nile).

More Details: ⏯️ https://t.co/kyISUFFgRU

Learning Brief: https://t.co/dA2K8Or8wh

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Mercy Corps Uganda is a member of the Community Practice on Poverty Graduation, an agile and semi-formal space for collective learning, ideation and troubleshooting of all issues pertaining to how Graduation models are being implemented across Uganda.
⏯️: https://t.co/qBY5Pzkxzx

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🌟 In the past few months, we’ve rallied thousands of community members through a dynamic #advocacy campaign aimed at equipping #youngpeople with the #knowledge to make informed decisions about their #financialinclusion, #economicopportunities, and #SRHR

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We are thrilled to share the latest @GIRLH #Newsletter! 📬 Dive in to see how the program is #transforming lives by #empowering #adolescent #girls, and #boys through #financialliteracy, #SBCC, and #strongpartnerships.

🔗https://t.co/fZONySMt6a