Consumer and Market Study in Southwest and West Nile Refugee-Hosting Areas in Uganda
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) commissioned a consumer and market study to explore economic activities, employment trends, consumption levels, and consumer preferences of refugees and host communities in Uganda’s largest refugee-hostin...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English English |
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Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099707008092214909/IDU09a86c06a09f8204f7c0989b01f4c1dd1a9ea http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37876 |
| Summary: | The International Finance Corporation
(IFC) commissioned a consumer and market study to explore
economic activities, employment trends, consumption levels,
and consumer preferences of refugees and host communities in
Uganda’s largest refugee-hosting areas in the Southwest and
West Nile regions. The study covers a gap in existing
research on the economic situations of forced displacement,
which is often conducted from a humanitarian perspective and
rarely offers the private sector view. The study presents
the refugees’ economic activities in their distinct roles as
consumers, producers, suppliers, and salaried workers from
the view of a private sector firm entering the market. It
builds on earlier research conducted by the Uganda
Investment Authority, in partnership with the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP), which produced investment
profiles for refugee-hosting districts. The report is
divided into eight chapters. Chapter one introduces the
study. Chapter two outlines the study methodology. Chapter
three provides socioeconomic baseline data, such as
educational attainment, employment, and income, comparable
by region and population group (refugees versus host
communities). Chapter four explores access to
telecommunication and financial services. Chapter five
analyzes household consumption expenditure, the volume of
economic activity, consumer preferences, and access to
finance and telecommunication services. Chapter six
discusses findings from the business survey. Chapter seven
briefly looks at agricultural value chains in the Southwest
and West Nile. Chapter eight presents investment
opportunities in the refugee-hosting districts for the
private sector. |
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