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“Linking Humanitarian and Development Assistance in Refugee Response: A New Approach to Refugee Crises in Africa” Is Now Available as a Manga

2023.06.08

Project History is a publication series by the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute (JICA Ogata Research Institute) that reviews the trajectories and achievements of technical cooperation, financial cooperation, and volunteer programs conducted by JICA in developing countries.

Recently, “Linking Humanitarian and Development Assistance in Refugee Response: A New Approach to Refugee Crises in Africa” (manga version) was added to this series. This manga shows a clear and comprehensive trajectory of activities by the Japanese government and JICA to help protracted refugee situations in Uganda, a country receiving many refugees from neighboring countries such as South Sudan.

As refugee support was originally a response to emergency situations, until recently, international organizations, NGOs and other emergency humanitarian aid organizations were mostly in charge. Since JICA’s major role is development, areas that JICA can contribute to were thought to be limited. However, as conflicts are becoming protracted, so are refugee situations, creating new issues that cannot be addressed with emergency aid alone.

This manga also discusses the impacts of JICA’s cooperation to date on the communities receiving refugees and the refugees themselves, along with the significance of Japan’s involvement in supporting protracted refugee situations in Africa.