Movement as a livelihood and protective strategy in Northern Uganda

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2006

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Humanitarian Practice Network at the Overseas Development Institute, London, GB

Abstract

In March and April 2006, a research team from Tufts University’s Feinstein International Center carried out a study on livelihoods and human security in three areas of Kitgum district in Northern Uganda: the Orom trading centre/IDP camp and surrounding parishes, the Agoro trading centre/ IDP camp and nearby villages, and Labuje IDP camp and Pager village. The team used qualitative research methods, including in-depth, semistructured, open-ended interviews with different categories of households,1 clan leaders, IDP camp leaders, medical personnel in the camps, NGO and UN officials and military officials, direct observation and participant observation. This article reports the main findings of the study as they relate to people’s use of movement as a livelihood and protective strategy.

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CIVIL WAR, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, INTERNAL MIGRATION, LABOUR MIGRATION, INCOME GENERATION, UGANDA

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