The civil conflicts in South Sudan has since 2013 resulted into increased influx of refugees into West Nile, Uganda. As at February 2017, the FAO estimated the total refugee population in West Nile region at 628,000 people (86% women and children, 3% the elderly, and 5 people per household). While the progressive Uganda Refugee Act (2006) and Refugee Regulations (2010) allow refugees freedom of movement, the right to work, the right to own a business and property, and access to education and health care, right on arrival, refugees compete with the local citizens for scarce resources such as land, water, housing, vegetation, food, social infrastructures (education, health, water sources, transport) and employment. In a bid to enable refugees and host communities to achieve economic, social and environmental self-sufficiency, HORIZONT3000 in partnership with the Agency for Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD) and PALM Corps secured a two-year funding from the Austrian Development Cooperation, Bruder und Schwester in Not Innsbruck (BSI) and Caritas Kärnten to support livelihood initiatives in Arua and Yumbe districts.