Enhancing identity verification for refugees in Uganda

In Uganda, refugees and asylum seekers struggle to cash out their remittances due to challenging and time-consuming identity verification processes.

This is one observation from IFAD’s Financing Facility for Remittances Remittance Access Initiative (RAI), financed by the European Union and implemented by Cenfri. The note focuses on the challenge of verifying refugee identity in Uganda, outlining the current issues at stake and the rationale for solving this challenge and potential solutions for doing so.