Use Community Engagement to Identify People in Need of Relief

Expand Members of the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) and a Red Cross worker distribute food to people affected by the lockdown measures aimed at curbing the spread of the new coronavirus, in the Bwaise suburb of the capital Kampala, Uganda, April 4, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi Uganda’s sweeping measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 have serious implications for low-income people. In the past month the government closed schools, suspended public and private transport, and ordered non-food shops and markets to close. This goes on until May 5. But as people grow increasingly…

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