 Rhino Camp refugee settlement stretches across Madiakolo and Tarago districts in northwestern Uganda. The settlement was established in 1980 and is now home to just over 200,000 refugees from South Sudan. The refugees and nearby host communities live in remote rural areas. They depend on natural resources for most of their daily subsistence needs, such as fuel wood for cooking energy, growing crops, and keeping livestock. But because of the high population influx, these same natural resources are now under more pressure due to increased demand by refugees and their hosts, leading to landscape degradation and depletion of tree resources. The guidance for a landscape approach in displacement setting, or GLADS, is an initiative by C4 eCraft and partners to better understand and facilitate collaboration and refugee hosting landscapes, including this area of Rhino Camp refugee settlement. We are developing guidelines for implementing an integrated landscape approach. These guidelines are based on five main principles which include the principle on social ecological systems, the principle on multifunctionality, the principle on interdisciplinarity, participation, and sustainability. So in Uganda what we are doing is we have taken Rhino Camp refugee settlement where we wish to or we are going to be trialing the integrated landscape approach. A shared understanding of the displacement setting landscape is a first step in dealing with complexities and the multiple functions within the landscape to understand new social relations between host communities and other stakeholders and their use of resources. With pressure on the surrounding natural resources, refugees are now often competing with host communities to access fuel wood and water. So water issue is the biggest issue here since we arrived and up to now, like most of it is affecting crops. That is water performing. We are getting challenges that we dig, but sometimes they rain, disappoint us, and crops will not grow. Even we are also trying to plant trees, more trees to replace but others can force themselves now to grow. They are resilient to the sunshine, but others they can just die definitely. The other challenge is water. Really there is no water now. We have only one borehole. We are sharing with the host. At a time if that borehole goes get spoiling, we are going up to that learning center. Yeah, we are going to get water there. The land was filled with trees and it was even like a boost to see the other man or the other home or the other person. It was a problem. Nowadays you can even see from here to there. And this place here as you are seeing is stony. You can't dig anything. You can't dig anything. At least what we were we could rely on could be agriculture. And the agriculture here where to dig is a problem. And the sun, this climate of this place is not the best for us. Yeah, we were trying to at least struggle in all ways. Apart from digging, we are trying to do some bricks, bricks work. Like there, across there, I've done some bricks which we are waiting to sell. When these partners come, maybe to build schools to build, we can sell. And that will at least give us access to some animals where we can keep for survival. Yeah, that is some of the work we are trying to do. A second step is to create a common vision based on how stakeholders envision social, economic and social sustainability within their landscape. And so one of the one of the challenges is population increase. But this part of the country also has got, I mean, is largely a dry area. And many times there is there is burning, bush burning. There are worried fires. And this came quite a lot of by diversity, especially, you know, trees and then and grass and that initiative exposes it to degradation. So you have got pressure because of need for energy, you know, firewood charcoal. Then you have got wildfires. And sometimes these fires are also created by communities for many reasons, sometimes accidentally, but sometimes they deliver it. And these two working closely, I take it to put the integrity of the environment at risk. And therefore we come in to ensure that the stakeholders understand that there's a need for action to ensure that we keep the integrity of this landscape. And recently in March of 2022, we held a stakeholders workshop. The workshop was or evolved players in the landscape. These are humanitarian organizations that are implementing innovations in different sectors, sectors such as, of course, environmental management, sectors such as the water and sanitation, the wash project, protection, the gender and all that. So these together came and we were engaged in this workshop. I should also mention that the managers of the refugees in the settlement were also involved. That is the office of the prime minister led by the camp commandant were involved. Actions within refugee hosting landscapes means working across sectors, geographic and socio-economic boundaries, and addressing longer term needs, involving both refugees and host communities. The next is to do a pilot. We intend to pilot the principles in the landscape where we hope that one organization that is already present in the landscape will take lead in trialing these principles as CFO IKRAF who are the promoters of these principles will then take note and try to improve or refine the principles for proper implementation in the refugee displacement settings. Government and development agencies are working with communities for better sustainability within the area. They are working towards improved use of cooking energy and tree planting to restore tree cover and provide for firewood and fodder. I use also to plant some trees at my home because when you plant, when you cut, when you cut one, you plant some. I used to do like that. Non-biodegradable materials are being recycled for new products and economic activities. Solar-powered water pumps are one of the solutions tested to deal with water shortages. Continuous learning on these initiatives will help to follow closely what works and what more improvements are needed in this refugee hosting area. Empowering women, men, youth and vulnerable groups to participate helps to create more equitable outcomes. Gender mainstreaming in natural resource management is integral to the red and promotion of alternative energy sources project in Rhino refugee camp settlement. Women are being empowered to participate in decision-making and training on environmental protection, forest restoration, improved sustainable energy and alternative livelihoods. GLADS Initiative guides stakeholders in building context relevant understanding, inclusive approaches, continuous learning and outcomes towards sustainability and resilience in refugee hosting or displacement settings.