Kenya
Cash Offers Fresh Hope for Mothers in Masalani
Khamar Ali Aden is a young mother of three children, married at an early age—she is only 20 years-old and has been married for 5 years. Khamar’s 3 children are aged 5 years, 2 years and…
Kenya
Khamar Ali Aden is a young mother of three children, married at an early age—she is only 20 years-old and has been married for 5 years. Khamar’s 3 children are aged 5 years, 2 years and…
Somalia + 2 more
In 2011, East Africa suffered from one of the worst droughts in 60 years which left more than 13 million people in need of food, water and emergency healthcare. Canadian donors contributed $14 million to the Humanitarian…
Kenya
In Kenya, a combination of factors led to the food crisis of 2008–9, which put around 9.5 million people at risk of starvation. About 4.1 million of those affected were living in informal settlements (slums) in…
Kenya
KWALE, 26 September 2012 (IRIN) - Kenya’s ailing cashew sector, which provides a livelihoods of sorts to 60,000 farmers, is set for a boost. Under a project involving the government, research scientists, processors and producers, aging trees…
Kenya
NAIROBI, 7 September 2012 (PlusNews) - Cash transfer programmes not only improve nutrition, education and health benefits for orphans and vulnerable children, but new research now suggest that these programmes can also significantly reduce risky sexual…
Somalia
Cash based responses are on the rise in Somalia. ACTED has proven to be a part of this trend through recently past, and current implementations of cash based initiatives in South Central Somalia. The following article…
Kenya
Safaricom Limited, a mobile network operator in Kenya, launched a mobile money transfer system called M-PESA in 2007. This system allows users to send or receive money on their Safaricom SIM card. Télécoms sans Frontières and Vétérinaires…
Somalia
by Anne-Marie Schryer-Roy Before Adeso implemented its Social Safety Nets (SSN) intervention in Karkaar, Somalia, Faadumo Bashiir Hujaale and her children worked as fishermen to survive. Like many parents facing severe food insecurity, Faadumo had to borrow…
Zimbabwe
Sithandekile Mhlanga | Washington Activist group Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association says it has petitioned the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and the police over the disbursement of the Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Scheme, meant to assist…
Uganda
This report examines a Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supported labourintensive cash for work and voucher for work project which was implemented in the framework of GIZ’s Food and Nutrition Security and Conflict Management…