Reports

AFKE71 Dear Friends, We would like to share with you contents of the following letter from NCCK, expressing concern about the drought situation and the Implementing Partners predicament due to the poor status of funding for the Appeal. QUOTE We are very, very…

Introduction Weather in most areas remained cold and windy and this has favored crops through reduced evaporation and evapo-transpiration rates. Turkana received recognizable amounts of rain through out the district and this have greatly improved water availability especially for the…

(Excerpt) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) Iran C) Iraq D) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania E) Uganda F) Kenya G) Somalia. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on…

Excerpt) The OXFAM Emergencies Bulletin The Oxfam Emergencies Bulletin aims to give an overview of Oxfam's current emergency work world-wide, for use in communications work. It appears monthly. For further information, contact Maurice Herson in the Emergencies Department. [ Telephone 01865…

Co-ordinating Office Action by Churches Together (ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human need through co-ordinated emergency response and common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based in the Lutheran World…

UPDATE ON INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE INTRODUCTION 1. Further to DHA's situation report no. 2, the following update has been provided by the UNDP/DHA Resident Representative in Nairobi on the status of relief efforts in the drought-affected areas. 2. Since the…

Contact: Lisa Swenarski Tel: (404) 681-2552 WHAT: Recent rains coupled with the intervention of government and private agencies in Kenya and Somalia are helping to mitigate the worst effects of a devastating six-month drought. Fields and hills in Kenya are slowly…

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE SECOND UN-DMT MISSION 1. In response to the Kenyan Government's appeal for assistance, and further to its first assessment mission to North-Eastern Province on 21-23 January, the UN Disaster Management Team (UN-DMT), led by the UN Resident…

Summary Some 60% of Kenya is affected by severe drought with North Eastern and Eastern Provinces among the hardest hit. A recent Food and Agricultural Organisation assessment indicates that 1.6 million people require relief assistance until the next harvest in September.…

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE BACKGROUND FOR APPEAL 1. The UN Resident Coordinator in Nairobi reports that at the request of the Government of Kenya, the UN Disaster Management Team (UN-DMT) carried out a first assessment mission to drought affected north-eastern…