Reports

NAIROBI, 16 April 2024: The Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Counties of Marsabit and Turkana have signed an agreement…

Heavy rainfall continues to affect northern, central and eastern Kenya since the beginning of the long rainy season (from March to May), causing rivers overflow (in particular the Tana River), floods, flash floods and triggering landslides…

HIGHLIGHTS The last week of March marked the start of the long rains season (March to May) characterised by isolated heavy storms that caused heavy rainfall and flash floods in several parts of the country. At least 13…

The Protection Monitoring Risks and Trends (PMRT) by DRC Kenya gathers primary and secondary data from an indicative sample of at-risk communities in Kenya to provide a community-centric understanding of local and an analysis of and…

The Protection Monitoring Risks and Trends (PMRT) by DRC Kenya gathers primary and secondary data from an indicative sample of at-risk communities in Kenya to provide a community-centric understanding of local and an analysis of and…

1. Drought Situation Overview All the counties are categorized under the ‘Normal’ phase based on the range of environmental, production, access and utilization indicators monitored that fell within their usual ranges as result of good performance of…

Anticipatory Action (AA) is a tool to mitigate risks, by acting ahead of a predicted hazard to prevent or reduce the impacts on communities before they fully unfold. This study sought to understand how and when can…

By David Pertaub April 2024 This brief on water in the drylands of Africa will explore the critical importance of water governance not only for water access and maintenance of water infrastructure, but also the wider governance and…

By Elizabeth Stites April 2024 If asked to describe gender roles in pastoralist settings in Africa, many development practitioners and policy makers might state that men control the livestock and women control the milk and/or the cultivation. These descriptions…

FAO provides cash and livestock support to 70,000 agropastoralists in Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda 25 March 2024, Nanyuki, Kenya – FAO, through the support of the Government of Japan, has reached more than 70,000 vulnerable pastoral and…