Reports

(Extract from the report) Overview Issues surrounding a draft constitution released by the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission on September 18 dominated most public discussions in the country this month. The attention was because of its bold proposals that included creation…

UNEP Today Hands Over Low Cost Rainwater Harvesting to Kenyan Pastoralists Nairobi, 27 September 2002 - Masai women have joined a pioneering new anti-drought initiative that promises to dramatically reduce the time spent finding and collecting sufficient clean and healthy water…

NAIROBI, 16 September (IRIN) - Uganda is anticipating unusually high rainfall associated with El Nino, a weather phenomenon typically associated with the warming up of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Last month, the Ugandan authorities issued a national alert over the impending…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 16 September (IRIN) - Increasing ecological destruction and changes in land use around Mt Kenya, Africa's second-highest mountain, are bringing severe pressure to bear on the mountain's rivers,…

Kenya's Paul Tergat, twice Olympic silver medalist and world championship record holder over 10,000 metres, explains why he supports WFP's global school feeding campaign. I know what it means to be poor and hungry. I grew up in the town of…

Health and Family Planning Overview Population: 30.3 million (Central Bureau of Statistics, Kenya 2002) Infant Mortality Rate: 74 (1995, KDHS 1998) Under-Five Mortality Rate: 112 (1995, KDHS 1998) DPT3 Coverage: 79.2%, children 12-23 mos. (KDHS 1998) Nutrition: 22% underweight, children 0-59 mos. (KDHS 1998) Total Fertility Rate:…

SUMMARY The outlook for the 2002 September- December 2002 short-rains season points to the likelihood of mostly "normal" rainfall with slight tendencies toward "below normal" rainfall in most areas of the country outside the districts adjacent to…

The Masai people, indigenous to southwestern Kenya's Narok District, at the southern end of the Rift Valley, are being helped to rehabilitate their water resources by CWS and our partner, the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK). Narok…