Reports

Appeal History: A preliminary emergency appeal was launched on 19 October 2011 for 27,618,017 Swiss franc (plus an estimated 3,050,000 Swiss franc for emergency response units) to assist 60,000 beneficiaries for 12 months. Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF):…

Key messages Kenya is a disaster-prone country in need of strengthened emergency preparedness and response capacities. The number of food insecure people has increased from 1.3 million in the beginning of 2014, to now 1.5 million. This is…

In Summary “There are two groups; those people who are going back to their homes and others that need to be settled because they lost everything in the 2010-2011 drought,” the commissioner added. “The main challenge is that…

Training Africans to increase sales and grow small agricultural businesses PHOENIX (August 5, 2014) – President Barack Obama spoke to 50 African leaders at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum in Washington D.C. from Aug. 4-6, to promote Africa’s…

Work plan Harmonization for RLRLP cross-border project activities in the Karamoja Cluster June 29th – 4 th July, 2014 I. Introduction The IGAD team, in collaboration with the project preparation teams of the Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project…

By Denis McClean NAIROBI, March 31 - UNISDR today welcomed the outcome of East Africa’s Second Drought Resilience Summit as an important contribution to next month’s Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and preparing for a…

In Summary The sprawling settlements that dot the landscape of Dadaab area, and the ever-burgeoning number of refugee communities that populate them, has over the years, negatively affected the host communities. The UNHCR has shown great irresponsibility by…

By Fred Oluoch Somali refugees began voluntarily going home recently after an agreement between the government of Kenya, Somalia and UNHCR. Fred Oluoch talked with the country representative Raouf Mazou about their resettlement in Somalia. Do you think…

This paper explores the role of the private sector in humanitarian action in Kenya. Kenya was selected as a case study because it has a vibrant and innovative private sector, a history of severe and repeated…

Education was interrupted and school time lost in areas affected by disasters such as conflict, floods and drought in Kenya. These disasters put many children at risk, exposing them to dangerous and rapidly changing situations. The…