Reports

Deforestation Costing Kenyan Economy Millions of Dollars Each Year and Increasing Water Shortage Risk, UNEP and Kenya Forest Service Report Finds Services from Kenya’s Water Towers Underpin Many Sectors of Economy Deforestation deprived Kenya’s economy of 5.8 billion…

Synopsis With support from the World Bank and the Trust Funded Water and Sanitation Program, the government of Kenya is working to address water shortages. The Kenya Water and Sanitation Services Improvement Project (WASSIP) is targeting major…

Situation Overview Wet and cool weather conditions prevailed across the District in the month of October. Planting was the major agricultural activity taking place within the District. Food purchase prices increased slightly in the month of October in comparison…

by Abdi Ali Aden The impact of better sanitation and proper hygiene practices is enormous in any society, especially during times of natural disaster. The importance of having a functioning latrine in your vicinity in such…

Thanks to the generosity of donors, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has been able to help millions of people affected by the 2011 food crisis in east Africa. The Movement provided communities with immediate…

UN-Habitat has joined schools in the Lake Victoria region for soap donations and demonstrations to celebrate Global Handwashing day. Children at the schools had the opportunity through their health clubs to learn the importance of hand washing…

General overview Operational environment: There were indications of an increase in the number of new arrivals from Somalia to the Dadaab/Alinjugur camps. UNHCR partners reported as many as 100 persons new arrivals per day though this has been…

Popularly known as the ASAL Policy and with the clarion call "Releasing our Full Potential", the title of this policy is a deliberate echo of the influential Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965, which perpetuated the…

Summary: CHF 320,779 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 7 February, 2012 to support the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) in delivering assistance to 5,000 households (30,000 beneficiaries ) affected by…

ISIOLO, 4 October 2012 (IRIN) - An outbreak of cholera along the Kenya-Somalia border has left dozens dead and many more sick, according to local residents, aid workers and government officials. "We have recorded nine deaths of…