Reports

The 2019 Shona Socioeconomic Survey report studies data on Shona households living in and around Kenya's Nairobi and Kiambu counties. The Shona community is a stateless population with members originating from Zimbabwe and Zambia. This groundbreaking…

BACKGROUND The total number of positive COVID-19 cases in Kenya stands at 45,647 as of 20 October 2020. Mombasa county had reported the second highest (3,591) number of positive COVID-19 cases after Nairobi County (22,581). Social distancing…

By Lucy Earle, Researcher on urban issues and refugees at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is a member of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network, launched as…

BACKGROUND The total number of positive COVID-19 cases in Kenya stands at 53,797 as of 30 October 2020. Social distancing measures, including the temporary closing of venues or large public gatherings were put in place in March…

Drought status The Kenyan drought management system uses five drought early warning phases categorized as normal, alert, alarm, emergency and recovery. Currently, environmental indicators in 20 counties lie within the expected ranges for the time of the…

Nairobi, 26 November 2020 – As Kenya’s schools prepare to reopen fully for the first time since March, UN-Habitat and the Chandaria Foundation began distributing hand washing facilities for schools in Kibera informal settlement…

Matthew C Freeman, Anna S Ellis, Emily Awino Ogutu, Bethany A Caruso , Molly Linabarger, Katie Micek, Richard Muga, Amy Webb Girard, Breanna K Wodnik, Kimberly Jacob Arriola Abstract Introduction Growth shortfalls and diarrhoeal diseases remain a major…

Climate change will have the most pronounced consequences in fragile states: those with weak institutions that are ill equipped to effectively respond to this challenge. Increasingly, scholars and practitioners theorize that governance challenges in these countries…

HIGHLIGHTS The humanitarian situation in Kenya has deteriorated rapidly due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, desert locusts, recurrent waterborne disease outbreaks, flooding and slow recovery from the 2019 drought. Access to basic social services is…

6,816 refugees and asylumseekers have been registered in 2020: 4,708 in Kakuma and Dadaab and 2,108 in urban areas. Out of a population of 499,219, 447,141 (90%) are refugees and 51,281 (10%) asylum-seekers. 221,102 (44%) refugees and asylum-seekers…