After five consecutive failed rainy seasons Kenya experienced heavy rains that brought devastating floods between October and December 2023. Damage to agriculture, livestock, and disruption of...
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Cash transfers helping communities cope with climate shocks
Recent data indicates that the number of refugees and asylum seekers in the Dadaab and Kakuma internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps has increased to 321,000 and 272,000 respectively. The total...
Kenya: El Nino Flash Floods Rapid Needs Assessment - November 2023
Background The Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) counties in Northern Kenya, who are emerging from four consecutive drought seasons are now grappling with the disastrous impact of heavy rainfalls and...
Urgent food and shelter assistance priority in the ongoing flash floods in northern Kenya
Nairobi, 21st November 2023 – The ongoing rains have displaced or severely affected the livelihoods and food security of over 120,000 people in Northern Kenya. Affected populations urgently need...
Flash floods in Northern Kenya cause displacement and damaged infrastructure
Nairobi, 11th November 2023 – Kenya is currently experiencing heavy rainfall caused by the El Nino climatic phenomenon. The rainfall has become more intense in several counties in Northern Kenya,...
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Kenya: Undocumented refugees receiving support to meet basic needs
Recent data indicates that the number of refugees and asylum seekers in the Dadaab and Kakuma internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps has increased by 96,000 and 50,000 respectively. The total now...
Kenya El Nino Response Plan: Emergency Flood Alert - October 2023
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS The El Niño season began in June 2023 and is expected to continue until at least February 2024. Kenya is in one of the regions where flooding has historically been higher during...
Cash Programming Kenya Review 2018 - 2022
Executive Summary Acted in Kenya is predominantly providing humanitarian assistance in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) Counties where the main source of livelihood is pastoralism apart from their...
Samburu and Baringo Rapid Needs Assessment, July 2023
Assessment Key Highlights • Samburu and Baringo Counties in Kenya are recovering from the prolonged drought following four consecutive failed rain seasons. There was an improvement in forage and...
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Circularity in Dadaab - Rapid Assessment (June 2023)
Acted works towards a ‘3ZERO’ world, Zero Carbon, Zero Exclusion and Zero Poverty. As part of our work towards Zero Carbon, Acted has undertaken a rapid assessment in Dadaab, Kenya, to identify...
Kenya: Desalinating salty water for Samburu communities
Clean water is vital for human health and survival, and access to water is recognized as a human right. By March 2023, it is estimated that at least 74% of people in the world had access to safely...
Kenya Cash Consortium - Four Years on: Locally Led Response Case Study (December 2022)
Case Context The Arid and Semi-Arid (ASAL) region in Northern Kenya is ravaged annually by cyclic shocks including drought, flash floods and most recent the desert locus invasion affecting the social...
ACTED Kenya: providing emergency cash assistance to support the drought-affected families in Turkana County
Kenya is currently experiencing a historic multi-season drought that has led to acute food insecurity and malnutrition in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). In this part of Kenya, most of the...
Drought in the Horn of Africa: ACTED’s response to water scarcity in Samburu County, Northern Kenya
The Drought Emergency Response for Food and Nutrition Security (DERF) is a USAID-funded project, implemented in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Marsabit, Turkana and Samburu counties. Under this...
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Drought in the Horn of Africa: the arduous path to assistance for unregistered refugees in Dadaab Refugee camps, Kenya
The Kenya Cash Consortium, funded by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) and led by ACTED and the ASAL Humanitarian Network (AHN), provided...
Drought in Kenya: How the Kenya Cash Consortium is improving the well-being of affected families
In August 2022 in Marsabit County, approximately 95% of open water sources were depleted in all the livelihood zones. The four successive rainfall deficits and intense livestock migration have...
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Drought situation continues to deteriorate in Kenya: Alliance2015 members and the ASAL Humanitarian Network
In the developing Horn of Africa drought crisis, and as attention on the situation in Somalia rises, Kenya is at risk of falling into the shadows. Kenya has now experienced four consecutive failed...
Kenya: Pastoralist communities grow vegetables that resist the drought
In Baringo County, located along the great Rift-valley bed, the Churo population predominantly rely on their livestock as a source of income. The onset of third failed season devastated livelihood...
ASAL Humanitarian Network MPCT Endline Assessment, Kenya, January 2022
Overview The ASAL Humanitarian Network's (AHN) humanitarian assistance programme provides two rounds of multipurpose cash transfers (MPCTs) to vulnerable populations in drought-affected counties in...
ASAL Humanitarian Network MPCT New Beneficiaries Baseline Assessment, Turkana County (February 2022)
Overview The ASAL Humanitarian Network's (AHN) humanitarian assistance programme provides three rounds of multipurpose cash transfers (MPCTs) to vulnerable populations in drought-affected counties in...