CONTEXT Description of the event and location The 2023 Long Rains started earlier than expected with some several parts of the county receiving good amounts of rain contrary to weather forecast...
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Pre-crisis Market Mapping and Analysis Report for Busia County
BACKGROUND KRCS has been implementing the IARP project, which aims to strengthen the capacity of KRCS and partners to prepare for and respond to disasters. As part of this, KRCS has developed an...
Pre-crisis Market Mapping and Analysis Report for the Counties of West Pokot and Kitui (Sept - Oct 2021)
BACKGROUND In February 2021, KRCS as part of KFSSG undertook a multi-sectoral county food security situation assessment to establish the food security in the country and inform actions to support...
The Probable Climate Scenarios of 2023 and 2024 in Kenya. (A period of failed rainfall seasons and elevated off-seasonal rainfall)
The vagaries of drought felt frequently in Kenya in the recent times is as a result of cumulative rainfall deficits for many years. In the last 20 years, we’ve had more failed rainfall seasons than...
Hapless herdsmen staring at bleak future as drought decimates their livestock
By Peter Abwao, Communications Manager Kenya red Cross Society During the good times Ngao Chome from Msamviani Village, Kwale County did not think much about his goats. The browsers were easy to tend...
Pre-crisis Market Mapping and Analysis Report for Tana River County (Oct - Nov 2021)
BACKGROUND KRCS has been implementing the IARP project, which aims to strengthen the capacity of KRCS and partners to prepare for and respond to disasters. As part of this, KRCS has developed an...
Walda Climate Adaptation Project
The Walda Climate Adaptation project is part of the bigger strategy of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) on disaster risk management, aimed at addressing three key pillars namely; disaster risk...
Kenya Red Cross Society overcoming natural barriers to deliver humanitarian support
The food insecurity in Kenya has seen the Kenya Red Cross Society utilize multiple response interventions to support families facing food starvation. The crisis has affected more than 3 million...
Launch of A New Drought Appeal Targeting 1 Million People
The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) has revised its drought appeal to cater for 1 million people facing starvation, an amendment that will now require Ksh 2.5 billion. The previous drought appeal...
Baringo residents struggle with drought and conflict over resources
The drought situation continues to escalate rendering 2.7 million people food insecure, among them residents of Baringo county who have to withstand the ravaging drought and inter-clan conflict over...
Millions survive on strands of hope as drought escalates
A visit to the drought stricken counties may easily be traumatizing to the faint hearted due to the human misery evident on the faces and bodies of children, women and men whose only choice is to...
Responding to drought in Marsabit through cash transfer
Kenya is currently going through a drought situation in some parts of the country, that has seen an estimated 1.3 million Kenyans acutely food insecure and in need of assistance. The Kenya Red Cross...
Destocking as drought in Kenya bites harder
Destocking is an exercise that the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) has taken up -through funding from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), with an aim of supporting...
Residents in Tana River County benefit from the drought based slaughter destocking exercise
The ongoing drought in Kenya has affected more than 1.3million in the arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya. Tana River County which is located in the coastal province of Kenya and currently under alarm...
Kenya Red Cross launches Jaza Lorry campaign to support drought victims
The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) has launched the “Jaza Lorry” initiative that aims to mobilize resources and mitigate the on going drought in the Coast region. Coordinated by the KRCS Coast region...
Forecast Based Action in Kitui, Kenya: A Case Study
1. INTRODUCTION In 2015, models by metrological agencies globally, including the Kenya Metrological Department (KMED), predicted a 90% probability of El Niño conditions1 during the "short rains" of...
Situation report 006 – Country Wide Floods and Huruma Building Collapse
Situation report 006 – Country Wide Floods and Huruma Building Collapse Sitrep no. 006/May/2016 Date of issue – 16/05/2016 Time period of Sitrep: 1600Hrs Current Situation Heavy rains have been...
The Bomet Integrated Development Programme (BIDP)
The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), on 11th March, 2016 attended a ground breaking ceremony for the Sigor Water Supply Project under Bomet Integrated Development Programme (BIDP). The project will...
El Nino Rainfall Monitoring Report 9 on October 19, 2015
Situation Overview Significant amount of rainfall was registered in most parts of the Country in the last 24 hours. The areas affected include Marsabit, Nandi, Nyeri Busia, Mt. Elgon, Homabay,...
Ngomeni conflict assessment preliminary report on 11th June 2015
Tuesday, 16 June 2015. The Kamba farming community and Somali patoralists communities have lived side by side in the areas of Kanyunyu and Kasiluni in Kyuso sub County of Mwingi North constituency...