CARE Kenya Factsheet
OCTOBER TO DECEMBER, 2012
Habiba Hire, Chairlady of Gargar II Beekeeping Farm in Garissa county and also a beneficiary of CARE Kenya’s Arid and Arid Lands Recovery (ARC) project displaying the honey from the group's apiary to other ARC supported groups. In her right hand is the packed and labeled refine honey and in the other hand is crude honey. Photo by Halima Mohamed / P A G E 2
CARE International’s Mission CARE International serves individuals and families in the poorest communities of the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by strengthening capacity for self-help; Providing economic opportunities; Delivering relief in emergencies; Influencing policy decisions at all levels; and addressing discrimination in all its forms. CARE International’s Vision We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CARE will be a global force and partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We will be known everywhere for our unshakeable commitment to the dignity of people.
Poverty map and CARE Programming by District
This map shows the Government of Kenya analysis of poverty by parliamentary constituency.
We have added our current areas of operation to the map to show where we are working, and to demonstrate the focus of that work. 8
CARE International in Kenya (CARE) Programme Overview CARE has been in Kenya since 1968. We currently carry out major initiatives in Refugee Assistance, Health, Livelihoods, Water and Sanitation, Climate Change adaptation, social protection, community managed disaster risk reduction and in Group Savings and Loans, with an average annual budget of approximately USD 29 million. CARE is one of the lead agencies under the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and World Food Programme (WFP), for water & hygiene, food distribution, and formal education in the Dadaab refugee camps near the Kenya-Somalia border. As of 21st October, 2012, the refugee population in Dadaab was 468, 770 refugees. Our main office is in Nairobi, and our priority regions are Nyanza Province (with a sub-office in Kisumu), Kibera in Nairobi, North Eastern Province (sub-offices in Garissa, Dadaab, and Takaba) and Marsabit and Embu in Eastern province. As a result of the wide scope of our programme, CARE Kenya keeps grow- ing, and by September 2012, there were 580 local staff, distributed as follows:
Nairobi Province Nairobi 108 N. E Province Garissa 41
Nyanza Province Kisumu 27 Dadaab 246
Kisii 32 Elwak
Siaya 10 Takaba 15
Homa Bay 5 Moyale 40
Bondo 2 Eastern Province Embu 7
Nyando 1 Upper Eastern Marsabit 19
Nyamira 10 Western Province Vihiga 1
Suba 3 Central Province Karatina 2
Nyakach 1 Nyandarua 1
Rarieda 1 Kinangop 1
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1) Livelihoods Sector CARE implements a multi-intervention approach to improve access to water, sanitation & hygiene through rehabilitation of boreholes, construction of water tanks, piped water schemes and latrines for communities in Nyanza and North Eastern Kenya. The WASH team also supports significant hygiene promotion through schools and through participatory educational theatre. The livelihoods team also has projects in social protection through targeted cash transfers, and works with communities in adaptation to climate change in north eastern and Nyanza provinces.
Value chain Kilimo Biashara Project Started in January 2012, it is a partnership between 150-200 outgrower farmers in Naivasha, Rift Valley Province, Sunripe Ltd and its main buyer in Denmark (FDB), and CARE. It features an increased number of out growers (men, women and youth ) employed in the selected value chains. Its objectives are to have increased product quality and quantity through improved sustainable natural resource management and agricultural practices amongst out growers, improved access to inputs and capital for outgrowers, identification of new procedures for handling rejects, tested and adopted to reduce loss for Sunripe as well as the farmers.
Water & Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Safe Water Systems (SWS) Programs CARE’s SWS is as an inexpensive water quality intervention at point-of-use, encompassing three components; water treatment using chlorine based solution; safe storage of treated water in narrow neck containers such as locally modified clay pots and plastic containers; and behaviour change through community mobilization and capacity building. SWS interventions are aimed at improving the quality of drinking water at household and clinic levels to reduce the incidence of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases in Nyanza Province.
SWASH + II CARE has successfully introduced the SWS model in over 230 schools in Nyanza Province over the past two years. The inclusion of practises such as hand washing with soap is critical in behaviour change especially for school children. SWASH+ program is the most recent initiative in CARE’s long history of promoting safe water in Nyanza, so far in 318 primary schools in the past four years.
Social Protection Hunger Safety Net Program (HSNP) II In partnership with the Government of Kenya and other organizations, CARE uses this programme to support the establishment of government led national social protection systems delivering long term guaranteed cash transfers to extremely poor and vulnerable people. HSNP aims at reducing poverty in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) districts of Kenya and addresses chronic poverty, hunger and vulnerability in targeted households by providing cash transfers to beneficiaries in order to improve access to food, protect assets and reduce the impact of shocks. It targets 7,000 households in the Greater Marsabit District. The programme uses a highly innovative biometric card to identify beneficiaries, who can collect their cash from participating traders rather than making round trips of hundreds of kilometers to reach the few banks in the district.
Adaptation to Climate Change Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP) ALP’s goal is to increase the capacity of vulnerable households in Sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to climate variability and change, and to incorporate Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) approaches for vulnerable communities in development policies and programmes in Ghana, Kenya (in Garissa, North Eastern Province), Mozambique and Niger, with plans in place to replicate across Africa. ALP will respond to adaptation challenges by developing and applying innovative approaches to the CBAs to generate best practice models; empowering local communities and civil society organisations to have a voice in decision-making on adaptation; promoting best practice models for CBA among adaptation practitioners; and influencing adaptation policies and plans at national, regional and international levels. ALP will benefit 59, 000 people in 40 communities, plus Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and local government learning and advocacy within province, country and across ALP. The project is funded by DfID, as well as the Finnish, Danish and Austrian governments.
Regional Resilience Enhancement Against Drought (RREAD IV) Regional Resilience Enhancement Against Drought IV (RREAD IV) is funded by ECHO. It is envisaged that 20,500 pastoral communities and individuals beneficiaries to local NGOs/CBOs and other government officials will benefit. Its main objective is to contribute to increased resilience and reduced vulnerability in targeted communities across the border between Kenya and Ethiopia. It covers Northern Cross border districts of Mandera West, Banisa, Wajir North, Moyale, Sololo and Marsabit North in Kenya.
2) Group Savings & Loans (GS&L) Sector CARE has implemented the Group Savings and Loan (GS&L) methodology, a community managed micro finance (CMMF) scheme whose approach is to increase the economic resilience of micro entrepreneurs. Its basic principle is that members of a self-selected group form an association and save money by contributing regularly to a fund, governed by the group itself. Members save at a rate matching their capacity, thus lowering the threshold of entry for the poor.
The core of the model is investment of the savings into a loan fund from which members can borrow, repaying with a service charge. Members take out loans in amounts closely aligned to their actual needs and opportunities. Such lending allows members to earn substantial interest on their savings. The cycle of savings and lending is time bound and at the end of an agreed period, maybe up to a year, the accumulated savings and service charge earnings are shared out amongst the members in proportion to the amount that each saved throughout the cycle, plus interest earned.
The approach promotes saving first and credit/loans second. GS&L also functions as a business incubator by linking, informing, sharing information and linking the more cautious or inexperienced participants with peers within the group who are experienced micro-entrepreneurs operating in the same environment, with the same constraints. The program targets both potential and existing micro entrepreneurs. These are the poorer sections of the economically active populations in rural areas, who cannot access credit easily from commercial banks and the conventional micro financial Institutions. CARE implements GS&L projects in five Provinces: Nyanza, Western, Nairobi, Eastern and North Eastern, and includes Nairobi’s Kibera slums.
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CARE in partnership with the Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSD) is working on strategies for a national roll out of the GS&L methodology, with FSD currently funding GS&L expansion specifically in Nyanza and the greater Marsabit district in Eastern Kenya. CARE is also working on modalities on improving GS&L service delivery in the informal settlements, targeting youths and women.
Banking on Change (BOC) - GS&L Linkages with financial institutions Started in October 2009, this project aims to reduce poverty and enhance income and livelihoods security for households in seven rural and peri-urban districts of Kenya, all in Nyanza and Eastern provinces. These are in Embu East, Embu North, Embu West, Mbeere North and South districts. In Nyanza the project is implemented in Homa Bay, Ndhiwa, Kisumu West and Kisumu North districts. The project improves livelihoods through sustained access to community-based financial services. The project’s objectives are to create 4,154 GS&L groups (comprising 98,060 clients) through training and monitoring of 70 Village agents/Community based trainers, to pilot linkages between progressive GS&L groups and formal banks, to enable poor and vulnerable households access financial services from GS&L groups, and to build the capacity of 14,709 GS&L members in enterprise development through provision of business management skills. BOC is undertaken through local partners; key agencies partnering with the project are Barclays Bank in Kenya, local/ provincial administration and a number of line ministries, Faith Based Organizations, Civil Society Organizations – CMAD, MANOR, Techno etc.
Community Savings & Loans (COSALO) II COSALO II is a joint initiative of CARE and the Financial Sector Deepening Trust Kenya (FSDK), whose aim is to improve financial access for marginalized individuals in Western and Northern parts of Kenya, who have been unable to access the financial services through the formal financial institutions. The project uses CARE’s GS&L methodology, and is a follow up of an earlier project implemented by the two partners from 2008 to 2011, which impacted the lives of over 300,000 individuals in 60,000 households directly. These beneficiaries, organized in 10,000 groups, mobilized cumulative savings worth 1 billion Kenya shillings (equivalent to about USD 1 million). Their livelihoods have been greatly improved, thus positively impacting the education of their children, their housing situation, food security and the organization of social events. COSALO II will run until June 2013.
Financial Linkages The Linkage project, a partnership between CARE and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is being implemented in Suba and Bondo districts of Nyanza province, Kenya. The project aims to pilot linkage of mature GS&L groups to financial institutions through mobile technology, and was designed to address the challenges facing mature GS&L groups e.g. the safety of money and excess liquidity, distances to commercial bank branches, misunderstanding between the banks and the groups seeking financial services etc. The project is working with Equity bank to develop appropriate savings and loans products for this clientele; Equity bank has in turn partnered with Orange mobile technology service provider to develop a platform for linkage through mobile technology. Launched in March 2012, it followed successful development and signing in of new products by Equity and Orange that will drive the linkage process i.e. the Savings product and Mobile Money transfer platform.
Marsabit Drought Resilience Enhancement Project (MDREP) The project is funded by FAO and covers Marsabit County- (North Horr, Maikona, Central, Loyangalani and Laisamis districts). Its main objective is to contribute towards improving response and resilience to drought for ASAL livelihood in Marsabit; it adopts innovative strategies that enable pastoralists produce, market, pprotect and build their livestock herd. It also promotes protection of pastoralist’s wealth or main assets (livestock) against drought effects. This is done through Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI). Partnership includes- CARE, ILRI, APA insurance company. It runs until August 2013.
Northern Kenya GS&L Project It will run from April 2012 to March 2013 and its objective is to increase access to financial services by households in Mandera West, Moyale and Garissa Central districts through GS&L and linkage to formal financial sector.
3) Health, HIV and AIDS Sector HIV and AIDS is still one of the biggest challenges to development in Kenya. CARE works with communities, civil society organizations and the Government of Kenya to keep HIV transmission low, provide support to those who need it and treat those infected and affected with respect, acceptance and protection. Further, CARE’S focus is on strengthening the economic ability of women and youth while reducing stigma and discrimination. In this sector, CARE trains community organizations and individuals in a wide range of technical areas including HIV/AIDS issues and rights and legal redress channels. Numerous home-based caregivers are beneficiaries of such training. With improved skills, caregivers enhance the condition of the infected. Projects under this are Global Fund, Family Planning Results Initiative (FPRI), CDC HIV care and treatment, Empowering Girls through Education project and ITSPLEY.
Global Fund Program CARE Kenya was awarded the civil society Principal Recipient of Global Fund (to fight Tuberculosis, Aids & Malaria) Round 7 for HIV and AIDS. The goal of this program is to improve the quality of life for people living with HIV&AIDS in Kenya and reduce HIV infections, scale up and maintain PLWHAs on adherence to ARV treatment, increase access to HIV testing and counseling services, increase uptake of HIV prevention and treatment services, strengthen institutional capacity to effectively implement and monitor HIV/AIDS services. CARE partners with the Ministries of Public Health and Sanitation & Medical Services, National AIDS Control Council (NACC), Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism, Non Governmental and Civil Society Organizations (NGOs & CSOs—47 agencies), National AIDS/Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Control Program (NASCOP) and UNAIDS, who provide technical support. The Global Fund recently agreed to fund phase II of this national programme after strong performance during phase I.
Family Planning Results Initiative (FPRI) CARE Kenya with support from USAID through CARE USA’s Reproductive Health Trust Fund designed the Results Initiative with the objective of achieving increased and sustained use of family planning services, and to improve sexual reproductive health for communities in Siaya district of Nyanza Province. The project seeks to increase sustained uptake and utilization of family planning services in Siaya by incorporating social change efforts besides traditional approaches to Family Programming.
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Chagua Maisha programme Funded by the US Centers for Disease Control, this programme works in partnership with the Ministry of Health and MERLIN, an NGO. The programme works in Kisii county. The programme works with local Ministry clinics to extend HIV prevention services to the community, including prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.
4) Emergency Arid and Marginal Lands Recovery Consortium (ARC) This project’s goal is to ensure enhancement of livelihoods by improving access to credit facilities and linkages to markets for the pastoralists in Northern Kenya. The project mainstreams responses to both HIV/AIDS and gender inequity, and plans to develop a socially responsible and commercially sustainable livestock marketing model that mainstreams the two areas. The short term strategy of this project is action to mitigate the effects of the food crisis through a cash for work program which includes the poorest of the poor, while the longer term strategy is to implement sustainable activities that strengthen and diversity livelihoods through viable economic opportunity and targets practicing pastoralists. The intended outcome is to have lives and livelihoods that are protected, and productive community assets created or strengthened that benefit the longer term market linkage activities. This project is funded by OFDA through a partnership with FH.
Water for Livestock Project Funded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) with 100, 000 beneficiaries, its aim is to increase access to water supply systems during the drought periods for human and livestock consumption; enhance community capacity in access and control of water resource to reduce conflicts among the pastoralists in Garissa, Fafi, Lagdera and Balambala districts through desilting of existing earth pans; rehabilitation of boreholes; ensure livelihood assets of pastoral men and women affected by the drought in Garissa, Fafi, Lagdera and Balambala districts are preserved, protected and rebuilt through increased access to water for livestock.
Horn of Africa Drought Response This is to meet the immediate relief needs of women, men, boys and girls affected by the drought in Northern Kenya (Marsabit, Wajir, Garissa, Mandera, and Moyale), Kenya, newly arrived refugees in Dadaab and the refugee host community. At the same time, CARE will work to ensure high quality program delivery for existing programs/activities, and work to help communities to recover from the impacts of the drought over the medium and long term. It runs from July 2011 to December 2012 and will benefit 15, 734 individuals.
5) Refugee Assistance Programme Conflict in Somalia has displaced hundreds of thousands of individuals. Since 1991, CARE has provided relief and development assistance for the three refugee camps in Dadaab in addition to supporting host communities around the camps. In recent months, drought and conflict in Somalia has increased the refugee influx into Dadaab, as of October 21st 2012, the population in Dadaab stood at 468, 770 refugees. Two more camps were opened in late 2011-Kambioos and Ifo Extension, where the new refugee influx were moved. There are now a total of 5 camps in the area, 3 under UNHCR sub office Dadaab (Dagahaley, Ifo and Ifo 2) and 2 under UNHCR sub office Alinjugur (Hagadera and Kambioos). In Dadaab, CARE offers these services:
Logistics and distribution CARE distributes food provided by WFP in the three camps (including Kambioos) through different food programs, including general food distribution which is undertaken twice every month. There is a school feeding program in all the primary schools in the camps. CARE also provides support to associated implementing partners of the UN in the form of storage and distribution of fuel, warehousing and distribution of non food items (jerricans, tarpoulines, blankets etc), provision of motor vehicle and generator repairs and maintenance, and internet services to offices within the camps.
Education CIK has been operating 6 primary schools in Dagahaley camp with 16, 889 (7, 454 girls) learners currently. CARE’s education sector has ensured that gender mainstreaming has been done in Dadaab education projects, with the main objective being provision of quality education to the refugees by equipping them with the desired knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to enhances their standards of life as refugees, and to prepare them for the challenges and roles awaiting them in case of possible repatriation or resettlement.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) CARE focuses on improving access to water and the efficiency of its supply to the refugee population. This is done alongside rehabilitation of the water reticulation system, through construction and maintenance of bore holes and storage of water. With the continued growth of the population in the Dadaab camps, disposal of solid waste has become an increasing problem which must be addressed to prevent potential health and sanitation related infections. CARE supports sanitation through cleaning of the camps, latrine construction, carcass burning among other activities.
Gender & Community Development Done through development programs that promote self reliance among the refugee population, through increased access to productive opportunities and sustained capacity development. There is a special focus on the youth who constitute 48% of the entire refugee population. CARE ensures that the basic needs and rights of the refugees are met and protected, while also building their capacity to cope and be integrated into society, post repatriation and/or resettlement. This is achieved through psychosocial support, vocational training of the youth and building the economic confidence of the vulnerable refugees through GS&L, and other income generating activities (IGAs). The strategy used for reaching out to the youth is through sports. CARE has a leading role in Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protection and response by promptly reporting and referring cases for counselling, protection and medical support in two camps, Dagahaley and Ifo.
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This involves the prevention of and response to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) in the camps, through multi -sectoral interventions that encompass safety, medical, legal, psychosocial and community reintegration measures. This project focuses on HIV/AIDS in the camps through delivery of preventive initiatives aimed at curbing the spread of the disease and mitigating the social and economic impact on infected and affected refugees.
Practice of Conflict Sensitivity The conflict sensitivity consortium was formed by 10 international NGOs: Action Aid, CAFOD, CARE International UK, International Alert, Plan International, Responding to Conflict, Saferworld, Save the Children UK, Skillshare International, and World Vision. The objective of the consortium is to provide international emergency humanitarian teams with a set of practical conflict sensitive approaches (CSA) that will help improve the conflict sensitivity of their work during the first 30 days of an emergency response. CARE International in Kenya is engaged in this consortium to improve policies and practices that support Conflict Sensitivity across a broad network of NGOs, local partners and donor agencies.
Major Donors The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Australian Aid, the Millennium Water Alliance, the Global Fund, the European Commission Humanitarian Office, the Centre for Disease Control & Prevention, the H. G. Buffet Foundation, the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Sternstumden Foundation, the RTL foundation, the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Food Program, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) , Proctor and Gamble ltd., the Danish Refugee Council, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), FSD Trust Kenya, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Barclays Bank and various other private and corporate donors.
CARE International members supporting current program CARE Australia, CARE Austria, CARE Canada, CARE Denmark, CARE Germany, CARE UK, CARE USA.
Contact Information
Bogdan Dumitru—Country Director Gary McGurk—Assistant Country Director Program Serah Ndegwa-Kamau—Deputy Director, Finance and Administration CARE International in Kenya Mucai Road Off Ngong Road Tel: +254 20 2710069 / 2712374 P.O. Box 43864 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya Email: [email protected] Website: www.care.or.ke
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