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Kenya Photo: Drost-Hansen Michael Kenya Photo: Michael Drost-HansenPhoto: OVERVIEW: Kenya has 475,000 refugees and asylum seekers of which 190,000 live in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Refugee FACTS: Settlement in Turkana County. Operational presence in Kenya since 1997 and registered as INGO in 2016. In 2018 we have assisted 98,290 individuals. ● Projects: 7 projects funded by Danida, the Danish TV Collection and World Economic Forum. 78% of individuals in the refugee camps targeted by DCA are ● Employees: 18 DCA staff (including 1 expat) and 40 community facilitators. women and children. ● Partners: DCA works with a dual modality – implementing directly as well as together with national partner organisations; Anglican Development Services North Rift (ADS), St. Peters Community Network (SAPCONE), National The ASAL region is a high-risk area for natural disasters including Council of Churches Kenya (NCCK), Lutheran World Federation Kenya (LWF) thereby supporting community-driven droughts and floods, and the most food insecure area in Kenya. solutions and sustainability. ● Institutional Capacity: Turkana and West Pokot Counties have some of Kenya’s lowest ● Roving humanitarian experts at national, regional and global levels who engage on localised durable solutions, and Human Development Indexes of 0,37 and 0,45 against the work on humanitarian policy issues pushing global commitments to the SDGs, Charter4Change, Grand Bargain, national average of 0,59. Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, and the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration. ● Member of ICVA, CaLP and the ACT Alliance, and signatory to the Charter4Change. Turkana is a conflict-ridden area involving disputes between ● Core Humanitarian Standards certified, solid global and localised Complaints Handling Mechanisms, and strong Anti- refugees and host communities, inter- and intra-community Corruption and Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policies and practices. conflicts as well as cross-border conflicts with Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia, primarily related to resources such as water, CONTACT: pasture, livestock, and fisheries. Country Director: Karin Elisabeth Lind // Email: [email protected] // Phone: +254 795 350 580 OCTOBER 2019 danchurchaid.org/kenya Kenya WHERE WE WORK: ● Country Office (Nairobi) SOUTH SUDAN ● Kakuma Field Office/Kakuma and Kalobeyei camps (190,000 people): DCA and partners work on livelihoods and resilience, financial inclusion, youth empowerment and entrepreneurship, water provision and conflict resolution. ● Lodwar Field Office/Lake Turkana and refugee host communities: DCA and partners work on livelihoods and resilience, ETHIOPIA financial inclusion, youth empowerment and conflict mitigation ● Kapenguria Filed Office/West Pokot: DCA and partners work on livelihoods, resilience and financial inclusion. Kakuma Kalobeyei DCA IS FOCUSING ON THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES IN KENYA: LAKE TURKANA DCA supports refugees and local communities in Turkana and West Pokot through rights-based, integrated humanitarian and Lodwar long-term development assistance, with a strong focus on women and youth. ● Livelihoods for Resilience and Self-reliance: climate-resilient agricultural production and value chain development, financial inclusion, cash-based programming, non-agricultural production, business and market development, fishing and livestock health and value chains, water provision and management. UGANDA ● Youth Empowerment and Gender: entrepreneurship and skills development, , youth voices (Kakuma Parliament), Kapenguria recreational and talent building (including Kakuma Premier and Diva’s League, and Kakuma Got Talent), inclusion and SOMALIA equality. ● Peace Building & Conflict Resolution: between refugees and host community, and between host community and cross- border communities in Uganda/South Sudan/Ethiopia. ● Innovation: We aim at mainstreaming innovation into everything we do through researching and testing innovative KENYA sustainable solutions. Among these are; ● Multi Storey Gardens – a kitchen garden bag designed to produce more crops with less water and taking up less space; ● Cricket Farming – an innovative solution to securing higher nutritional diet with less impact to the climate; ● Digital Learning and Accountability – digitalization of business training for refugee youth; and Listen Learn Act (LLA) tool which, through digital data collection and feedback meetings with affected populations, help us to better capture Nairobi perceptions and feedback and systematically consider it in our activities. Photo: Mathilde Berg Utzon DCA Kenya is grateful for the support from our donors: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK Danida TANZANIA OCTOBER 2019 danchurchaid.org/kenya.
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