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DroughtAgain:TheHumanitarianCrisisI nKenyaDroughtAgain:TheHumanitaria nCrisisInKenyaDroughtAgain:TheHumDROUGHT AGAIN… anitarianCrisisInKenyaDroughtAgain:The Humanitarian Crisis in Kenya October 2009 TheHumanitarianCrisisInKenyaDroug htAgain:TheHumanitarianCrisisInKen yaDroughtAgain:TheHumanitarianCris isInKenyaDroughtAgain:TheHumanita rianCrisisInKenyaDroughtAgain:TheH umanitarianCrisisInKenyaDroughtAgaPrepared by: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of in:TheHumanitarianCrisisInKenyaDroHumanitarian Affairs in Kenya (UN‐OCHA) Kenya ughtAgain:TheHumanitarianCrisisInK enyaDroughtAgain:TheHumanitarianC risisInKenyaDroughtAgain:TheHuman itarianCrisisInKenyaDroughtAgain:Th eHumanitarianCrisisInKenyaDroughtA Contents ACRONYMS/GLOSSARY .................................................................................................................... 4 Background ............................................................................................................................................. 5 The Humanitarian Situation in 2009 ....................................................................................................... 6 Drought Progression ................................................................................................................................. 7 The El Nino phenomenon ....................................................................................................................... 11 Floods & Mudslides and Disease Outbreaks ....................................................................................... 11 El Nino Contingency Planning ................................................................................................................. 12 Financial Resources ................................................................................................................................. 14 Geographic Focus by Livelihood Clusters ........................................................................................... 16 Northern Pastoral Cluster ...................................................................................................................... 17 Livestock and crop production ................................................................................................................ 17 Market performance ............................................................................................................................... 18 Health and Nutrition ............................................................................................................................... 18 Water and Sanitation .............................................................................................................................. 18 Coastal Marginal Agricultural Cluster .................................................................................................. 19 Food and livelihood crisis ........................................................................................................................ 19 Livestock and crop production ................................................................................................................ 19 Water and Sanitation .............................................................................................................................. 20 Health and Nutrition ............................................................................................................................... 20 South-Eastern Marginal Agricultural Cluster ....................................................................................... 21 Food & Livelihoods crisis ......................................................................................................................... 21 Health and Nutrition ............................................................................................................................... 21 Education ................................................................................................................................................ 22 Water ...................................................................................................................................................... 22 Eastern Pastoral Livelihood Cluster ...................................................................................................... 23 Food & Livelihood crisis .......................................................................................................................... 23 Conflict .................................................................................................................................................... 24 Water scarcity ......................................................................................................................................... 24 2 UNOCHA Kenya http://ochaonline.un.org/kenya Livestock Diseases ................................................................................................................................... 25 Health ...................................................................................................................................................... 26 Nutrition .................................................................................................................................................. 26 Environmental Degradation .................................................................................................................... 26 Food Security in the Grain Basket ........................................................................................................ 27 The Grain Basket Assessment ................................................................................................................. 27 Performance of 2009 Long Rains & impact on Crop production ........................................................ 27 Impact of delayed/poor rains ............................................................................................................. 29 Factors affecting crop production ........................................................................................................... 29 Drought and its effects on vulnerable groups - Affected Populations .................................................. 30 1. Pastoralists ...................................................................................................................................... 31 2. Women and Children ...................................................................................................................... 32 3. Urban Poor ...................................................................................................................................... 33 4. Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) ................................................................................................ 34 5. Refugees .......................................................................................................................................... 35 6. The Youth ........................................................................................................................................ 35 CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................................................... 37 Common issues ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Food security prognosis .......................................................................................................................... 37 Future Prospects ..................................................................................................................................... 37 Addressing timely response .................................................................................................................... 38 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .................................................................................................................... 40 OCHA KENYA CONTACTS .............................................................................................................. 40 3 UNOCHA Kenya http://ochaonline.un.org/kenya ACRONYMS/GLOSSARY ASALs Arid and Semi-arid Lands ALRMP Arid Lands Resource Management Project CAADP Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme CBPP Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia CFR Case Fatality Rate CHAP Common Humanitarian Action Plan COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa CRC Crisis Response Centre CP Contingency Plan DMC Disaster Management Committee DPC District Peace Committee DSG District Steering Group EHRP Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan EMOP Emergency Operations Programme ERF Emergency Response Plan EWB Early Warning Bulletins FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations) F &MD Foot and Mouth Disease GDP Gross Domestic Product GAM Global Acute Malnutrition GoK Government of Kenya HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome IASC CT Inter-Agency Standing Committee Country Team IDPs Internally Displaced Persons IRIN Integrated Regional Information Networks (United Nations) Jua-Kali Small businesses KBS Kenya Bureau of Statistics KIPPRA Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis KFSSG Kenya Food Security Steering Group KRCS Kenya Red Cross Society KMC Kenya Meat Commission KMD Kenya Meteorological Department LRA Long Rains Assessment MoLD Ministry of Livestock