UNHCR Kenya Operations Weekly Update for the Week Ending Friday, 262626 ththth November 2010 over 100 aliens ordered to be deported to SocioSocio----PoliticalPolitical Developments Somalia by a Mombasa court. The effort was not Donors concerned over Kenya reform Agenda: successful as the GOK officials in Liboi changed Corruption, poor governance and the slow pace the court order. According the GOK officials, of judicial reforms remain key concerns among there was a “handing over” process, where 140 Kenya’s development partners although the Somalis were handed over to Somalia. Details of government has been urged for a commendable whom the hand over was made, was not job on the implementation of the new disclosed by the GOK. constitution. Speaking at the Third Development Host Community Relations: The CDC th Partnership Forum in Nairobi on Monday 29 members who visited the new arrivals on the November 2010, the World Bank Country Dagahaley camp periphery, and later saw the Director Johannes Zutt urged the government to proposed site for their relocation in Ifo 2, have stick to the Constitution implementation not yet reported back on their consultations with schedule. He reiterated his commitment to the community. Meanwhile, UNHCR and continue supporting the government in the partners have continued with development of the implementation of the new constitution and Ifo II site, with major infrastructural installations realization of vision 2030. such as schools, health centres and other public US ambassador Michael Ranneberger on his part facilities nearing completion. Progress has also said stamp out corruption and the culture of been made with regard to the construction of the impunity and called for prosecutions of all those 58 trial Interlocking Stabilized Soil Blocks implicated in corruption adding that suspending (ISSBs) shelters and the 58 mud brick shelters. tainted government officials was not enough. SO Kakuma Two Want Kenya House Dissolved: Chief Justice Evan Gicheru has been asked to advice Verification of Refugees in Kakuma: The President Kibaki to dissolve Parliament if it fails verification exercise for refugees in Kakuma to put in place two crucial Constitution commenced on Monday 22 nd November 2010. Commissions in 15 days. Two Kenyan citizens UNHCR has conducted similar exercises in the David Gitonga Amuru and Franklin Kamathi three Dadaab camps (Ifo, Dagahaley and Kamau want the House to stand dissolved if the Hagadera). The exercise which is being jointly Commission on Implementation of the conducted by UNHCR and the Government of Constitution and Commission on Revenue Kenya through the Department for Refugee Allocation are not approved. Last week, MPs Affairs (DRA) and the National Registration frustrated the adoption of commissioners to the Bureau (NRB) is expected to weed out two crucial teams. Two motions to approve the fraudsters among other things. In total, 2,184 names were defeated on the floor of the House individuals were verified between Monday 22 nd on the grounds that they did not reflect regional November and Friday 26 th November 2010. The balance. exercise, which will target more than 80,000 refugees, is expected to be completed at the end SO Dadaab of March 2011. Refoulement: UNHCR and the Refugee Canadian Donor and Somali Ambassador Consortium of Kenya (RCK) undertook a border visit Kakuma: On 25 November, the Somali monitoring mission to Liboi on 15 th November Ambassador to Kenya, His Excellency 2010 in an effort to prevent the refoulement of Mohamed Ali Nur visited Kakuma. The 1 Ambassador met with Somali community Fingerprint Verification: During the week, 199 leaders and community members in different individuals were verified with 14 of them (7%) parts of the camp and informed them his having been registered elsewhere. The intention to solicit the support of the cumulative total of those that have been international community and other persons of screened since the exercise began in August good will for the refugees in Kakuma and 2010 is 5440. Of these, 390 (or 7.16 %) have Dadaab. In separate development, William been found to have registered in other locations- Morneau, the Executive Chairman of Morneau Dadaab and Kakuma. Sobeco (MS), Canada and a team of three MS Internally Displaced Persons: UNHCR staff visited Kakuma between 23 rd and 25 th attended a meeting with the draft IDP policy November 2010. The four were on a sub-working group under the National familiarization tour of Kakuma camp and were Protection Working Group. At the meeting a accompanied to Kakuma by UNHCR’s timetable for finalizing the first draft of a cabinet Corporate Relations Officer, Ms Line Pedersen. memo for adoption of the National IDP Policy They visited schools, hospital, the reception was developed. Most of the background centre and refugee settlements. They also visited documentation required for this exercise is the proposed site of the Communication almost complete. It is planned to provide the Technology Access (CTA) centre and held MoSSP Permanent Secretary with the first draft meetings with key partners in e-learning. The by mid-December 2010. company is expected to partner with UNHCR in establishing a CTA centre for refugees in Community Outreach: UNHCR in conjunction Kakuma in 2011. The centre will benefit youth with the Department of Refugee Affairs in long distance learning and internet access. participated in a legal aid clinic session facilitated by the Refugee Resource Centre at BO Nairobi Eastleigh. The legal aid clinic was conducted to sensitize the refugee community on their rights Registration: During the week under review, and obligations, as well as to find out the 663 individuals turned up at the UNHCR BO challenges faced by refugees in the urban Nairobi Offices for registration. Of these, 286 setting. Refugees expressed the importance of were registered, including 63 individuals accessing education and income generating (mainly Congolese) who were issued movement projects. letters to travel to the camps. Another 377 asylum seekers were given appointments to Urban Refugee Protection Network: UNHCR return for registration at later dates thus bringing attended the inter-agency protection forum the number of applicants pending registration to which deliberated on the upcoming “16 days of activism” activities, the National Refugee Policy 11,551. A number of these applicants will have th to wait till 4 th July 2012 to be registered. Fifty and the celebration of UNHCR’s 60 seven percent of the new arrivals, the majority of anniversary. The forum agreed on standardizing whom are Somalis, claim to have arrived in practices on services offered to refugees, as well Kenya after January 2008 while 42 % arrived as setting up an inter-agency referral platform to between 2000 and 2008. share information on protection intervention regarding vulnerable cases. Registration Statistics 22nd to 26th November 2010 Total Registered Location Total BDI COD ERT ETH SOM SUD TAN in 2010 Nairobi 223 4 34 10 47 128 - - 13,325 Dadaab 1,291 - - - 45 1,240 6 - 56,432 Kakuma 152 10 17 1 - 58 65 1 10,387 Total 1,652 14 51 11 92 1,426 71 1 80,144 2 .