Kenya

Allocation	$8,001,346
Emergency type	Drought
Window	Underfunded Emergencies
Recipient UN Agencies	FAO, IOM, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, WHO
Group(s) of people targeted	Refugees, Other affected persons
Number of people targeted	702,250
Status	Under Implementation
Allocation code	23-UF-KEN-59685
Title	Kenya UF Application Jun 2023 (drought)

Overview of the humanitarian situation

The drought situation in Kenya remains critical, affecting 22 of the 23 Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) counties. Some 4.4 million people are in need of assistance. Over 970,200 children under 5 and 142,170 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers are acutely malnourished and need treatment. Drought-affected communities are enduring communicable disease outbreaks, including an ongoing cholera outbreak with 10,300 cases

CERF-funded assistance

Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) Martin Griffiths has allocated $8 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to support life-saving assistance .This funding enables UN agencies and partners to provide lifesaving assistance through Multi-Purpose Cash, Health, Multi-Sector Refugee Assistance, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Protection- Gender-Based Violence, Education, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and Agriculture sectors to 621,971 people, including 135,350 women, 25,621 men, 461,000 children, and 10,854 people with disabilities

Projects included in this allocation

Organization	Project title	Code	Amount in US$
FAO	Mitigating the impact of drought for the most vulnerable pastoral and agropastoral communities of Turkana and Wajir Counties	23-UF-FAO-019	US$500,000	Read more
IOM	Provision of Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) to address the most urgent needs of drought-affected communities in Kenya	23-UF-IOM-024	US$1,201,435	Read more
UNFPA	Provision of integrated life-saving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) services to mitigate effects of the drought emergency in Turkana, Wajir, Mandera and Marsabit counties in Kenya.	23-UF-FPA-025	US$800,000	Read more
UNHCR	Provision of cash, protection and services for refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities in the camps in Dadaab and Kakuma areas.	23-UF-HCR-022	US$1,000,000	Read more
UNICEF	Support life-saving WASH drought emergency interventions for vulnerable girls, boys, women and men targeting schools with linkages to communities and Health care facilities in Marsabit and Mandera Counties	23-UF-CEF-034	US$1,000,000	Read more
WFP	Provision of School Meals to vulnerable school children in four Drought stricken Counties of Kenya	23-UF-WFP-029	US$3,000,000	Read more
WHO	Emergency lifesaving health response to cholera outbreak in the select drought -heightened counties of Mandera, Marsabit, Turkana, Wajir, Garissa-Refugees (Dadaab) in the Kenyan northern corridor targeting affected children, women and men	23-UF-WHO-027	US$499,911	Read more