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WFP Kenya Update: June 2013 17 July 2013

Highlights

Food security situation remained stable in most parts of Kenya following good performance of the rainfall season.

WFP has reviewed the community-based targeting and distribution (CBTD) manual to support partners in imple-mentation activities using various transfer modalities.

WFP was testing the use of biometrics in four out of seven food distributions centres in the refugee camps by the end of June.

WFP is preparing to transfer cash to schools in Isiolo County as part of a plan to develop a handover strategy to the government-run school meals programme.

WFP urgently requires contributions to meet needs over the next six months (July to December). Total resource shortfalls are US$89 million, of which US$50 million is for the refugee operation. The total resource shortfall also includes US$2.4 million required to provide humanitarian air service.

WFP :: Kenya Update :: June 2013

1. Food and Nutrition Security

The food security situation remained stable but stressed across the country following the relatively good rainfall performance during the March to May season. As a result, a substantial proportion of households can at least meet their minimum food requirements, with food crops such as maize, sorghum, millet and vegetables now more readily available and accessible. Increased water, pasture and browse for animals have improved livestock body condition considerably. Most animals have given birth leading to more milk supply. However, in some parts of the southeastern lowlands, the rainfall ended prematurely which may affect crop yields. Generally, food markets are functioning normally. Maize prices are expected to remain stable or decrease marginally in the main grain markets due to expectations of an average to above average long rains harvest, despite fertilizer distribution delays and increasing fuel costs. As a result, household food access is likely to improve through September. The food security assessment scheduled for July/August will confirm the impact of the rainfall season to drought-prone communities, and to overall national food availability.

A woman in Turkana County harvesting her sorghum while another winnow's chaff from it after harvesting in July 2013. The women partic-ipated in WFP’s food-assistance for-assets activities where they receive food in exchange for time spent learning how to harvest and conserve rainwater for crop faming.

PHOTOS: WFP/Rose Ogola


PRRO 200294: Food and Cash transfers – June 2013

Beneficiaries Tonnage (mt) Cash transfers (US$)

Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual

General food

distributions

(GFD)

43,800 88,319 (202%)

214 776 $177,750 0

Food Assis-

tance for

Assets (FFA) –

Food and Cash

Transfers

437,510 85,510

(20%) 517 1,113

(215%) $2,158,333 0

Targeted

supplemen-

tary feeding

(TSFP)*

84,830 54,531 653 301

TOTAL 566,140 228,360 1,384 2,190 $2,336,083 0

FFA— Households receive their entitlements at least one in month in arrears for each project work competed each month

TSFP – the approved project plan is 115,000 beneficiaries. However, the government is distributing its own supplies of Plumpy’Sup in some areas – WFP operational plan has therefore been reduced.

WFP has made comprehensive review of the

community-based targeting and distribution (CBTD)

system manual that contains guidance on beneficiary

targeting and food distributions in Kenya. The revised

guidelines take into account WFP’s shift from food aid

to food assistance, delivering a wide range of hunger

solutions. Among others, the new manual:

includes the three transfer modalities being used

by WFP (cash, vouchers and in-kind food) to be

considered as appropriate;

introduces seasonal livelihood programming that

considers the drivers of food insecurity during

different seasons;

emphasizes gender and protection issues in project

implementation; and

recognises the importance of a beneficiaries

complaints and feedback mechanism.

The old CBTD manual, which was developed in 1999 to

promote efficient use of resources using a ‘single food

pipeline’ was last revised in 2005.

WFP held a meeting with USAID, Food and Agriculture

Organization (FAO), ACDI-VOCA and African

Development Solutions (ADESO). The objective was to

discuss how to layer USAID’s Resilience for Economic

Growth in Arid Lands - Accelerate Growth (REGAL-AG)

and Improved Resilience (REGAL-IR) programmes with

those of the WFP/FAO joint resilience building initiative

in order to further the objectives of each programme.

The meeting agreed on the layering framework and

the terms of reference to guide the partnership going

forward.

Kenya is hosting one of largest refugee populations in the world. Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps had 547,000 refugees at the end of June. Of this, 427,000 were in Dadaab while the rest were in Kakuma. As of 30 June, four out of seven distributions centres in the camps had gone live in testing the use of biometric fingerprints when refugees are collecting

2. WFP Response in June 2013

Drought Recovery Operation (PRRO 200294)

Refugee Operation (PRRO 200174)

PRRO 200174: Food Distributions – June 2013

Beneficiaries Food tonnage (mt)

Planned Actual Planned Actual

General food distributions (GFD)

580,000 545,362

(94%)

9,744 9,684

(99%)

Targeted supplementary feeding programme – moderately malnourished children aged 6 to 59 months

15,000 12,034

(80%)

45 47

(104%)

Mother-Child Health & Nutrition (MCHN) – Chil-dren aged 6 to 23 months

35,000 22,192

(63%)

226 180

(80%)

MCHN – Pregnant & Lac-tating Women

26,000 22,929

(88%)

74 65

(88%)

School meals programme (SMP) including girls take home rations

71,000 108,475

(152%)

156 180

(115%)

Institutional feeding (Hospital, HIV, TB & other cases)

4,300 2,349

(55%)

42 11

(26%)

Food-for-assets (host com-munities)

36,000 25,645

(71%)

475 325

(68%)

Food-for-training (youth from host and refugee communities)

2,000 1,237

(62%)

18 4

(22%)


food. The remaining three camps will go live in July, with all collectors expected to go through the system from August. A review of test results, processes, risks and some fine-tuning to the systems will follow in September. WFP and UNHCR expect to switch from “test mode” to “no match, no food” by October 2013. The biometric system involves checking the identity of persons collecting food against biometric data held in UNHCR's registration database, to confirm that they are the legitimate holders of a UNHCR ration card.

Under the pilot fresh food vouchers project in Dadaab, WFP identified

69 traders who will supply fresh foods to pregnant women (and their

families). Contracts will be finalised and awarded in July. By the end

of June, about 6,000 pregnant women had been registered. The

women will receive fresh foods such as dairy and poultry products,

vegetables and fruits for themselves and their families (average

household size of five). The pilot will end in 2014 after which an

evaluation will establish its viability.

The Government’s Home-Grown School Meals Programme (HGSMP),

which aims to boost local food production and improve education

indicators, is confined to the less vulnerable marginal agricultural

areas thus far. The current model is wholly dependent on local

food production and functional local markets, and does not

support introduction of HGSMP to northern Kenya, which is

extremely arid and the residents are mostly nomadic pastoralists.

The northern region has inadequate food supply, undeveloped

markets and high food prices. To design a model suitable for this

region, WFP plans to transfer cash directly to the schools in Isiolo

County to purchase food to prepare school meals from September.

Simultaneously, a detailed study to support the design of a strategy

for the HGSMP in the arid areas is ongoing.

In preparation for the cash transfers, WFP and the Ministry of

Education trained 306 people in Isiolo (e.g. teachers, parents, county

education officials) on implementing HGSMP. The training covered: i)

cash disbursement procedures; ii) effective financial management;

iii) food procurement procedures; iv) community participation; v)

health/hygiene best practices; and vi) accountability and

transparency. WFP distributed copies of the HGSMP manual to the

schools. A complaints and feedback system (CFM), which is being

rolled out in other WFP activities in Kenya, will also cover schools

receiving cash transfers. The CFM offers a direct communication

channel (phone line) between beneficiaries/communities and WFP in

order to improve accountability and enhance programme quality.

Country Programme (CP106680)

A girl eating her lunch in a WFP supported school. To sup-port transitioning of the school means programme to the arid regions, WFP will pilot cash transfers to schools in Isiolo and develop a comprehensive strategy.

FILE PHOTO WFP

A refuge woman in Kakuma has her finger prints checked before proceeding to collect food

PHOTO: WFP/Rose Ogola


WFP and partners held a midyear review meeting to analyse achievements in building the capacity of smallholder

farmers since P4P began in Kenya. The participants included implementing partners (Ministry of Agriculture and non-

governmental organizations), farmer organizations (FOs), financial institutions and quality assurance companies. The

meeting noted that good progress has been made since some farmer organizations are now selling to other markets

besides WFP. Going forward, WFP will focus on linking FOs to more markets, graduating high-capacity FOs to become

regular WFP food suppliers and improving the storage and food handling capacity of FOs.

UNHAS has been providing dedicated air transport service to 40 humanitarian agencies within Kenya since 01 February 2013. The dedicated 37-seater aircraft has an estimated annual cost of US$4.6 million. Forty percent of the budget is being recovered through sale of one-way passenger tickets at US$150 per seat to Dadaab and US$200 to Kakuma. The operation requires further US$2.4 million to cover costs through December 2013.

WFP’s current six months shortfall (July through December 2013) for operations in Kenya is US$89.2 million. PRRO 200294 - Drought Recovery operation: The food pipeline does not currently have adequate Super Cereals, while other commodities will start running out from September/October onwards. There are no funds to meet cash transfer requirements from June onwards; this raises the risk of the debts accruing again if more funds do not become available soon. As of 30 June, shortfalls totalled US$36.9 million, of which US$15.1 million is for cash transfers. PRRO 200174 - Refugee operation: Recent internal borrowings averted pipeline breaks in July, but food

resources will begin running out from October and the loans need to be repaid from new cash contributions. The six-

month funding shortfall is US$49.7 million. Additional contributions are urgently required. The camps are located in

remote locations with very poor road infrastructure and since the next rainy season will begin in October, WFP

requires a three-month buffer stock to be prepositioned in the camps by end September ahead of the rainy season.

CP 106680 - Country Programme: The HIV and AIDS programme has a resourcing gap of US$227,000.

UNHAS has a shortfall of US$2.4 million to cover 2013 operational costs.

The needs and shortfalls are illustrated on the next page.

Sum of Hours Flown

No of Pas-sengers Flown

Quantity of Cargo Trans-ported (mt)

No of Flights Taken

February 2013

71 833 3.7 48

March 2013 63 801 4.3 46

April 2013 79 1,124 5.5 59

May 2013 94 1,156 5.6 66

June 2013 74 1,131 6.4 52

Total 381 5,045 25.5 271

United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)

3. Resourcing and Pipeline Summaries (July to December 2013 )

Purchase for Progress (P4P)


0

1

2

3

4

Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14

PRRO 200294 - Drought Operation - Cash Transfers (US$ Millions)

Needs Shortfa lls

-

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000


PRRO 200174 - Refugee Operation - Food in mt

Needs Shortfalls

0

5000

10000


CP 106680- Country Programme- Food in mt

Need s Shortfalls

Resource shortfalls

for food distributions

over the six months

period are US$21.8

million including un-

paid advances)

Shortfalls for cash

transfers in FFA are

US$15.1 million.

The shortfalls for the

refugee operation

are US$49.7 million,

including unpaid ad-

vance requests

Six months resource

shortfalls for the

Country Programme

are US$227,000

- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0


Food in mt

PRRO 200294 - Drought Operation - Food Distributions (mt)

Needs Shortfa lls

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