Cumulatively below-average rainfall in the East causes poor harvest in marginal agricultural livelihood zones: Famine group 13.03.2021
ANKARA
The Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG) estimated that 1.4 million people in arid and semi-arid areas faced acute food insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or even worse outcomes during 2020, according to a report.
Cumulatively below-average rainfall across eastern Kenya caused a poor harvest in marginal agricultural livelihood zones in the East African nation as well as “declines in rangeland resources in pastoral areas driving Stressed, (IPC Phase 2) and Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes across northern and eastern Kenya,” said the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).
WFP Kenya Country Brief, October 2020
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US$ 5.7m cash-based transfers made
US$ 80.2 m six months (November 2020− April 2021) net funding requirements
1,029,930 people assisted in October 2020
Operational Updates
COVID Response
WFP continues to complement the Government of Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 situation. In October 2020, WFP expanded its cash-based COVID-19 response in Mombasa in collaboration with Mombasa County and the National Government targeting 96,000 residents from low-income areas who had not yet been targeted by the Government or other humanitarian partners with cash transfers and nutritional support. Training of health workers in nutrition and commodity management was completed and the first disbursement of the cash transfers completed.