Summary of WFP assistance:
WFP's assistance in Kenya focuses on the most food insecure people living in chronically poor and marginalised areas where development lags markedly behind the rest of the country. WFP is currently providing food assistance in Kenya through a hybrid of transfer modalities of food and cash.
Through the Country Programme WFP supports: i) capacity of devolved county structures to better equip them to prepare, analyse and respond to shocks; ii) national school meals programme; iii) market access for smallholder farmers; and iv) the National Nutrition Action Plan.
Through the “Bridging relief and resilience in the arid and semi-arid areas” operation, WFP focuses on: i) harmonising relief and nutrition support with emerging government safety nets, including nutrition interventions; ii) building the capacities of county governments to provide emergency assistance; and iii) enhancing partnerships to build resilience, increase sustainability and prepare for handover. It complements the country programme and its focus on capacity development.
The “Food assistance for refugees” operation provides food assistance to refugees in Dadaab and Kakuma camps through general food distributions, supplementary feeding (malnourished children, mothers), food for hospitalised patients, and snacks for children in schools. WFP also provides support to the host community through food assistance for assets activities (FFA) and food for training (the latter is also available for refugees). The biometrics fingerprinting system introduced by WFP-UNHCR in Kenya in 2013 introduced new procedures in identification during food collection and accountability.
WFP Kenya has a “helpline” as part of its efforts to address gender, protection and accountability issues for affected persons. The telephone helpline has proven to be an efficient way to provide information to people assisted by WFP and other community members, solve operational problems, receive allegations of fraud and misconduct, and solicit feedback about WFP’s activities. The helpline covers over 1.5 million beneficiaries, 57 percent of WFP’s current caseload of assisted people. The Government’s Social Protection Secretariat has requested WFP support for the setup of a similar system for Kenya’s national safety net programmes.
The Government is in its second medium term plan of its development blueprint, “Vision 2030”. WFP’s assistance supports the new UNDAF, which is aligned with government priorities. WFP contributes towards Millennium Development Goals 1-7 and all the four Strategic Objectives