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Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: October 01, 2016-April 11, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Every month

ASAP is an online decision support system for early warning about hotspots of agricultural production anomaly (crop and rangeland), developed by the JRC for food security crises prevention and response planning. The monthly hotspots data set is available below, but you can explore the hotspots on the ASAP Warning Explorer and access more contextual data on the downloads page. To learn more about the hotspots, refer to the warning classification methodology document.

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HDX HAPI Data for Kenya

HDX Humanitarian API Data

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 1997-December 31, 2028 ... More

This dataset updates: Every day

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: HDX HAPI - Data by Country

This dataset contains data obtained from the HDX Humanitarian API (HDX HAPI), which provides standardized humanitarian indicators designed for seamless interoperability from multiple sources. The data facilitates automated workflows and visualizations to support humanitarian decision making. For more information, please see the HDX HAPI landing page and documentation.

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Multiple locations - Conflict, Hunger and Aid Security Data

Insecurity Insight

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 13, 2020-April 13, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

This page provides data on conflict events affecting food insecurity in the form of the Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict (FIVC) datasets. Please get in touch if you are interested in curated datasets: info@insecurityinsight.org

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Kenya: Acute Food Insecurity Country Data

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: July 01, 2019-June 30, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: IPC - Acute Food Insecurity Classification

The IPC Acute Food Insecurity (IPC AFI) classification provides strategically relevant information to decision makers that focuses on short-term objectives to prevent, mitigate or decrease severe food insecurity that threatens lives or livelihoods. This data has been produced by the National IPC Technical Working Groups for IPC population estimates since 2017. All national population figures are based on official country population estimates. IPC estimates are those published in country IPC reports. There is also a global dataset.

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Kenya - Food Security and Nutrition Indicators

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

700+ Downloads

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2000-December 31, 2023 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: FAO - Food Security Indicators

Food Security and Nutrition Indicators for Kenya. Contains data from the FAOSTAT bulk data service.

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Kenya - Food Prices

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 1991-December 31, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: FAO - Food Prices

Food Prices for Kenya. Contains data from the FAOSTAT bulk data service covering the following categories: Consumer Price Indices, Deflators, Exchange rates, Producer Prices

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Kenya - Food Prices

WFP - World Food Programme

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 15, 2006-March 15, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Every month

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: WFP - Food Prices

This dataset contains Food Prices data for Kenya, sourced from the World Food Programme Price Database. The World Food Programme Price Database covers foods such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar for 98 countries and some 3000 markets. It is updated weekly but contains to a large extent monthly data. The data goes back as far as 1992 for a few countries, although many countries started reporting from 2003 or thereafter.

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Kenya - Socioeconomic Survey of Urban Refugees in Kenya - 2021

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: November 01, 2020-December 31, 2020 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Socioeconomic assessment of Refugees

Kenya hosts over half a million refugees, who, along with their hosts in urban and camp areas, face difficult living conditions and limited socioeconomic opportunities. Most refugees in Kenya live in camps located in the impoverished counties of Turkana (40 percent) and Garissa (44 percent), while 16 percent inhabit urban areas—mainly in Nairobi but also in Mombasa and Nakuru. Refugees in Kenya are not systematically included in national surveys, creating a lack of comparable socioeconomic data on camp-based and urban refugees, and their hosts. As the third of a series of surveys focusing on closing this gap, this Socioeconomic Survey of Urban Refugees's aim is to understand the socioeconomic needs of urban refugees in Kenya, especially in the face of ongoing conflicts, environmental hazards, and others shocks, as well as the recent government announcement to close Kenya’s refugee camps, which highlights the potential move of refugees from camps into urban settings. The SESs are representative of urban refugees and camp-based refugees in Turkana County. For the Kalobeyei 2018 and Urban 2020–21 SESs, households were randomly selected from the UNHCR registration database (proGres), while a complete list of dwellings, obtained from UNHCR’s dwelling mapping exercise, was used to draw the sample for the Kakuma 2019 SES. The Kalobeyei SES and Kakuma SES were done via Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI). Due to COVID-19 social distancing measures, the Urban SES was collected via Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). The Kalobeyei SES covers 6,004 households; the Kakuma SES covers 2,127 households; and the Urban SES covers 2,438 households in Nairobi, Nakuru, and Mombasa. Questionnaires are aligned with national household survey instruments, while additional modules are added to explore refugee-specific dynamics. The SES includes modules on demographics, household characteristics, assets, employment, education, consumption, and expenditure, which are aligned with the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) 2015–16 and the recent Kenya Continuous Household Survey (KCHS) 2019. Additional modules on access to services, vulnerabilities, social cohesion, mechanisms for coping with lack of food, displacement trajectories, and durable solutions are administered to capture refugee-specific challenges.

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Kenya - HungerMap data

WFP - World Food Programme

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 16, 2024-January 16, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: WFP - Food Security Indicators

HungerMapLIVE is the World Food Programme (WFP)’s global hunger monitoring system. It combines key metrics from various data sources – such as food security information, weather, population size, conflict, hazards, nutrition information and macro-economic data – to help assess, monitor and predict the magnitude and severity of hunger in near real-time. The resulting analysis is displayed on an interactive map that helps WFP staff, key decision makers and the broader humanitarian community to make more informed and timely decisions relating to food security. The platform covers 94 countries, including countries where WFP has operations as well as most lower and lower-middle income countries (as classified by the World Bank).

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IGAD Regional Focus of the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises

Food Security Information Network

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2016-December 31, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

The IGAD Regional Focus of the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises is the result of a collaboration between the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional economic community that forms one of the building blocks of the African Union. It provides a comprehensive assessment of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in the eight IGAD countries as well as trends over time, key drivers and populations of highest concern based on a rigorous methodology. It also presents available data and information on forcibly displaced populations and includes a spotlight on the conflict in Sudan and a focus on pastoralism, deep-diving into important issues for the region.

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IPC Acute Food Insecurity Country Data

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

1500+ Downloads

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2017-October 31, 2023 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: IPC - Acute Food Insecurity Classification

The IPC Acute Food Insecurity (IPC AFI) classification provides strategically relevant information to decision makers that focuses on short-term objectives to prevent, mitigate or decrease severe food insecurity that threatens lives or livelihoods. This data has been produced by the National IPC Technical Working Groups for IPC population estimates since 2017. All national population figures are based on official country population estimates. IPC estimates are those published in country IPC reports.

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Kenya - Energy Monitoring Framework Survey, 2021

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2021-December 31, 2021 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Energy Monitoring Framework Survey

The UNHCR Energy Monitoring Framework takes a program-based approach to monitoring, with the aim of tracking both outputs and the impact of UNHCR dollars spent on programming (either via partners or through direct implementation). The process for developing the indicators began in 2015 with a review of existing tools and approaches and consultations with Government, Private Sector, field-based staff and NGO partners to devise a set of common, standardized measures rooted in global good practices. More info is available on the official website: https://eis.unhcr.org/

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Kenya - Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS), Dadaab Refugee Camps - 2017

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: August 28, 2017-September 23, 2017 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - SENS Survey

The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. The refugee complex of Dadaab is home to an estimate of 208,000 registered refugees of which the vast majority are Somalis who fled conflict and drought in their home country several decades ago. The Dadaab refugee complex is situated in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia. Dadaab was established in the year 1991 following the beginning of the civil war in Somalia. Somalis were forced to flee as the war worsened, leaving to neighbouring countries including Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan. Today, Dadaab is home to refugees from many countries in eastern and central Africa, including South Sudan, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Somali refugees make up more than 90% of the population. Until early 2017, it consisted of five refugee camps. However, one of the camps, Kambioos, which was also the newest, was closed in March 2017 as refugees began returning to Somalia and the few remaining moved into the other camps. Ifo 2 camp was closed in May 2018 in line with the cam consolidation approach, with refugees either moving to the other camps or being repatriated voluntarily. Refugees live in mud-walled houses with iron sheeting roofs, while some, especially new arrivals, live in tents. The Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) was conducted in the 4 Dadaab refugee camps (Dagahaley, Ifo, Ifo 2 and Hagadera) between 28 August and 23 September 2017 by nutrition partners (MSF-Switzerland, Islamic Relief Kenya, International Rescue Committee and Kenya Red Cross) with overall coordination by UNHCR supported by WFP. After the increase in the prevalence of GAM observed in 2016 (10.2% weighted prevalence of GAM in all camps from 8.1% in 2015), the 2017 SENS indicated weigthed prevalence of GAM 9.7% which is close to what it was in 2016. The difference between the weighted prevalence of GAM in all the camps in 2016 and 2017 is not statistically significant. However, its to be mentioned that the prevalence of GAM in Dagahaley, Hagdera, and Ifo 2 camp is 8.3%, 8.6%, and 9.4% which is classified as POOR nutrition sitation, while in Ifo camp its 12.7% classified as SERIOUS nutrition sitaition as per the WHO classiciation of the public health significance. Overall, weighted anaemia prevalence showed a sharp increase among children aged 6-59 months to 60.7%, up from 49.7% in 2016. This is well above the 40% of public health significance (critical threshold) and requires attention. In all camps, anaemia was well above the 40% of public health significance (critical threshold). The children 6-23 age group had the highest prevalence of anaemia; however, the prevalence in the children 24-35 age group was also very concerning as it was above the critical threshold in all camps.

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Kenya - Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS), Dadaab Refugee Camps - 2018

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: August 20, 2018-September 09, 2018 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - SENS Survey

The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. The refugee complex of Dadaab is home to an estimate of 208,000 registered refugees of which the vast majority are Somalis who fled conflict and drought in their home country several decades ago. The Dadaab refugee complex is situated in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia. Dadaab was established in the year 1991 following the beginning of the civil war in Somalia. Somalis were forced to flee as the war worsened, leaving to neighbouring countries including Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan. Today, Dadaab is home to refugees from many countries in eastern and central Africa, including South Sudan, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Somali refugees make up more than 90% of the population. Until early 2017, it consisted of five refugee camps. However, one of the camps, Kambioos, which was also the newest, was closed in March 2017 as refugees began returning to Somalia and the few remaining moved into the other camps. Ifo 2 camp was closed in May 2018 in line with the cam consolidation approach, with refugees either moving to the other camps or being repatriated voluntarily. Refugees live in mud-walled houses with iron sheeting roofs, while some, especially new arrivals, live in tents. The Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) was conducted between 20 August and 8 September 2018 in the 3 Dadaab refugee camps (Dagahaley, Ifo and Hagadera) to assess the magnitude and severity of malnutrition, assess trends by comparison with previous years and support programmatic decisions. The weighted prevalence of global acutemalnutrition, the most important indicator, was 8.0% overall, falling within the POOR category (5-9%). However, there was a marked improvement from 9.7% in 2017. Only Ifo camp was within the SERIOUS category (10-14%). The high prevalence of anaemia remains a major concern, as shown by the anaemia prevalence among children which remained above the 40% critical threshold, despite having decreased. Anaemia prevalence among non-pregnant women jumped to 48.9% overall, from 43.6% in 2017 and was above the 40% threshold for all camps. Some improvement was recorded in terms of infant and young chid feeding indicators, although there is still room for improvement. The access to safe drinking water also continued to be satisfactory, while gaps were still observed in terms of sanitation. The duration of the food ration and dietary diversity basically reflect what has been observed in recent surveys.

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Kenya - Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS), Kakuma and Kalobeyei...

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: November 22, 2017-December 03, 2017 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - SENS Survey

The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. UNHCR conducted an annual SENS nutrition surveys in Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement. The 2017 annual Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) at the Kakuma Refugee Camps was conducted from 22nd November to 3rd December 2017. It was coordinated by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) with support from World Food Programme (WFP), International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Kenya Red Cross (KRC). The survey used SMART methodology and UNHCR SENS guidelines version 2 (2013) for implementation. While previous surveys indicated a steady decline in GAM prevalence between April 2010 and November 2014. There was a considerable increase in GAM prevalence in Kakuma from November 2015 and 2016. Though the difference was not statistically significant. However, in 2017 there has been a significant reduction in GAM prevalence in both Kakuma and Kalobeyei. There has also been a significant change in stunting for Kalobeyei, the same reduction was observed for Kakuma where stunting prevalence has reduced to below the 40% threshold of public health significance. Anaemia in children 6-59 months remains above the 40% threshold of public health significance for both survey areas but anaemia in women, 15-59 years was below 40%. A slight increase was observed in Kakuma while a reduction was observed in Kalobeyei. The November 2017 survey also shows an improvement in Vitamin A supplementation coverage, and water availability. Mosquito net ownership reduced for Kakuma and increased slightly in Kalobeyei. Mosquito net coverage for Kalobeyei remains far below the recommended 80% UNHCR target.

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Kenya - Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS), Kakuma and Kalobeyei...

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: November 19, 2019-December 31, 2019 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - SENS Survey

The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. UNHCR conducted an annual SENS nutrition surveys in Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement. At the time of the survey, the camp was hosting 186,515 refugees originating from 20 countries, comprised of 53.3% (99,320) males and 46.7% (87,195) females. These represented 148,295 from Kakuma and 38,220 from Kalobeyei and originating from 20 nationalities. The number of children under 5 years of age is currently estimated to be 20,468 from Kakuma and 7,576 from Kalobeyei or 15% of the total population. Women of reproductive age were 32,373 from Kakuma and 7,643 from Kalobeyei. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) HIS database (Nov 2018), the main countries of origin are currently South Sudan, 57.8 %, and Somalia, 33.6 %, with the remaining percent originating from various countries in the region including Democratic republic of Congo (6.5%), Ethiopia (5.6%), and Burundi (5.4%) among others Data collection started on the 27th November of 2019 in Kakuma and 8th of December of 2019 in Kalobeyei settlement. The overall aim of this survey was to assess the general nutrition and health status of refugee population and formulate workable recommendations for appropriate nutritional and public health interventions.

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Kenya - Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS), Kakuma and Kalobeyei...

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: November 26, 2018-December 09, 2018 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - SENS Survey

The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. UNHCR conducted an annual SENS nutrition surveys in Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement. At the time of the survey, the camp was hosting 186,515 refugees originating from 20 countries, comprised of 53.3% (99,320) males and 46.7% (87,195) females. These represented 148,295 from Kakuma and 38,220 from Kalobeyei and originating from 20 nationalities. The number of children under 5 years of age is currently estimated to be 20,468 from Kakuma and 7,576 from Kalobeyei or 15% of the total population. Women of reproductive age were 32,373 from Kakuma and 7,643 from Kalobeyei. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) HIS database (Nov 2018), the main countries of origin are currently South Sudan, 57.8 %, and Somalia, 33.6 %, with the remaining percent originating from various countries in the region including Democratic republic of Congo (6.5%), Ethiopia (5.6%), and Burundi (5.4%) among others Data collection started on the 26th November and ended on December 8th, 2018. The overall aim of this survey was to assess the general nutrition and health status of refugee population and formulate workable recommendations for appropriate nutritional and public health interventions.

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Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees - Round 5, 2021

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: March 29, 2021-June 13, 2021 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees

The participants of this phone interview were identified using mixed methods. Stratified random sampling were adopted for Persons of Concern (POC) to UNHCR based in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab and Urban areas. While a census were used for all PoCs who were 18+ years amongst the Shona community; this cohort forms 48.6% of the enumerated population of the Shona people. The survey was conducted at two levels; household and individual.

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Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees - Round 1, 2020

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: May 14, 2020-July 17, 2020 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees

The participants of this phone interview were identified using mixed methods. Stratified random sampling were adopted for PoCs based in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab and Urban areas. While a census were used for all PoCs who were 18+ years amongst the Shona community; this cohort forms 48.6% of the enumerated population of the Shona people. The survey was conducted at two levels; household and individual. 1,332 households were reached. The survey consent rate was 51 percent. From these households, 3,529 individuals were selected and interviewed.

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Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees - Round 2, 2020

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: July 16, 2020-September 18, 2020 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees

The participants of this phone interview were identified using mixed methods. Stratified random sampling were adopted for PoCs based in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab and Urban areas. While a census were used for all PoCs who were 18+ years amongst the Shona community; this cohort forms 48.6% of the enumerated population of the Shona people. The survey was conducted at two levels; household and individual. For the second wave, 4390 individuals were included belonging to 1735 households.

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Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees - Round 3, 2020

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: September 28, 2020-November 30, 2020 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees

The participants of this phone interview were identified using mixed methods. Stratified random sampling were adopted for PoCs based in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab and Urban areas. While a census were used for all PoCs who were 18+ years amongst the Shona community; this cohort forms 48.6% of the enumerated population of the Shona people. The survey was conducted at two levels; household and individual.

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Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees - Round 4, 2021

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 15, 2021-March 25, 2021 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Kenya - Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on refugees

The participants of this phone interview were identified using mixed methods. Stratified random sampling were adopted for Persons of Concern (POC) to UNHCR based in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab and Urban areas. While a census were used for all PoCs who were 18+ years amongst the Shona community; this cohort forms 48.6% of the enumerated population of the Shona people. The survey was conducted at two levels; household and individual.

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Kenya - Energy Monitoring Framework Survey, 2019

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2019-December 31, 2019 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Energy Monitoring Framework Survey

The UNHCR Energy Monitoring Framework takes a program-based approach to monitoring, with the aim of tracking both outputs and the impact of UNHCR dollars spent on programming (either via partners or through direct implementation). The process for developing the indicators began in 2015 with a review of existing tools and approaches and consultations with Government, Private Sector, field-based staff and NGO partners to devise a set of common, standardized measures rooted in global good practices. More info is available on the official website: https://eis.unhcr.org/

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Kenya - Energy Monitoring Framework Survey, 2018

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2018-December 31, 2018 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Energy Monitoring Framework Survey

The UNHCR Energy Monitoring Framework takes a program-based approach to monitoring, with the aim of tracking both outputs and the impact of UNHCR dollars spent on programming (either via partners or through direct implementation). The process for developing the indicators began in 2015 with a review of existing tools and approaches and consultations with Government, Private Sector, field-based staff and NGO partners to devise a set of common, standardized measures rooted in global good practices. More info is available on the official website: https://eis.unhcr.org/

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Kenya - Socioeconomic Survey of Refugees in Kakuma 2019

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: October 21, 2019-December 18, 2019 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Socioeconomic assessment of Refugees

Since 1992, Kenya has been a generous host of refugees and asylum seekers, a population which today exceeds 500,000 people. The Kakuma Refugee Camps have long been among the largest hosting sites (about 40% of the total refugees in Kenya), and have become even larger in recent years, with an estimated 67 percent of the current refugee population arriving in the past five years. In 2015, UNHCR, the Government of Kenya, and partners established Kalobeyei Settlement, located 40 kilometers north of Kakuma, to reduce the population burden on the other camps and facilitate a shift towards an area-based development model that addresses the longer term prospects of both refugees and the host community. The refugee population makes up a significant share of the local population (an estimated 40 percent at the district level) and economy, engendering both positive and negative impacts on local Kenyans. While Kenya has emerged as a leader in measuring the impacts of forced displacement, refugees are not systematically included in the national household surveys that serve as the primary tools for measuring and monitoring poverty, labor markets and other welfare indicators at a country-wide level. As a result, comparison of poverty and vulnerability between refugees, host communities and nationals remains difficult. Initiated jointly by UNHCR and the World Bank, this survey replicates the preceding Kalobeyei SES (2018), designed to address these shortcomings and support the wider global vision laid out by the Global Refugee Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals. Data was collected in October 2019 to December 2019, covering about 2,122 households.

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