Kenya - Humanitarian Emergency Assistance to 2006 Drought Victims

The present intervention is relative to the Humanitarian Emergency Assistance to the 2006 Drought-Affected. It's designed because of the food security crisis occasioned by low rainfall and livestock deaths in the Northern and Eastern Pastoral districts of Kenya. The Emergency assistance should be channelled through the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP), which has a well established network in the country and has handled the last Bank Group assistance to the country. This assistance should target food distribution to households with insufficient crop production (as a result of insufficient rainfall), as well as those with no livestock or other sources of income (remittances, wage labour, etc) to purchase food and other basic needs; and widows, orphans, female- and elderly-headed households without visible means of support.