A Crisis
with a
Child’s
Face
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
• A. TWO EMERGENCIES
• B. WHAT IS UNICEF DOING?
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Nutrition
Health
Water Sanitation & Hygiene
Child Protection
Education
• C. HOW YOU CAN HELP UNICEF
A. There are two emergencies in Kenya:
1. Northern Kenya :
• Marginalization of communities
• Repeated droughts
• Pastoralists used to living with drought every 510 years, the time in between was used to rebuild livestock and food supply
• Now there is a shorter drought cycle, more
frequent and more intense
• Climate change and environmental degradation
Northern Kenya
Northern Kenya
(Lodwar District
Hospital –
Stabilization Unit)
Who is most affected?
• The most vulnerable in both emergencies
– Children under 5
– School aged children
– Children from poor households
– Unaccompanied children at risk of GBV
– Orphans
– Pregnant and lactating mothers
– The elderly
Northern Kenya
– People in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands in Northern
(Lodwar District
Kenya
Hospital)
A. There are two emergencies in Kenya (con’td):
2. Dadaab:
• Kenya host to Somali refugees for almost 20 years in
Dadaab camp and in host community
• Refugees fleeing famine and insecurity in Southern
Somalia
• Dadaab has 3 camps – Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo
• These camps have space for 90,000 but there are over
400,000 refugees
• The Government recently opened a new camp Ifo 2 to
accommodate 40,000 more refugees
• Highly congested and unsanitary
• About 8,000 refugees arrive every week
• Most of them women and children who are acutely
severely malnourished.
Dadaab
Dadaab
Dadaab
B. What is UNICEF doing?
MANAGEMENT OF MALNUTRITION
• Provided, 24,096 malnourished, pregnant and
lactating women with supplementary feeding
• With partners, scaling life-saving interventions to
reach 20,000 children under 5 with severe acute
malnutrition, 82,000 children under 5 with
moderate acute malnutrition in Therapeutic
Feeding Programmes
• Continuous provision of supplies and technical
support to health facilities e.g. 2,200 cartons of
Ready- to-Use Foods (RUTF) airlifted from Europe
reaching 2,500 severely-malnourished children
Management of acute malnutrition
We have a child survival crisis
• Lack of food and water resulting in moderate
and severely acute malnutrition
• Outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases
• Cholera
• Outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases –
polio and measles
Screening for weight for height
Mother feeding moderately
malnourished child Plumpy Nut
Health
• Integrated immunization campaigns for measles,
polio, deworming and Vitamin A, for 144,000
children
• 15,000 newly-arrived refugees immunized
• Procurement of 15 emergency kits (containing
antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs and oral
rehydration salts) – treating 10,000 people per
month
• 462 measles cases being treated in Garissa,
Moyale, Mandera, Marsabit, Pokot, Samburu,
Turkana and Wajir
• Emergency drugs distributed to Turkana District
Integrated Immunization Campaign
Immunization
(measles)
Immunization (polio drops)
Immunization (vitamin A)
Water Sanitation and Hygiene
• Water provided for about 22,000 refugees, by
providing 1,600 jerricans and 2 water bladders
(10,000 ltrs each)
• Water supplies for 60,000 people (2.3 million
chlorine tablets, 900,000 purification sachets,
23,000 buckets, 3,000 water filters and 31,000
bars of soap)
• Agreement with NGOs to dig 5 shallow wells and
to train water users’ committees in Marsabit
district
• Improvement of community boreholes with cattle
troughs, water kiosks and distribution networks
(Labisigele – near the Kenya Somali border)
Filling up jerricans at water points
Child Protection
• Enhancing and scaling up child protection services in
Dadaab refugee camp and Turkana district through
existing partnerships
• 700 children benefited from protective services in
existing child protection centres e.g. Eldoret (children
trekking from Turkana to Eldoret in search of basic
social services)
• Tents and 18 kits containing sports equipment and toys
provided for the child-friendly spaces in Dadaab
• Through the child-friendly spaces, Save the Children
and UNICEF have reached 2,155 vulnerable children
with psychosocial support and other services
• Supply of DIGNITY KITS for girls and women
Children playing in a child-friendly space
In the camps children are always at risk
Education
• Negotiations under way to construct low cost
structures in already congested school and on the
outskirts occupied by newly-arrived refugees
• 20 temporary learning spaces/classroom setups,
100 Education kits provided for 5,000 students,
60,000 Somali textbooks, 100 Early Childhood
Development kits for 5,000 children at
community level and 64 recreation kits provided
to 6,400 children and young people in Dadaab
• Supporting conversion of boarding schools where
attendance is very low to keep girls in school
• For example, in Fafi district, only 18% of children
are in school of which 9% are girls
Critical need for learning spaces
Critical need for learning spaces
How you can help UNICEF
UNICEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE LIST
SECTOR
ITEMS NEEDED
QUANTITY PURPOSE
Child Protection (10) VEHICLES
Nutrition (20)
4 WHEEL DRIVE
Education (8)
(2ND HAND)
38
• Accessing hard-to-reach areas with
nutritional and health supplies and
staffing (e.g. nurses.)
• Coordination of educational
emergency support (assessments,
information flow and monitoring of
supplies)
• Mobility to respond to cases of
gender-based violence
Nutrition (20)
Education (100)
TENTS
(Large, strong)
120
• Providing temporary learning spaces,
shelter at the stabilization centres
and storage space for supplies.
Child Protection
BUS
30-40 seater bus
(2nd hand)
1
Child Protection
STOVES
(maendeleo
portable ethanol
stove)
1,500
• Transportation of children from
transit centres to the camp
• To be used in the refugee camps
(reduction of indoor air pollution,
saves firewood and is safe and
portable)
UNICEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE LIST
SECTOR
ITEMS NEEDED
QUANTITY
PURPOSE
Child Protection
SOLAR LIGHTS
250
• Illumination of latrines and walkways
in the refugee camps.
Health
INTER-AGENCY
KITS (COMPLETE
KITS)
10
• Provision of health services: 1
complete kit provides drugs for care
and treatment of minor illnesses for
10,000 people for 3 months.
Health
MALARIA RAPID
DIAGNOSTIC
TESTS AND ACTs
(COARTEM)
5,000 each
• While malaria is not presently a
major threat, the possibility of rain in
October and an outbreak of malaria
in an already weakened population is
a real threat.
Health
RAPID HIV/AIDS
TEST KITS
10,000
• Supply of test kits for mobile clinics
will ensure displaced populations can
still be served through outreach
clinics and transmission of HIV from
mother-to-child can be avoided.
Health
CELLULAR
BLANKETS
5,000
• Many of the facilities in northern
Kenya are under-served, routine
supplies and beddings are needed.
UNICEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE LIST
SECTOR
ITEMS NEEDED
QUANTITY PURPOSE
Health
COMPLETE
MIDWIFERY KITS
36
• Support for health facility and home
deliveries in 36 districts.
Health
COLD CHAIN
EQUIPMENT, I.E.
GAS FREEZERS &
CORRESPONDING
CYLINDER
20
• Health facilities need freezers to
prepare their own ice packs to support
their outreach programmes.
Water, Sanitation
& Hygiene
MOBILE WATER
TANKER
5
• Distribution of water to distant
communities.
Water, Sanitation
& Hygiene
MOBILE WATER
TREATMENT
SYSTEM
5
• Help vulnerable communities to purify
their water resources.
Water, Sanitation
& Hygiene
WATER TESTING
KITS
10
• Ensure water safety in remote
communities
Water, Sanitation
& Hygiene
SUBMERSIBLE
WATER PUMP
10
• Help communities with water shortage
to pump ground water
Water, Sanitation
& Hygiene
POWER
GENERATING SET
5
• Reliable power supply is needed to
ensure that water can be pumped from
THANK YOU!