CHURCH WORLD SERVICE: EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
2006 KENYA DROUGHT APPEAL
Appeal # 641-G
Appeal amount: $754,000
February 7, 2006


SITUATION: With the failure of the current rainy season in northern and 
eastern Kenya, the already- precarious food security outlook within 
Kenya has worsened. Crop failure and depletion of livestock herds due to 
the prolonged drought have led to famine conditions with dozens of 
deaths reported in the arid areas. The districts affected include 
Mandera, Kajiado, Laikipia, Narok, Kitui, Taita and Turkana.

The government of Kenya has declared the famine conditions affecting 
parts of the country a national disaster and has called for national and 
international efforts to raise much needed aid to provide food for about 
2.5 million people, almost 10 percent of the population, over the next 
six months. Additional assistance is also required for the provision of 
water for both people and animals, restocking of livestock and provision 
of seeds to farmers in preparation for the next crop season.

RESPONSE: Church World Service is responding in Kenya as a lead agency 
in a multi-agency response that includes members of the Action by 
Churches Together (ACT) Nairobi Forum. In addition to CWS, these include 
Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Lutheran World Federation (Dept. for World 
Service) - Kenya/Sudan (LWF/DWS), Lutheran World Relief (LWR), Christian 
Aid and the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK).

CWS and its ACT and Kenyan partners plan to carry out a 12- month 
schedule of relief/rehabilitation activities, ending in January 2007, 
focused on supplementing and filling gaps of government of Kenya/World 
Food Program and other NGO efforts in the specified districts. 
Interventions include providing life-saving interventions that will 
address the immediate food and water needs of the most affected 
communities; food distribution; water tankering for domestic and 
livestock use; and borehole drilling and/ or repair in key specific 
areas of Mandera, Kajiado, Narok, Makueni, Kitui, Taita Taveta, Tana 
River and Turkana Districts.


BACKGROUND: Church World Service has in the recent past facilitated the 
Kenya Evangelical Church (KELC) and the National Council of Churches of 
Kenya (NCCK) in responding to the drought under ACT Appeal #AFKE 42. 
Last year, CWS supported the ELCK, through the ACT Rapid Respond Fund to 
respond to destruction that was brought about by storms in western 
Kenya.

In Kenya, CWS and its local and overseas partners have been involved in 
building the capacities of grass root churches and communities in order 
to equip them with the skills to monitor and respond to emergencies 
within their constituencies. This was done through Disaster Management 
Training (DMT) workshops targeting NCCK-member churches.

In this appeal CWS will be facilitating five implementing partners to 
respond to the needs of drought-affected communities in Kenya. The 
partners are the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK); the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK); the Kenya Evangelical 
Lutheran Church (KELC); the African Brotherhood Church (ABC) and the 
Community Resource Initiative (CRI), a local NGO.

This appeal is presented in two main sections - a project outline by the 
NCCK followed by a section on interventions by ELCK, KELC, ABC and CRI. 
Each member will have its own budget and will report against their 
financial plans.


:::NCCK: The NCCK and its member churches in Narok will be targeting the 
most affected areas of the district.

Specifically, NCCK will be implementing two broad interventions that 
will involve facilitating member churches to provide relief food to 
about 1,000 rural families -- each family has an average of five members 
-- in Narok. Further to this, NCCK will play a monitoring role in the 
implementation of relief food distribution. NCCK target beneficiaries 
include the elderly, expectant mothers, the disabled, women headed 
families and HIV/AIDS affected people as well as families who have lost 
their livestock because of the drought.


Highlights of response:

++ The project will purchase food to be distributed to 1,000 families. 
The purchases will include: 2,250 bags of maize -- 90kg each (13.5 kgs 
per month per person) and beans 400 bags (2.4 kgs per month per person).

This intervention will run for a period of three months after which the 
situation will be re-assessed and further intervention will be 
considered. Food shall be procured from the various vendors in Nairobi 
or Nakuru.

++ Food shall be transported to churches and other distribution centres 
identified within the affected communities. NCCK views member churches 
on the ground as an integral part of the affected community. Food shall 
be stored in either hired premises or church compounds. Food will be in 
the custody of relief committees. Distribution shall be done on a 
monthly basis.

++ NCCK has identified gaps in the current distribution pipeline and 
therefore will monitor the exercise within the districts. NCCK will 
identify 26 District relief food monitors and train them in the use of 
the monitoring tools. Other agencies distributing food including the 
government's efforts shall be monitored and the report shared with all 
the stakeholders.

++ Tools for monitoring the food distribution exercise will be 
developed. These shall include; an inventory of the names of all 
beneficiaries, venue of food distribution, distributing agencies, and 
ration received (Quantity) and items, names of authorizing persons and 
distributors etc.

++ Tensions over grazing land has resulted in pastoralist communities 
traveling to as far as Nairobi to graze their animals. NCCK shall 
attempt to manage such conflicts mainly through community leaders, 
provincial administration and the religious leaders.


In the post-crisis phase, the NCCK plans to purchase and distribute 100 
hay bailers for the Maasai pastoral communities in Kajiado and Narok 
districts to facilitate the Maasai cattle keepers to bail and store 
pasture for use during the dry season.

Budget includes: $163,878 in direct assistance for both crisis and 
post-crisis phrase and for monitoring costs.


OTHER CWS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS:

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya - ELCK
Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church - KELC
African Brotherhood Church - ABC (Makueni)
Community Resource Initiative (CRI)

:::Number, type and location of beneficiaries

+++ ELCK- The targeted beneficiaries of food relief comprise 20 Maasai 
villages/rural communities in the Kajiado area. The number of 
beneficiaries in these villages is 17,000 people -- including children, 
the elderly, the sick, the poor and expectant mothers. Within the 17,000 
food relief recipients, there are 8,750 people of five Maasai villages 
(Oltepesi, Enkeresuna, Indonyo, Namelok and Mopia) who will also benefit 
from the water supply.

+++ KELC - The target is 5,056 families, both rural and pastoral 
population.

+++ ABC-The church is targeting its relief assistance to a total of 300 
vulnerable families drawn from Maiani (100), Enzai(100) and Kamuthini 
(100) sub locations.

+++ CRI plans to assist a total of 1,700 families in the following 
areas: Masongaleni (483), Masimbani (550), Kyanguli (167), and Ulilinzi 
(500). It also plans to provide beans for 3months to 13,600 people in 
Masongalen (3,866), Masimbani (4,400), Kyanguli (1,068) and Ulilinzi 
(4,260).

Rehabilitation and recovery interventions will also be facilitated in 
water conservation and rehabilitation of water dams in areas. However, 
only vulnerable members will benefit from this assistance.

BUDGET - CWS -ELCK: TOTAL EXPENDITURE $185,102
BUDGET- CWS -KELC: TOTAL EXPENDITURE: $204,444
BUDGET- ABC and CRI: TOTAL EXPENDITURE:  $201,252

BUDGET FOR NCCK: $163,878
TOTAL: $754,676

(All figures include costs for direct assistance of food, transportation 
and staffing.)


Contributions to support this emergency appeal may be sent to your 
denomination or to Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN, 
46515. Please designate: 2006 KENYA DROUGHT APPEAL; Appeal # 641-G; 
(Reference: ACT #AFKE61)

For further information about disasters to which Church World Service is 
responding -- or to make a credit card contribution -- please visit the 
Church World Service Website at www.churchworldservice.org or phone 
(800) 297-1516.

CWS Emergency Response Program special contacts: (212) 870-3151;
International: dderr@churchworldservice.org
Domestic: lreedbrown@churchworldservice.org

CWS / ERP web site: www.cwserp.org

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