The number of people needing food assistance in Kenya has declined from 2.1 million (in August 2012 - February 2013) to 1.1 million, according to the 2012-2013 Short Rains Season Assessment Report.
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The significant improvement in food security is attributed to the good performance of the October to December rains coupled with ongoing humanitarian assistance especially in resilience- building activities. WFP is gradually transitioning from short-term interventions to recovery initiatives such as Food-for-Assets and Cash-for-Assets. Through these, WFP, in collaboration with the Government of Kenya, is helping communities to improve their resilience and adaptability to climate change while encouraging them to invest in their future. Currently, 70 percent of the interventions are in resilience-building with some 700,000 people benefitting from these projects, either through food distributions or through cash transfers.
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WFP is supporting some 540,000 refugees in the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps. These refugees get regular rations of food while refugee children in pre-primary and primary grades get a mid-morning snack at school. WFP also runs supplementary feeding programmes to address both the risk and the reality of malnutrition in the camps. To this end, special fortified food is given to all children below the age of two years as well as to moderately malnourished children below the age of five years, and to pregnant and nursing mothers. WFP plans to reach about 80,000 children and mothers who fall in these categories.
In arid and semi-arid areas, WFP plans to reach some 115,000 moderately malnourished people during the course of 2013. They include children under the age of five as well as pregnant and nursing mothers.
School meals remain an important safety net for many communities. WFP provides school meals to 600,500 children in 1,700 schools in the northern arid districts and in the slums of Nairobi. WFP also provides a mid-morning meal for all primary and pre-primary school children at the refugee camps and a take-home ration for girls to encourage their enrolment and attendance. In the semi-arid regions of the country, Kenya’s Ministry of Education is feeding another 670,000 school children through the Home Grown School Feeding programme. Having previously managed the programme, WFP is now building the capacity of the Government to oversee it, particularly in areas such as procurement, and monitoring and evaluation.
WFP is linking small-scale farmers to markets through its Purchase for Progress programme, known as P4P. Working with partners, WFP also builds the capacity of smallholder farmers in the areas of procurement, food storage and warehouse management, quality control and record-keeping.
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Kenya is a low-income, food-deficit country with a GDP per capita of about US$977 (IMF, 2012) and a Gross National Income (GNI) of US $1,720 (World Bank, 2011). The 2012 UNDP Human Development Report ranks Kenya among the “low human development” countries of the world, placing it 145th out of 186 countries. WFP operations in Kenya support the Government's efforts in implementing all eight Millennium Development Goals and Kenya’s Vision 2030, the country’s national development blueprint.
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