Evaluation of the Kenya Hunger Safety Net Programme Phase 2: Drought Emergency Scale-up Payments Process Review

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Publication language
English
Pages
38pp
Date published
24 Jan 2016
Type
Thematic evaluation
Keywords
Cash-based transfers (CBT), Drought, Protection, Recovery and Resillience
Countries
Kenya
Organisations
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Government of Kenya, Oxford Policy Management, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

This report presents findings from the process review of the Hunger and Safety Net Programme (HSNP) drought emergency scale-up payments, commissioned under the independent evaluation of the HSNP. The review provides an independent account of stakeholders’ experiences in the implementation of the first two rounds of emergency payments in April and May 2015.

HSNP is an unconditional cash transfer programme in the four most northerly counties of Kenya, Mandera, Marsabit, Turkana and Wajir. When running at full scale it aims to provide the poorest 100,000 households with a regular cash payment into a bank account, reaching up to an additional 272,000 households with emergency payments to help mitigate the effects of shocks such as droughts and floods. As of November 2015, almost 85,000 households receive regular payments. Over 90,000 households received drought payments in April and May 2015.