GREATER MOYALE DISTRICT

(MOYALE AND SOLOLO
DISTRICTS)

DROUGHT ASSESSMENT SITUATION
REPORT PRESENTED DURING THE ECHO VISIT

JULY, 2011

MOYALE DISTRICT BACKGROUND

Moyale District is one of the districts that make up the
larger Eastern Province and covers an area of 9370.90
km2. It borders the Republic
of Ethiopia to the North,
Chalbi District to the South West and Wajir North District to the Southeast. It
lies between latitude 02011 North and 0204 North and longitude 38016 East.

Administratively, the greater Moyale has been sub divided in
to two districts namely Moyale and Sololo districts. Moyale has two
administrative units namely Central and Golbo Divisions with Sololo having Obbu
and Uran divisions. The district is in Moyale Constituency together with Sololo
district and one local Authority with 16 electoral wards.

FEATURES

The district lies within the arid and semi-arid zone (ASAL
category). It has diverse physiographic and natural conditions ranging from
high plateau hills (800-1,200m) along the Kenya Ethiopia border to flat low
lying plains stretching further south to the neighboring districts of Wajir and
Isiolo

The district has no permanent rivers. It has a bimodal
rainfall pattern averaging 300mm per annum during the long rains (March- May)
and 250mm during the short rains (October to December) on a normal year. This
year no rainfall that has been evenly distributed except in some pockets that
received less than 20 mm of rainfall in the long rains period. This low
rainfall coupled with high evapo-transpiration rates reduces crop productivity
thus making the district vulnerable to drought leading to reliance on relief
food throughout the year.

SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE

Moyale district
has a harsh climatic condition with low rainfall patterns, high temperatures
and sporadic prolonged droughts only favorable for camel and goats rearing. The
communities are mainly nomadic and sedentary pastoralists, keeping camels,
cattle, goats and sheep both for milk and meat as their main sources of
livelihood. Permanent settlements are concentrated around the water points,
which are also administrative and political headquarters of the District.
However most of these settlement structures are semi permanent in nature apart
from churches, health centers and schools while the outskirts are characterized
by sporadic random mosaic type of settlement.

The District has three livelihood zones, pastoral,
agro-pastoral and formal employment/business trade with 85% of the inhabitants
being nomadic and sedentary pastoralists mainly depending on livestock and
livestock products, therefore the settlement patterns are determined by the
availability of pasture and water for the livestock keepers.  The Agro-pastoral communities are
concentrated in the northern part of the district bordering Ethiopia with favorable weather
condition for farming. This zone covers one division which includes the
northern part of the Central Division and the eastern. The other parts of the
above mentioned division and Golbo division lie in the pastoral zone of the
district with a small percentage lying in the urban centers with high
concentration mainly in Moyale township. The district population comprises of
42,018 males and 38,532 females in 12,599 households, area is Sq KM of 2,770.10
and population density of 29, with Sololo comprising of 12,273 males and 10,976
females.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

Livestock
sub-sectors remain the mainstay of the District’s economy and source of
livelihood for the people of Moyale. It is estimated that 80% of the population
depends on livestock with close to 20% of the population drawing their
livelihoods from agro-pastoralism.

The district
experiences a bimodal rainfall pattern with long rains in March to May and
short rains in October to December, which are often inadequate and erratic,
thereby leading to continuous droughts. The basic livelihoods for Moyale
community include Marginal crop cultivation (drought tolerant) and livestock
keeping, mainly the indigenous breeds of goats, cattle, camel and poultry. The
crop farming is characterized by frequent crop failures.

The
livestock-marketing trend has been erratic due to the cultural beliefs and
practice of the pastoralists, which promote keeping animals for cultural prestige.
Livestock species kept are local indigenous species, and the production
technology is traditional nomadic pastoral system. Poor communication
infrastructure, lack of market information and frequent or permanent quarantine
have also hindered effective marketing of livestock in the lower catchment
leading to low prices and the negative attitude towards selling of their
livestock.

Most pastoral
production activities are linked to survival tactics rather than to long term
strategic planning.  These include
sophisticated risk spreading or risk minimizing priorities based on an intimate
knowledge and understanding of their environment.  Activities, which realize immediate
benefit enabling them to subsist, are the usual choice.  Thus, for example, the stock herders’
primary objective is survival for themselves and their stock. Large herds are
kept which contain a high proportional of breeding females.  The system evolved is thus less risky
than traditional dry land farming, more economical and less taxing on the
environment; above all it is demonstrably sustainable.

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
CHALLENGES

Moyale district
faces a number of development challenges, some of the key challenges includes

Insecurity, the
main insecurity related issues include foreign invasions at the border of Kenya and Ethiopia, cattle rustling and theft
among the community, tribal conflicts and banditry along Adis-Ababa-Nairobi
road (A2).

Poor Road
Infrastructure: Lack of well maintained and efficient physical infrastructure
is key development challenged in the district. Road network in the district is
poor and hinder accessibility of the district especially during the rainy
season

Food insecurity
in the district is also a major development challenge this is caused by the
climatic condition of the district, resources are also diverted to mitigate the
effects of food insecurity leaving very few resources for development activity.
The district also heavily relies on relief food.

Water: The district
has inadequate water for domestic, livestock, crop and industrial use.  The rainfall is inadequate and
unreliable.  The ground water
resources are low and saline because of the basement rock systems this poses a
challenge to development.

Illiteracy: Due to
the prevailing poverty situation among the population, there is a high rate of
school drop outs and poor transition level from primary to, both secondary and
Tertiary colleges that has mainly contributed to the high illiteracy rate and stagnant human
resource development in the District

The youth population in Moyale district
comprises of the majority. This is therefore a big challenge especially due to
the fact that they are hard hit by unemployment and drug abuse.

Moyale is
surrounded by Ethiopian highlands which receive rain regularly.  Most of the area is plain with water
logged soils, during rainy season some areas of Moyale district are flooded
leading to crops and property damage.
The road becomes impassable with road slabs and bridges being washed away
leaving local people vulnerable to disease and hunger. Consequently the
affected people rely on relief food to cushion the effects of the disaster.

CURRENT DROUGHT SITUATION OVERVIEW

The current
drought situation in the greater Moyale has worsened aggravated by the fact
that the long rains have completely failed leading to complete crop failure,
poor regeneration of pastures and acute shortage of water for both human and
livestock use. Food insecurity has increased at the house level leading to high
cases of malnutrition more severely in the under five children. Livestock herds
have migrated outside towards Isiolo with some crossing border to Ethiopia in
search of pasture and water.

According to the
monthly bulleting by the Arid Lands Resource Management Project, the situation
has worsened with livestock prices coming down drastically. For instance prices
for catlle have hit a low of Ksh 3000, goats Ksh 2000 and camel Ksh 20000. Deaths
in livestock are reported to be at 4.6% for cattle, 2.68% sheep, 1.96% goats
and 2.38% for camel in the district.

The district
steering group has been spearheading relief food distribution efforts and
several peace meetings held by the District Peace and Reconciliation Committee
DPRC to handle case of conflict over the use of resources within the district.

Few pans have
been filled by the torrential floods from the Ethiopian highlands with the
lowlands still dry with no water. No water for livestock use with distances
averaging 4.5 km with 1.5 hours spent. Feeds for grazers have not been able to
replenish with a few browse for camels only.

Sector reports

Livestock and Veterinary
department

Ongoing livestock drought
related problems

1.
Scarcity
of pasture and poor quality of forage

Pasture
regeneration is quite poor with sparse vegetation cover.

2.
Depleted
water sources.

Low
replenishment of available water sources due to erratic and poor rainfall
distribution patterns. This has led to over utilization of available water
sources by both man and animals.

3.
Poor
nutrition predisposing livestock to opportunistic diseases such as worms
infestation, pneumonia, mange and nutritional imbalances.

4.
Abnormal
livestock migrations

Severe pasture
depletion has led to unprecedented livestock movements to far off places both
within kenya and across
borders into Ethiopia.

5.
Environmental
degradation due to livestock influx in the few areas with available pasture.

6.
Resource
based conflicts.

Human
to human conflicts and human to livestock conflicts over competition to use the
scarce little available resources (water and pasture).

7.
Decreased
livestock productivity

Due
to decreased feed intake milk production, carcass quality and fertility rates
have declined drastically with subsequent increase in livestock mortalities.

8.
Drought
related livestock plant poisonings

Toxic
plants seem to be the only predominant drought resistant plant species easily
accessible to livestock during dry spells.

9.
Bush
encroachment.

Continuous
overgrazing on desirable plant species has led to emergence of undesirable bush
cover

Current drought mitigation
exercises:

1.
Livestock
destocking- emergency livestock slaughter and distribution of meat as relief to
vulnerable communities. These was conducted by gok, cifa and kenya redcross
society

2.
Mass
vaccinations, treatment and deworming of livestock conducted by : gok, cifa and
worldvision

3.
Livestock
feed supplementation by gok.

4.
Livestock
branding by gok to minimize cattle rustling and enhance livestock traceability.

5.
Capacity
building of community based organizations/cbahws through workshop trainings on
improved animal health and production, pasture preservation and enclosures, hay
making, livestock emergency guidelines and standards and supply of starter kits
to community based animal health workers. Trainings and workshops have been facilitated
by the government and non-governmental organizations such as cifa, worldvision
and care international.

6.
Construction
of modern regional slaughter house under the government’s economic
stimulus program at Odda.

7.
Upgrading
Moyale livestock market and inception of a livestock market in sololo district.

8.
Distribution
of pasture seeds by gok and world vision.

Gaps:

1.
Insufficient
resource allocation: - inadequate funding, inadequate drugs and lack of technical
personnel.

2.
Lack
of long term and sustainable drought mitigation strategies.

3.
Poor
information dissemination on livestock disease surveillance and early warning
systems.

4.
Accessibility
due to poor road networks and infrastructural development.

5.
Uncontrolled
cross border livestock movement

6.
Local/international
livestock trade barriers

7.
Unsynchronized
Kenya - Ethiopia cross
border disease control strategies.

8.
Delayed
response and interventions from relevant stakeholders.

Recommendations:

1.
Livestock
species variation and rearing improved drought tolerant breeds.

2.
Promote
commercial destocking through regular trade of livestock.

3.
Community
sensitization on environmental conservation.

4.
Pasture
re-seeding/preservation

5.
Supplementary / alternative livelihoods mechanisms
such as agro-pastoralism.

6.
Asset
protection through contingency planning and increased livestock budgetary
allocation from all relevant stake holders.

7.
Upgrade
capacity building and training at community levels

8.
Harmonize
wet season/dry season grazing systems.

9.
Upgrade
livestock diagnostic treatment and disease control measures at the departmental
level.

10. Review international livestock
trade barriers and explore new potential terminal markets from our regional
borders and globally.

11. Additional strategically sited
water sources for livestock in grazing fields to minimize competition between
livestock and domestic water consumption.

Agriculture department

Food security situation

(A)
Prevailing Problems (Current)

1.  Food shortage to the entire farming
population

2.  Malnutrition resulting in reduction in
man power efficiency in farming

3.  Low planting crop seeds availability

4.  Drying of water pans resulting in
failure of irrigated crops from such sources

5.  Crop pests and diseases occurrences ever
before failure due to moisture stress

6.  Recurrent crop failure which has reduced
farming population affordability to

Purchase farm inputs
like seeds, farm chemicals and tools

7.  Insufficient funds for capacity building
of the farming community/population

8.  Wildlife/human conflict over available
fields crops under irrigation

9.  Land degradation

10. Cultural
preference to livestock keeping than crop farming

11. High
illiteracy levels

(B)
What is being done:

1.  Introduction of green house farming as
an alternative to rain fed farming.

2.  Introduction of water harvesting
technologies for crop production (on farm

Structures).

3.  Excavation of new pans and Desilting of
old ones for irrigation

4.  Seed distribution though not enough

5.  Capacity building

(C)
Gaps

1.  More funds for construction of water
harvesting structures

2.  More funds for capacity building

3.  Staff shortage

4.  Surface water sources for irrigation

5.  Farm inputs shortage like tools and
chemicals for pest and disease control

(D)  Recommendation

1.  Timely release of funds for
interventions

2.  Increase Stakeholder collaborations

3.  Strengthening of local institution like
the Deedha Council for Management of

Resources

Water
sector

THE CURRENT DROUGHT SITUATION

The current
drought situation has been worsened by failure of three consecutive rainy
seasons which are the long rains of 2010, the short rains of 2010 and the long
rains of 2011. While the degree of failure of each season varied from one place
to another, the cumulative effect of it all was quite devastating resulting
into acute water shortages, lack of pasture and general food insecurity. Both
human and livestock population had to trek for long distances in search of
water and pasture. This led to massive livestock deaths, Malnutrition in
children and general hunger across the population which has left the pastoralist
a desperate and destitute lot.

At a glance, the
situation along the ridges could be deceiving at times as occasionally the area
receives light showers and flood waters which are a spillover from the
Ethiopian side. This has helped replenish some of the pans which fall along
such flood routes.

DROUGHT INTERVENTION MEASURES
UNDERTAKEN

The drought
intervention measures in Moyale district started way back in August 2010,
following the poor performance of the long rains. At the time, only Ministry of
water and irrigation carried out low key interventions in the form of water
trucking to 6 community centers and borehole maintenance. This was faced by
several challenges such as lack of funds and transport. But as the short rains
also failed, there was need for broader interventions.  The much needed
interventions did not come as quickly as was required, at least not until
towards the end of January when the ministry of water and irrigation allocated
Kshs. 3.0 million each to Moyale and Sololo district which was used to clear
some of the past debts and carry on with interventions. Other stakeholders
also come on board and the following activities were undertaken:-

1.
Ministry of water and
irrigation- Water trucking to communities.

-
Fuel subsidy for borehole water supplies-3000
litres diesel.

-
Hire of private bowsers to do water
trucking.

-
Repair and maintenance of borehole water
supplies.

2.
Kenya Red
Cross Society     - Support to community water
trucking activity.

3.
Arid Land Resources Management
Project

- Fuel subsidy to borehole water supply.

-
Provision of fuel for GOK
bowser.

4.
Cordaid through CIFA
- Support water trucking activity to the community

5.
Moyale county council
-  Support water trucking
activity to the community

6.
World vision (IGPA)
- Provision of fuel subsidy
to borehole water supplies.

7.
CDF –Moyale
constituency   - Fuel subsidy to boreholes water supplies
– 3000 litres of diesel and 1200 bales of hay to livestock

However, with the
onset of the long rains all the stakeholders pulled out of the drought
mitigation activities hoping the rains will bring relief. But this did not come
to pass as the long rains also failed
with the ridges only receiving light showers for three (3) days while the
Southern lowlands remained dry throughout.

CURRENT AND ON GOING DROUGHT
MITIGATION ACTIVITIES

As the drought
condition in the area remained, there was
need for continued support for the drought mitigation effort in the
district. Towards supporting this, the ministry
of water and irrigation provided Kshs. 1.5 million each to Moyale and Sololo
districts in May 2011. The following are some of the ongoing drought
mitigation activities carried out by the ministry of water and the support provided by the partners
(Stakeholders).

1.
Ministry of Water and
Irrigation  - Water trucking to
affected communities- Fuel, allowances And vehicle maintenance) .

- Fuel subsidy to
borehole water supplies

- Provision of borehole spare parts and equipments.

- Electricity bill payment for water trucking Odda borehole.

- Emergency borehole repairs and maintenance.

2. Arid Land
Resources Mgt Project
- Provision of pump and
borehole spare parts.

3. Cordaid
through CIFA
- Provision of b/hole maintenance tools and equipments.

4. World Vision
(IGPA)
- Low level water trucking
to communities.

The situation as
it is and the fact that the drought situation might continue up to end of
October 2011, this means there are over 90 days of the drought ahead to be
planned for.

PROPOSED EMERGENCY
INTERVENTION PROGRAM

In order to
effectively address the remaining drought period, the following short and long term interventions are proposed:-

1.      Short Term Intervention

Support
to water trucking to the following areas –

Moyale district – Laqi,Missa, Dir dima, Gola, Guyo timo, Mansile, Hadessa, Dadach
Lakole, Har saqo, Watiti, Godoma Didiko and Illadu.

Sololo district –Funan Qumbi, Anona, Amballo, Mado Adhi, Damballa Fachana, Badan
Rero and Sololo makutano. Estimated cost – Kshs. 3.0 million.

(a)   Provision of fuel subsidy to borehole water supplies both in Moyale
and Sololo (27 No) estimated at Kshs.
2.1 Million

(b)   Support to emergency borehole maintenance through provision of
gen-set spare parts and allowances for the team. Estimate Kshs. 1.5 million

(c)    Provision of stand-by pumps
2 No and gen-sets 2 No
estimated at Kshs. 3.4 million

2.      Long Term Intervention

(a)
Carry out proper
hydro-geological survey and drill 2 No strategic boreholes in the southern
lowlands to enable pasture utilization. Estimate Kshs. 9.0 million

(b)
De-silting and expansion of 10
No surface water pans. Estimate Kshs. 30.0 million

(c)
Drilling of replacement
borehole at Godoma and Qate
Estimate Kshs. 6.0 million

HEALTH AND NUTRITION
SECTOR

CURRENT SITUATION IN MOYALE DISTRICT

1.
Malnutrition-increased
trends in admissions in the targeted feeding programs

Comparison of admission
trends into therapeutic feeding programmes (2010-2011)

Comparison of admission trends into supplementation
feeding programmes (2010-2011)

2.
Morbidity-rising
trends compared with same reporting period last year (moh Health records)

3.
Increased
Mortality –compared with same reporting period last year (moh Health
records)

4.
Poor
hygiene and sanitation- poor hand washing practices, low toilet coverage (37%)
and accessibility (57%), (moh and nutrition survey 2011)

5.
Inaccessibility
to safe water at the health facilities and at household level

ONGOING INTERVENTIONS

1.      Integrated nutrition and
health interventions providing a full package of the High Impact Nutrition
Interventions (HINI) at the health facilities- 100% for all functional  health facilities in the district-moh/Concern

2.
Increased early detection and referral of malnourished
cases for management and to prevent deterioration of the nutrition status
(moh/Concern)

3.
Integrated outreach with a full package of health and
nutrition interventions in the hard to reach areas and thus increasing
accessibility (moh and Concern)

4.
Strong
collaboration and coordination between various actors (moh, Concern, UNICEF,
WFP, World Vision, CIFA, APHIA plus, Catholic Diocese of Marsabit).

5.
Capacity
building and on-job-training for moh and local partners’ staff on the
HINI package (Concern and UNICEF)

6.
Continued
service provision at the health facility including preventive, promotive and
curative services (moh)

7.
Promoting
behavioral change in hygiene practices, infant and young child feeding, and
micronutrient supplementation and deworming through the Community Conversations
(CC) approach (Concern/CIFA)

GAPS AND CHALLENGES

1.
Staffing
gaps- most rural facilities have 1 health worker and 1 Community Health Worker
(CHW).

2.
Shortage
of water (out of 26 health facilities, only 6 have water) and water treatment
chemicals at health facilities, at household level and at the water source.

3.
Immigration
from other neighboring districts/ Ethiopia affects the target
population of the intended interventions.

4.
Community
units health service delivery at the community are not yet operational

5.
Limited
resources-logistical challenges e.g. Logistical, human resources, to carry out
disease surveillance

6.
Nomadic
lifestyle of the community-which complicates service delivery and at times
affects follow-up and defaulter tracing for health and nutrition services

RECOMMENDATIONS

·
There is need for additional
chws at the static rural health facilities

·
There is need for additional
clinical staff in the rural health facilities to boost service delivery.

·
Advocacy
and scaled up public health campaigns on domestic water
treatment such as boiling of drinking water and use of purification chemical to
minimise risks of water-borne diseases, should be carried out.

·
Provision
of water purification chemicals for water treatment at Household and health
facility level

·
Increase  nutrition and health resources to
support the on-going interventions

·
Support
capacity building of newly employed trained health workers and community health
workers to improve the quality of service provision.

·
Continued
water trucking to health facilities affected by water stress

·
Strengthen integrated outreach component- primarily
focusing on regular medical outreach camps/mobile clinic to improve access by
the nomadic and remote populations

FARM AFRICA

FARM Africa is boosting enterprise development, value addition
and diversification through empowering livestock enterprise groups and building
the capacity of local institutions in management of their natural resources.  The project also does water activities
majorly enhancing water harvesting.

The project
targets both Moyale and Sololo districts covering 8 locations (Kinisa, Nana,
Godoma, Dabel, DF, Amballo, Anona and Uran – Lataka)

What is the problem?

·
The current drought situation has threatened the
capital base of the groups the project supports

·
Some key members of groups/local institutions
that the project works with have migrated

·
Deteriorated terms of trade due to
livestock  poor body conditions

·
Challenges in holding workshops/trainings

·
Change of priorities, need for emergency
intervention to save lives rather than long term development

What is FARM Africa
doing? FARM Africa
is not an emergency agency but the long term projects are aimed at reducing
vulnerability.

·
Water project enhancing harvesting; borehole
drilling and equipping in three sites, Nana, Kinisa and Waye Godha

·
Water trucking to the very hardly hit areas to
cushion the target population as they implement the long term projects.

What is the gap?

·
Limited development investments

·
Gradual erosion of community resilience and
traditional coping strategies

·
Unfavourable weather conditions

·
Deteriorating natural resource and poor
use/management

Recommendations

·
There is urgent need for emergency intervention
i.e.  Provision of human food,
animal feed, provision of water, livestock destocking/off take

·
In the long term there is need to invest in
water harvesting (mega Dams). The water collected can then be used for domestic
purposes, establishing pasture, watering livestock, irrigation etc.

World vision

CURRENT DROUGHT SITUATION

The current
drought is severe and has led to the declaration of a national drought disaster
in Kenya;
millions of livestock are at risk of death while food production has been
adversely affected. In Moyale district the rainfall accumulation in 2011 is the
lowest ever recorded. Years of consecutive drought have lead to losses of over
60% in livestock herds for Moyale’s predominately pastoralist
communities. Also, the effects of drought on livestock body condition and milk
production as well as in terms of trade have had a negative impact on the
nutritional status of children. In Moyale, the recent
Inter-Agency Nutrition Report puts Global Acute Malnutrition rates at 13.7% and
Severe Acute Malnutrition at 1.5%. Even more, the percentage of children at
risk (MUAC < 135mm) stands at 20.9% and without any intervention targeting
vulnerable households, these children risk deteriorating into the malnourished
categories.

Harvests in Moyale are not expected
at all as it was a complete failure. In addition to the failure of the local
harvest, availability of and access to food in Moyale has been affected by the
rising cost of fuel as well as by increased food export restrictions by the
Ethiopian government. Food merchants anticipating high food prices at the
delivery point are discouraged from bearing transport and security costs
without a guarantee that their stocks will be bought. Transport, fuel, and
security costs are loaded on the consumer whose purchasing power is not
increasing commensurate with the food prices. Current maize prices in Moyale
are 30% above the 5-year May average.

DROUGHT
RESPONSE INTERVENTIONS

·
Project for Emergency
Assistance in Kenya
(PEAK)

WV’s current USDA-funded
Local Procurement Pilot Program for Emergency Assistance to Kenya (PEAK)
targets 1) families of malnourished children enrolled in Concern Worldwide (CW)
Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) with a protection ration, to ensure
adequate recovery of the children, as well as 2) food insecure households
physically unable to participate in WFP’s Food for Assets (FFA) program.

Given below shows the breakdown of targeted population and
commodities distributed

Divisions

Total beneficiaries

Total Commodities distributed (Metric Tonne)

Maize

Beans

CSB

Oil

Salt

Golbo

5403

181.4

32.4

39.1

12.9

1.99

Obbu

3867

130

23

27.9

9.2

1.16

Uran

2708

91

16

19.6

6.48

0.81

Central

6955

233.2

41.6

50

16.6

2.08

18933

635.6

113

136.6

45.18

6.04

NB: It is anticipated with increased enrolment of new malnutrition
cases additional 200HHs which is equivalent to 1200 individuals will added as
from July Distribution.

The PEAK grant project is mandated to cease activities as by
September 2011 but FEWSNET predicts that the emergency status will hold until
at least March 2012, leaving thousands of HH vulnerable to continued acute food
insecurity as such World vision is exploring the possibility of having another
project to provide continued support to contain the situation.

·
Protracted Relief and
Recovery Operation (PRRO)

FFA is for
creations of asset for the community that is promotion of sustainable food
production and income generating activities. The project implemented FFA so
that strictly pastoralist community will be encouraged to practice Agro
pastoralism; to diversify their household income hence food security for the
entire community.

To enlighten
communities on new farming methods and techniques and more also inculcate
working culture to bring transformation. The project is mainly focused with
rain water harvesting management as it equally strives to feed the vulnerable.

·
FOOD COMMODITIES.

The project targets 16600 beneficiaries which
constitute 2767 households in both Moyale and Sololo district. Food commodities handled from the month of October 2010 to
June 2011 is 1672.219 Metric Tonnes’.

Tonnages per commodities distributed is as below; -

Commodity

Total Tonnage Distributed

Cereals

1243.975

Pulses

214.5

Vegetable Oil

71.519

CSB

142.225

Salt

-

Total

1672.219

The targeted
population has been increased from 16600 to 38030 due to prevailing drought
situation as such more households are going to benefit.

·
Moyale Food Security Project

Ø
Fuel
subsidy: This was the first activity under emergency response. Several boreholes
in Sololo district and in Golbo Division were given 200 liters each of diesel
to assist in running the gen sets in February and early March.

Ø
Carcass
disposal: The program through Community Disaster Mitigation Committees (CDMCs)
was able to facilitate disposal of carcasses through burning and burying before
the short showers of rains that occurred in April. This was done in Dabel and
Nana locations.

Ø
Mass
vaccination and deworming of small stocks: The project through a request from
one of the CDMCs vaccinated and dewormed 6425 small stocks and camels in Dabel
and Bori locations. The program facilitated DVOs office with drugs and vaccines
and field allowances to undertake the activity in the month of May.

Ø
To ensure
an uninterrupted flow of water in Dabel, the program procured a 18.5KVA gen set
and installed in Dabel borehole. Efforts are on going to ensure the gen set is
working efficiently. This was done in the month of June.

Ø
Water tracking:
Water tracking activities were carried out in the month of June. Through the
DWO, the program has been able to deliver 550,000 liters of water in both Sololo
and Moyale district.

Ø
Training of
new peace committee members and opinion leaders in Godoma Locations. Training
for other locations is in progress. This is expected to impact skills to the
new members to foster peaceful coexistence at this stressful period.

Ø
Sensitization
of livestock off take has been done. Community leaders have been tasked to
educate communities to offload excess livestock under the various livestock off
take programs conducted by various stakeholders.

Activities
yet to be implemented

Ø
The program
was able to request donor's approval to spend budget (13,592USD) allocated for
some activities for rehabilitation of boreholes in response to drought. So far,
Godoma Didiko new borehole that does not have equipments is targeted to benefit
from these funds. Due to its low output, a solar submersible pump and a masonry
tank are the two activities set under these funds.

Ø
The program
also plans to procure improved chicken breeds for upgrading the local grades for
household food security.

Ø
The program
procured 1.1tonnes of grass seeds for pasture establishment and grass seeds
production. Grass seeds will be given on a need be basis before the short
rains.

Ø
The program
has initiated rehabilitation and expansion of Anona water pan in Sololo
district. This is expected to assist in increased runoff collection. Plans to
replace Dabel borehole is underway.

Ø
Capacity
building of community structures has been going on to assist communities are
well informed of the current weather patterns and prepare.

RECOMMENDATIONS

v
Disease
surveillance and vaccinations; livestock treatments; hay and feeds supplements;
livestock off-take; to save further loss and monitor the trend of disease
occurrences.

v
Scale-up
integrated management of acute malnutrition through provision of therapeutic
feeds; accelerated integrated mobile outreach services in hard to reach areas
to increase access to health and nutrition services; promotion and protection
of infant and young child feeding practices including health education;

v
Micronutrient
supplementation for children and mothers at community and facility level and
de-worming; and accelerated disease, water safety and nutrition surveillance.

v
Rehabilitation
of boreholes, dams and pans, repair of water supplies; water trucking; purchase
and distribution of plastic tanks; water quality surveillance and treatment
chemical; drilling of emergency boreholes and fuel subsidy.

SUMMARY
OF ONGOING OR INTENDED INTERVENTION MEASURES BY DIFFERENT ACTORS INCLUDING
GORVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

ORGANIZATION

INTERVENTION

Water

Livestock

Food and Nutrition

Ministry of water & Irrigation

-
Water trucking to communities

-
Borehole fuel subsidies

-
Maintenance and repair of
boreholes

-
Purchase Stand by gen set and
pumps sets

Arid lands Resource Management

-
Borehole fuel subsidy

-
Peace building for resource
sharing

-
Provision of water borehole
pumps and other spare parts

Kenya
Red Cross

-
Support water trucking

-
Destocking

CIFA

-
Provide water vouchers

-
Water trucking

-
Hygiene awareness promotion

-
Improve water quality

-
Provision of PVC tanks

-
Support mutual resource
sharing initiatives

-
De-worming and vaccination

-
Destocking

-
Support to local Community
health workers

-
Improve rangeland condition

-
Restocking for camel

-
Livestock water vouchers

-
Food voucher targeting 1000HH

-
Destocking for slaughter
targeting 500HH

World Vision

- Fuel subsidy for boreholes

-
De-worming and vaccination

-
Destocking

-
Provision of feeds
supplements

-
Target 6339 HH under WFP-
Food For Asset.

-
Target 3346 HH under PEAK
programme

Ministry of Veterinary services

-
Mass de-worming

-
Mass vaccination of livestock

-
Early disease surveillance

Ministry of livestock

-
Destocking

-
Provision of feed supplements

Government of Kenya (provincial administration)

-
Relief food ( 1800 bags of
cereals)

-
Target 25 sub locations(
17412 HH at 10kg per HH)

Ministry of Agriculture

-
Alternative farming methods

-
Drought resistant crops

-
Farm inputs, Seed &
technical advice provision

Concern World-Wide

-
Nutritional survey for the
district

-
Provide supplementary &
Therapeutic feeding targeting 23 health centers.

Ministry of Health & Unicef

-
Supplementary and Therapeutic
feeding

-
Provide the necessary framework for all
stake holders to work

-
Management of the cases
identified of malnutrition

Farm Africa

-
Water harvesting methods

-
Water trucking to hard hit
areas

-
More Borehole drilling

-

Conclusion

With the current drought
situation, there is need to scale up all the interventions by different
stakeholders to avert the looming crisis of hunger, malnutrition, loss of
livestock and scarcity of water among others. This will adversely affect other
sectors including education and all other developmental investments in the
region.