Highlights
13,889 Identified unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
86
Households provided with cash grants since 1st January 20151,288,598
NFIs distributed since January 20151,671
Shelters distributed since January 2016
Population of Concern
Total of people of concern 560,134
Funding
USD 272,100,000 requested
HIGHLIGHTS
Since the break-out of violence in South Sudan on 7 July 2016, UNHCR Sub-Office Kakuma received and registered 409 refugees as of 31 July 2016, bringing the total number of registered new South Sudanese arrivals in July to 524. Kakuma has received 48,868 refugees from South Sudan since the start of the influx in December 2013.
UNHCR and the Government of Kenya are carrying out a verification exercise in Dadaab refugee camps in order to have a clear picture of the refugees living in the camps and gather more information on their condition. It is anticipated that the on-going exercise which started on 4 July 2016 will help to ascertain the number of persons of concern living in each of the camps. As of 31 July 2016, a total number of 58,012 households comprising 270,517 individuals out of the targeted population of 78,998 households comprising 341,571 individuals have been confirmed to be living in the Dadaab camps.
Petition 227 of 2016 challenging the closure of Dadaab and the disbandment of DRA was mentioned in court. The court directed that the matter goes to full hearing in October 2016.
UNHCR is planning the relocation of 15,000 asylum seekers who are in the pipeline of Refugee Status Determination process and 16,000 non-Somalis from Dadaab to Kakuma. UNHCR has been engaging with IOM to undertake the relocation exercise.
UNHCR continued to uphold the Refugee ID cards issued by the Government of Kenya as the primary identification document for refugees in Kenya. There were some transitions to enable the Refugee Affairs Secretariat (RAS) to fully take up all their roles.
UNHCR and the Refugee Affairs Secretariat (RAS) held a meeting to discuss refugee protection and management in Kenya. A further meeting was held to map the way forward regarding the resumption of activities by the RAS.
The Somali Ambassador to Kenya visited Kakuma. He met with Somali refugee leaders and visited Mogadishu Secondary School.
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and an advocate for girls’ education visited Dadaab camps and celebrated her 19th birthday with refugees.
The proposed Refugee Bill 2016 sponsored by a private member underwent the First reading in Parliament on 20th July 2016. Thereafter the Bill was referred to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security for scrutiny.