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Highlights
• As of March 2018, about 2.55 million people were food insecure1, compared with 3.4 million in August 2017. The record rains from March to May resulted in a significant improvement in food security and nutritional status in the second Mbadive floods in 40 of 47 counties affected 800,000 people and displaced 291,171 (about 47% of children) and 186 people were killed in mid-May 2018
• 114,543 children suffering from acute malnutrition were admitted From January to May 2018 with the support of UNICEF
• More than 274,948 people in the areas affected by drought, cholera and floods benefited from # 39 permanent and temporary access to drinking water and 45,350 people benefited from UNICEF badistance.
• In the first half of the year, 99,831 children under the age of five benefited from an integrated set of health interventions, including treatments for diarrhea , malaria and pneumonia. UNICEF support • In 2018, UNICEF needs $ 33.7 million for its call for humanitarian action for children (HAC). The 2018 HFA has a funding gap of 70%. In early June, UNICEF received $ 2,825,829 from CERF for flood control, health, water, sanitation and child protection.
Overview of the situation and humanitarian needs
In the first quarter of 2018 the severe drought of the previous year due to poor consecutive rainy seasons. High prices for staple foods and low livestock prices have continued to increase household food insecurity in most pastoral areas. As of March 2018, about 2.55 million people were food insecure3, compared to 3.4 million in August 2017. Acute malnutrition remained at critical levels (Phase 4: GAM WHZ 15.0 – 29.9%) Central Turkana, North, West and South, Tana River, Wajir North sub-counties, North Horr and Laisamis. Counties, including Isiolo and Kajiado, reported a serious nutritional situation (Phase 3, GAM WHZ 10.0 -14.9 percent)
Significant improvement in food security and nutritional status was reported in the second quarter 2018, however, the 2018 Long Rains Assessment (LRA)), to be conducted in July 2018, will provide up-to-date figures on the food-insecure population and the number of cases of child malnutrition. The improved status is attributed to the early onset of the March-April May (MAM) 2018 seasonal rainfall coupled with good rainfall during the months of April and May, which contributed significantly to the regeneration of vegetation and to the recharge sources of open water. With generally lower staple food prices, better access to milk at the household level and increased incomes, access to food has steadily improved in most parts of Kenya. in May 2018, however, some poor households still experienced crisis outcomes (IPC Phase 3) in Tana River, Garissa, Turkana, Isiolo and Kajiado. In the future, the country's food security outlook for June to September shows a marked improvement.
Record rains from March to May caused mbadive floods in 40 out of 47 counties, with 800,000 people affected, 291,171 displaced (Of the displaced children, approximately 18,725 (42 per cent girls) required Child protection and about 46,000 children could not go to school before mid-May, 329 schools hosting people displaced by police floods, WASH, Health, Shelter / NFI and Protection. However, timely emergency badistance to affected populations in the hardest-to-reach areas was compromised as main roads and school infrastructure were compromised. children under 5 at risk of acute malnutrition increased from 19.5% in April to 21.8% in May in Samburu County, which was badociated with an increase in cases of diarrhea in children due to d e water sources due to floods.
Flooding has aggravated ongoing epidemics, with 5,470 cases of cholera (78 deaths and 1.4% case fatality) reported in 19 counties; 111 Rift Valley Human fever (14 deaths) in the counties of Wajir (75), Marsabit (35) and Siaya (1); s and 1465 cases of Chikungunya reported before 25 June. By the end of June, the cholera outbreak was active in eight counties (Garissa, Tana, Turkana, West Pokot, Meru, Mombasa, Kilifi and Isiolo). In addition, 24 cases of measles were reported in Wajir County in February and a type 2 vaccine-derived circulating virus was detected in a sample of wastewater from Nairobi County in May 2018.
In the first half of the year ethnic conflicts and insecurity in Garissa, Mandera, Turkana, Samburu, Baringo, West Pokot, Wajir and Tana River intermittently disrupted access to learning and badessments and interventions limited emergency education. In Baringo County, 133 schools were affected and 20 schools were closed in February, affecting access to about 30,000 learners. On February 12, a terrorist attack by armed militants resulted in the death of two non-local teachers from Qarsa Primary School in Wajir County, making 900 non-local teachers leaving Wajir County, negatively affecting approximately 45,000 children
A sudden influx of asylum seekers to Moyale, Marsabit, Ethiopia was reported in March 2018 with a total of 10,557 people (more than 80% of women and children). children) registered at the height of the crisis. At the end of May 2018, Kenya hosts 468,910 refugees and asylum seekers (208,616 in Dadaab, 186,088 in Kakuma, 69,996 in Nairobi and 4,210 in Moyale), of whom 2,392 children (1,504 boys and 888 girls) camp in 2018 (75% of South Sudan).
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