Evaluation: Drought Recovery for Vulnerable ASAL Populations in Tana River and Marsabit County Kenya

The BMZ/GIZ-funded project "Drought Recovery for Vulnerable ASAL Populations in Tana River (KEN-1102) and in Marsabit (KEN-1103" implemented by Welthungerhilfe in the Kenyan Counties of Tana River and Marsabit focused on mitigating drought impacts and increasing resilience in responding to the drought emergency that affected the Horn of Africa in 2011. It is designed to consolidate the successes of the drought emergency response undertaken by Welthungerhilfe between September 2011 and April 2012. It also aims to obtain long-term commitments to addressing those structural problems that impact vulnerable populations of poor pastoral, agro-pastoral and marginal farmers in drought affected areas in the Tana River (KEN-1102) and Marsabit (KEN-1103) districts in Kenya. While those emergency interventions enabled the target groups in the affected areas to survive, this project is designed to address the inherent structural problems by building up the resilience of the affected populations to counter drought. The project design and the activities are partially guided by baseline surveys conducted in Phase One GIZ/BMZ 2011/121 implementation; the community needs assessments and proposals submitted by the communities to Welthungerhilfe.