OUR WORK Save the Children has had a presence in Kenya for over 40 years. We work closely with partners in government, civil society, development and corporate sectors. 98% of our staff is Kenyan. As a dual mandate organisation, we work to address the challenges facing women and children in both development and humanitarian settings, in the following thematic areas: health, nutrition, HIV and AIDS; food security and livelihoods; child protection; education; child rights; water and sanitation.
OUR STRATEGIC INTENT • Reach 1 million people • Focus on high-impact, quality INTEGRATED PROGRAMMING • Incorporate and build on strategies for Risk Reduction and Adaptation • Improve Community Engagement and Accountability • Enhance our understanding and response to Gender • Increase Child Participation in meaningful ways • Ensure a Child Rights Programminglens
COUNTRY STATISTICS Population 40 million
Budget in 2011/12 USD 30 million
Children Reached 2011 >900,000
Staff at transition 235 Save the Children in Kenya runs its operations in the following field offices Mandera (Health, FSL, Education, CP, Nutrition, WASH) Wajir (Health & Nutrition, FSL, Education, WASH, CP) Dadaab (ECD,CP, FLS, Education) Meru (HIV/AIDS, CP, Livelihoods) Nairobi (Country Office)
OUR PORTFOLIO IN 2013 CHILD PROTECTION Our child protection programme is focused on strengthening the formal and community-based child rotection systems. I. Children without Appropriate Care – Supporting partners in Rift Valley and Nairobi (MihiraJapan) II. Protection against Harmful Child Labour – Empowering working boys/girls – Thika, Naivasha, Meru (CLW) III. National Child Protection Systems (SC Finland, CLW) IV. Children Sexually Abused and Exploited (SC Finland) V. Child Protection in Emergencies - Ensuring child protection systems and services in Dadaab and host communities (BPRM, UNHCR, Pathy, UNICEF) CHILD RIGHTS GOVERNANCE Save the Children works with civil society organisations to support the government in ensuring the promotion of child rights and influencing the government to prioritize child rights in the national agenda.
I. CRC Monitoring – Timely state and complementary reports KAACR (SC Finland) II. Strengthening National Systems – Increased budget allocations to child rights; Laws and policies for children harmonized – KAACR; Improved capacity of government and civil society for CR (SC Finland) III. Building Awareness and Capacity – Strengthening coalitions for children’s rights and affecting policy change/adherence (SC Finland) EDUCATION Children in Kenya continue to face direct and indirect cost related barriers to accessing education, especially in poor, hard-to-reach areas of the North Eastern Province (NEP). This is despite the introduction of Free Primary Education in Kenya in 2003. To better understand how best to tackle this fundamental demand side barrier, Save the Children with funding from DFID will implement a pilot programme that will distribute 12 months of regular cash transfers to 3000 poor households with children of school-going age in Garissa County. Save the Children focuses particularly on nonformal education, inclusiveness, and early childhood care and development. (ECD)
I. Basic Education (inclusive) – Ensuring access and that children complete school; Quality learning environments; Primarily Dadaab and host communities, also through SC Finland partners across the country ( EU, CIDA/UNICEF, DFID) II. Early Childhood Development – Establishing and ensuring access to ECD centres - Dadaab (CIDA/UNICEF) III. Secondary Education – SC Canada Mbooni scholarships IV. School Health and Nutrition – Improving health and educational status through hygiene (Wrigley, P&G, SC Japan) HEALTH & HIV AND AIDS Through the health systems strengthening approach, Save the Children is working in partnership with the Ministry of Health and development partners to integrate community level care into the national health system. This includes training, remuneration and supervision of community health workers, community health extension workers and committees, under the national community health strategy. I. Maternal and Newborn Health – Improve quality and delivery of maternal and newborn health (Mandera/Wajir);
EVERYONE campaign and realisation of children’s rights; NCS/Health Signature Programme (EU, GSK, Bulgari, Afren, Unilever, SC UK) II. Child Health – Policies and resources for quality MNCH (Mandera/Wajir) EU, GSK, Bulgari, Afren III. Other Health – Improving community resilience through safe water and hygiene (Habaswein) SC Japan Save the Children is implementing HIV prevention, care and support programs to support people living with HIV, orphans and vulnerable children in four districts (Naivasha, Igembe North & South, Thika and Meru County) as well as in Daadab refugee camps IV. Care and Support for HIV affected children – Education support to children – Meru; Well-being and family support, community support structures – Meru, Naivasha, Thika (SC NZ, CLW, PEPFAR Aphia+) V. Prevention of HIV – Improved capacity of boys and girls to protect themselves from HIV – Meru (SC NZ, PEPFAR Aphia+)
NUTRITION Save the Children is implementing nutrition interventions as part of the Kenya nutrition sector plans in two districts of Wajir and Mandera County. Our direct programming in north-eastern focuses on scaling up high impact nutrition interventions in support to the government’s strategy. I. Maternal and Newborn Nutrition –Increase number of women and children receiving HINI and MIYCN (Mandera/ Wajir) II. Child Nutrition –Improve detection, referral and management of under and malnutrition in children under 5 years (Mandera/Wajir) III. Other Nutrition – Systems strengthening; Access to water and sanitation (ECHO, DFID, UNICEF) ADVOCACY FOR RESEARCH A critical component of our nutrition and livelihoods work, the advocacy for research project will commission, compile and communicate research and findings that provide evidence on opportunities to effectively address hunger and malnutrition in Kenya at national and local level, through transformed thinking, improved policy thinking and appropriate programming.
Our work in WASH is designed to support the health and nutrition components of our interventions, targeting health facilities, schools and communities. The activities and approaches we implement are aimed at building capacity of communities, local organisations and government counterparts. FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS Save the Children is implementing a number of food security and livelihoods programs aimed at increasing the livelihoods resilience of communities. We focus on investing in the prevention and treatment of wasting at scale in the health facilities and supporting the establishment of effective hunger safety nets to reduce the prevalence of acute malnutrition. At the household level, Save the Children is supporting communities to re-build their livelihood assets by strengthened livestock markets to increase the incomes of pastoral households, as well as strengthening the non-livestock markets to increase the income of non-pastoral households. I. Asset Recovery and Protection – Registration of households for possible HSNP participation – Wajir, Mandera; Milk vouchers (DFID, OFDA, SC UK)
II. Hunger Signature Programme for breakthrough in drylands III. Income and Asset Growth – Enhanced livelihoods (milk trade, Breakthrough, alternative livelihoods EEMIH) – Wajir, Mandera, Meru; Financial services for youth (savings) National (DFID, OFDA, SC UK, Mastercard, SC NZ) HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE Humanitarian Response Save the Children in Kenya is committed to building its capacity to respond to a variety of humanitarian crises that affect children. In 2008, we responded to post-election violence with emergency child protection and education programmes in the Rift Valley. In 2010-12, we responded to the drought and refugees crises in North-Eastern with interventions in the areas of health, nutrition, food security, WASH and child protection
Our Office Matundu Close, Off School Lane, Westlands, PO Box 39664 Nairobi 00623 Kenya Tel +254 20 4444006/1028/1032/1031 www.savethechildren.net Country Director: Duncan Harvey duncan.harvey@savethechildren.org For more information, please see our programme brief document and/or contact us at ms.kenya@savethechildren.org