Kenya – Mobility Tracking and Multi-sectoral Location Assessment in Wajr Round #2 (May 2023)

Mobility Tracking and Multi Sectoral Location Assessment Data was collected in Wajir County between 1 and 19 November 2023. Key findings included:

• Drought was the main reported driver of displacement: 21% of sub locations reported that they had to travel more than 45 minutes by foot to access drinking water

 

• Key informants in 30 sub-locations reported they had no functional water sources

 

• Of the 20,500 assessed households in the county, 1,871 households were headed by children. Of these, 1,124 children (60%) were without relatives or community support and 309 (17%) children were without any support

 

• 90% of arrivals arrived at sub-locations which already struggled with the severe effects of drought, resource-based conflict, and ethnic clashes indicating that ‘arrivals’ had insufficient resources to travel to more distant, resource-rich environments and indicating a possible cycle of displacement as needs are not met in locations of displacement

 

• 89%of key informants reported the presence of pastoralist households. Yet two thirds of pastoralist households dropped pastoralism between

 

• six months to one year before data collection- at the peak of the drought period This indicates significant economic and cultural shifts for pastoralists 67%