For the last 13 years, people in Louth have been supporting a community in rural North West Kenya called Kongelai, through ActionAid’s Child Sponsorship p.
The challenge of reconnecting unaccompanied child refugees with their loved ones is a growing problem with the refugee crisis. In Kakuma refugee camp filmmaker Lieven Corthouts sought out a solution after living there and talking with refugees struggling to find their families. ThoughtWorks collaborated with Lieven to design and user test a web application with refugees to address the problem, and set out the steps to trial a full solution in Kakuma.
Kakuma is a UNHCR administered refugee camp in North West Kenya, near the border with South Sudan. The camp’s population exceeded 193,000 people as of June 2016, of which 53% were South Sudanese. Almost 12,700 South Sudanese children have been registered by UNHCR as unaccompanied or separated (UNHCR, 2016).
Understanding the Socioeconomic Conditions of Refugees in Kenya | Volume B: Kakuma Camp - Results from the 2019 Kalobeyei Socioeconomic Survey
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Socioeconomic data of refugees and host communities are crucial to support the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), inform effective development policy, and respond timely to shocks. Even though significant progress to produce displacement statistics has been made, data gaps persist. Limitations include variation across countries in terms of statistical capacities and lack of comparable socioeconomic data of refugees and hosts, which hinders efforts to design targeted policy interventions.2 Micro-data collection through household surveys that are comparable to national measures can support the objectives of the GCR by filling socioeconomic data gaps to inform evidence-based responses. Household survey data, in combination with frequently collected data as carried out for the COVID-19 Rapid Response Phone Survey (RRPS) a