Understanding the Socioeconomic Conditions of Refugees in Kenya | Volume A: Kalobeyei Settlement - Results from the 2018 Kalobeyei Socioeconomic Survey
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The Global Compact on Refugees represents a new approach to managing forced displacement situations, one in which evidence and data are central to its success and key to link humanitarian and development actions.
Kenya is exemplary of the challenges and opportunities of this new approach. Since 1992, it has been a generous host of refugees and asylum seekers, a population which today exceeds 490,000 people, engendering both positive and negative impacts on local Kenyans. The Kalobeyei Settlement, located in Turkana County along the northwestern border of Kenya, was established in 2015 as an alternative to a camp setting, based on principles of refugee self-reliance, integrated delivery of services to refugees and host community members, and greater support for livelihood opportunities through evidence-based interventions.
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New evidence about the socioeconomic impacts of statelessness emerges from a study of the Shona community in Kenya
Jan 8, 2021
Co-authors: Melanie Khanna (UNHCR Chief of the Statelessness Section), Betsy Lippman (UNHCR Senior Advisor for Innovations and Partnerships), Florence Nimoh (UNHCR Associate Economist), and Sebastian Steinmueller (UNHCR Statistics and Data Analysis Officer).
Statelessness, the condition of people who have no citizenship, is a global phenomenon that negatively affects millions of people worldwide. The problem has not gotten the attention it deserves in part because data on statelessness is so weak. Most governments do not collect data on stateless persons, and as a result, there is no reliable global estimate of the number of such persons, although the figure of 10 million is frequently cited.