Refugees in Nairobi have lower educational attainment than nationals. About 71 percent of refugees aged 18 and above have completed primary school and 42 have completed secondary school. In comparison...
Kenya has hosted refugees since its independence in 1963, although refugee policy has shifted from an integration approach towards an encampment model. The flow of asylum seekers into Kenya gained momentum...
The comparative analysis on the socioeconomic conditions of urban and camp-based refugees in Kenya builds upon the findings of the Kalobeyei, Kakuma and Urban Socioeconomic Surveys (SES). It offers an...
Forcibly displaced people (FDP) are increasingly inhabiting urban areas where, together with urban hosts, they face an array of risks and heightened vulnerabilities that need to be addressed through evidence-based...
Understanding the socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugees is important to inform targeted policy responses. The arrival of COVID-19 disrupted lives across all countries and communities...
Understanding the socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is important to inform policy responses. The arrival of COVID-19 disrupted lives across all countries and communities, creating unprecedented...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a strong impact on the livelihoods of Kenyan households, even though employment and income levels are recovering. The second lockdown resulted in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the livelihoods of Kenyan households, even though employment and income levels are slowly recovering. Nevertheless, food security for many households has...
The Kenya COVID-19 pandemic has translated into critical socioeconomic impacts on Kenya’s population, which must be understood to inform timely policy responses. School closures, restrictions on movement...
The COVID-19 pandemic has severe impacts on the Kenyan economy and society as a whole. This report analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on businesses in Kenya based on a nationally representative Business Pulse...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had strong and lasting impacts on livelihoods of Kenyan households, with employment and income levels only slowly recovering. Most households had to implement multiple...
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...
The process of devolution in Kenya requires building the statistical capacity of the county-level statistical offices to ensure timely and high-quality data to monitor progress towards the objectives of...
The Kenyan Continuous Household Survey (KCHS), funded by the World Bank, will make available timely high-quality data. A ten-year gap between the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) 2005/06...
The note is a summary of the decisions taken by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in the design of the Kenya Continuous Household Survey documenting Technical Assistance by the World Bank.
Socioeconomic data of refugees and host communities is crucial to support the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), inform effective development policy and timely respond to shocks. Even...