From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National - Brookings

Kenya National Response to Internal Displacement: Achievements, Challenges and Lessons from Kenya
35%
31%
Figure 2-4. What are the main reasons IDPs remain in camps?
14%
33%
30%
20%
Fear of attacks They lack land
Source: South Consulting survey data, 2009-2011
Figure 2-5. Level of public satisfaction with government’s performance in resettling IDPs
43%
55%
Dec-08
Source: South Consulting survey data, 2008-2010
20% 33%
11%
Awaiting funds
mechanisms, which has enabled infiltration of impostors
into camps. When the government began to purchase
land for IDPs at the beginning of 2010, the level of
satisfaction spiked from 37 percent in August 2009 to 51
percent in February 2010.
Over a quarter of respondents in successive surveys (see
figure 2-6) say that resettling IDPs elsewhere is one important
step that the government can take to address the
problem. A significant number also emphasize the need
to both resettle IDPs in their communities of origin and
the Rift Valley due to the absence of authentic registers or
accountability systems: “Corruption in Operation Rudi
Nyumbani,” The Standard, 1 September 2008.
2%
■ Aug-09 ■ Feb-10 ■ Feb-11
6%
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8%
10%
IDPs are not
genuine
6%
■ Satisfied ■ Dissatisfied ■ Don’t know
37%
58%
Aug-09
5%
51%
46%
Feb-10
2%
3%
1%
Do not know
40%
The government is
reluctant to help
57%
give them land, underscoring the centrality of land as a
cause of and solution to displacement in Kenya.
While these suggestions to achieve durable solutions are
important strategies that should be taken into account
by the government, they must be anchored in broader
democratic governance reforms for better impact.
11. Allocate Adequate Resources
to the Problem
The government allocates budgetary resources to finance
measures to address the problem of internal displacement.
The draft National Policy for the Prevention
of Internal Displacement and the Protection and
1%
Nov-10
3%
1%
41%