From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National - Brookings

CHAPTER 2 Case Studies: Georgia, Kenya, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka
Figure 2-6. What can the government do to address the problem of IDPs in Kenya?
Aug-09 Feb-10 Nov-10
Resettle them elsewhere 33% 34% 28%
Resettle them in areas where they were displaced from 25% 18% 24%
Give them financial assistance 12% 13% 28%
Promote peace and reconciliation 12% 12% 10%
Take them back to their ancestral districts 7% 12% 6%
Increase security 6% 9% 6%
Give them land 35%
Settle them where they are (promote local integration) 11%
Don’t know 3% 1%
Other 2% 1% 1%
Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya recognizes
the need for predictable funding and provides
for the establishment of an IDP fund “to comprehensively
cover the implementation of the policy in all its
aspects and any kind of displacement situation irrespective
of its cause.” 155 To address corruption and mismanagement
of the fund, the draft policy further provides
that the fund
shall be overseen by an independent board
composed of representatives of relevant stakeholders
and be open to receive bilateral and
multilateral donations, but not exclude the possibility
for donors to continue to directly fund
humanitarian activities as well as recovery and
development projects.
As noted above, a special fund, the National
Humanitarian Fund for Mitigation and Resettlement,
was established in March 2008 to support the return
of post-election violence IDPs. 156 The budget for
the fund is provided through budgetary appropriations
by Parliament, but it is also open to public
155 Draft IDP Policy, Chapter X, Paragraph 3
156 Minister of MoSSP, Speech at Launch of Public Fund
Raising toward the Resettlement of IDPs, 12 May 2008
(www.sprogrammes.go.ke/index.php?option=com_conte
nt&task=view&id=143&Itemid=117).
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contributions by citizens, other countries, and international
institutions. 157 The government provided an initial
1 billion Kenyan shillings (Ksh.) (estimated $12.5 million)
to establish the fund. 158 Records from the Ministry
of Finance show the government has spent Ksh. 7.977
billion ($99,712,500) to support IDPs. 159 The funds allocated
since 2007 are shown below:
Figure 2-7. Government expenditure on IDPs,
2007-2011
Financial
Year
Amount
(Ksh.)
2007/
2008
1.25
billion
2008/
2009
1.035
billion
2009/
2010
3.005
billion
Source: Government of Kenya, Ministry of Finance, January 2011.
2010/
2011
2.687
billion
As shown in figure 2-8, the funds were disbursed to the
157 MoSSP, National Humanitarian Fund (www.sprogrammes.
go.ke/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2
71&Itemid=167); “Report of the Commission of Inquiry
into Post-Election Violence,” 15 October 2008 (www.
dialoguekenya.org/docs/PEVReport1.pdf).
158 MoSSP, National Humanitarian Fund (www.sprogrammes.
go.ke/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2
71&Itemid=167).
159 $1=KSH 80. “Statement on Government Support for
IDPs,” press statement from the Office of the Deputy
Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance, The Star, 7
January 2011.