Enhanced
Security - Early Recovery after post election crisis
As a follow up to the various national,
regional and international mechanisms
that were invoked to support dialogue
and achievement of amicable solutions
between opposing parties. The Enhanced
Security unit,Kenya and Bureau of Crisis
Prevention and Recovery BCPR -New York
is working to address the humanitarian
situation created by post election violence.Both
H.E. President Mwai Kibaki as leader of
Government/Party of National Unity (PNU)
and Hon. Raila Odinga as leader of Orange
Democratic Movement (ODM), the opposing
parties, agreed that the mediation process
initiated by President Kufuor would be
continued by a Panel of Eminent African
Personalities. The Panel begun working
on National Dialogue and Reconciliation
from the 24th January 2008 .
Support to the implementation of activities
under the initiation plan has been collaborative
with various development partners in Kenya
including the Government. Some funding
has already been received while at the
same time more agreements are being firmed
up with various donors based on their
pledges to support the process.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Following several participatory workshops, it
has been agreed upon that a recovery needs assessment
set to be undertaken between 25th March and 5th
April 2008.
The details are as follows:
1. The mission will be referred to as Early Recovery
Needs Assessment, abbreviated ERNA.
2. The main objectives of the ERNA will be:
i) To provide a qualitative and quantitative
description of the impact of the crisis on the
districts covered by the assessment and the early
recovery needs that should be addressed in the
next 6-12 months.
ii) Assess capacities of local institutions
to undertake early recovery planning and programming.
iii) Recommend measures to be taken by development
actors to support local governments and communities
overcome the difficulties of recovering from the
crisis.
iv) Provide a common understanding of the situation
and recovery needs and a coordinated mechanism
for implementation of recovery programs.
3. Apart from visiting the most affected areas/sites,
the mission will hold meetings with the Government
agencies, local authorities, private sector and
civil society organisations in the respective
areas under the aegis of the Provincial Administration.
Communication to this effect is being relayed
to the respective Provincial Commissioners (PCs)
and District Commissioners (DCs).
4. Each Lead Agency representative is expected
to utilise these forums and other opportunities
during the mission to employ their sector-specific
toolkits to access as much information/data as
possible. For those agencies that have already
gathered some information on the conflict, this
will be an opportunity for them to augment/update
what they have. All in all, the methodology of
assessment remains the responsibility of the individual
Lead Agencies.
5. The Lead Agency representatives are required
to ensure adequate quality control of the assessment
particularly on the areas like source of information/data,
methodology used, representative population etc.
6. All sectors should ensure that important needs
assessment elements are incorporated, e.g.
i) General governance issues, e.g. geosocial
politics
ii) Demographics – population, IDP numbers
etc
iii) Local and national economic context
iv) Social-cultural context e.g. social stratification,
ethnic composition
v) Environmental context
Contact Bernard (Bernard.leflaive@undp.org) and
Ekuam (Ekuam@jay.net) for further details.
