UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
OCHA, a department of the UN Secretariat, operates through a network of field offices which support UN Humanitarian Coordinators and country teams. It also maintains regional support offices and Regional Disaster Response Advisors in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
The CGIAR generates cutting-edge science to foster sustainable agricultural growth that benefits the poor through stronger food security, better human nutrition and health, higher incomes and improved management of natural resources.
DEPHA Data Exchange Platform For The Horn of Africa
DEPHA provides geographic information data and services for the Horn of Africa region countries including Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Somalia. DEPHA was launched in 2002 to meet the strategic and emergency planning needs of the humanitarian and development community in this region.
Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)
a USAID-funded activity that collaborates with international, regional and national partners to provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging and evolving food security issues.
Global Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
These Guiding Principles address the specific needs of internally displaced persons worldwide. They identify rights and guarantees relevant to the protection of persons from forced displacement and to their protection and assistance during displacement as well as during return or resettlement and reintegration.
GRID-Nairobi
DEWA/GRID-Nairobi is one of UNEP's major centers for data and information management, with a unique, "value-adding" mandate in the handling of national, sub-regional and regional environmental statistics and data, which in turn supports the environment assessment and early warning activities of UNEP and its partners
Harmonisation Alignment & Coordination / Kenya Joint Assistance Strategy (KJAS)
The HAC aim is to harmonize, align, and coordinate donor activities with the aim of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of aid and reduce transactions costs to government, in line with the objectives of the Rome Declaration of February 2003. The Harmonization, Alignment, and Coordination donor group (HAC) is established as a subgroup of the Donor Coordination Group (DCG), reporting to the World Bank as chair, with an initial membership of seven bilateral and multilateral agencies.
The Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) Nairobi
The Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) on Disaster Preparedness provides a forum for regional organisations - international NGOs, the Red Cross and UN Agencies - to enhance information exchange and regional coordination in order to respond to emergencies in a timely and cost efficient manner.
International Center for Research in Agroforestry / ICRAF
The International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF, has an ultimate purpose guiding its research. It is to work towards mitigating tropical deforestation, land depletion and rural poverty through improved agroforestry systems. Its goal is to initiate and assist in the generation and dissemination of appropriate agroforestry technologies for resource-poor farmers and other land users.
IRIN News
IRIN News principal role is to provide news and analysis about sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia for the humanitarian community.
Kenya Inter-cluster Website
Following the recommendations of the Humanitarian Response Review, the cluster approach was proposed as a way of addressing gaps and strengthening the effectiveness of humanitarian response through building partnerships. The Kenya IASC Country Team met on the 5th January 2008 to discuss , amongst other topics,the adoption of the cluster approach.
Kenya Red Cross Society
The vision of Kenya Red Cross Society is to be the leading humanitarian organisation in Kenya, self-sustaining, delivering excellent quality service of preventing and alleviating human suffering to the most vulnerable in the community.
Kenya Logistics Cluster
WFP is the logistics cluster lead at global level. Cluster leadership at field level is generally the same as at global level. However, in exceptional circumstances where WFP is unable to fulfil this role at field level, another field level cluster lead agency/organisation can be allocated the responsibility.
Peacenet Kenya
Peacenet Kenya
ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time.
United Nations
The main website and portal for the United Nations system
WFP Food Security Assessment Learning Repository
Created by the UN World Food Programme, the Repository provides access to information and resources dedicated to learning through skills and capacity development in the field of Food Security Assessment.