Frontline Kenya country report 2015

This report presents the results of a participatory action research conducted in six communities of Kenya namely Mandera, Wajir, Samburu, Nairobi, Kwale and Kisumu. The survey aims at measuring community resilience, identifying actions and advocacy activities that can improve disaster management at local, regional and national levels. The survey also supports local action and learning in the domains of disaster risk reduction.

Drought, diseases and insecurity were identified as the top threats and they were also the top threats that were tackled in the responses. Perception of the respondents on the scale and impact of the disaster events were also collected. Assessing the disaster events in the past year and also recall of past disaster events going back a decade, did show that 89% of respondents identified the small-scale disasters as the most important and with the biggest impact on the lives of those affected. 66% of the respondents did suffer substantial increase in losses and damages as a result of these events.