Launch of the Joint UNCHR-Danida Evaluation of the Integrated Socio Economic Development Programme (KISEDP) in Kalobeyei, Kenya

Kenya is one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest host countries for refugees, hosting more than 470,000 refugees, primarily from Somalia and South Sudan. The Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement host over 185,000 refugees and asylum-seekers.

In order to provide an integrated solution to refugee’s protection and assistance, which can also benefit the host communities in Kenya, UNHCR developed an Integrated Solutions Model. The KISEDP included the establishment of the Kalobeyei settlement close to Kakuma. The KISEDP constitutes a new model for providing protection, assistance and solutions to refugees while also benefitting host communities, by combining humanitarian and development actors in an effort to provide assistance to refugees while at the same time promote self-reliance and development for both refugees and host population.

The main purpose of the evaluation is to contribute to learning about the integrated settlement model in and around Kalobeyei, by documenting lessons learned from a concrete effort to link humanitarian and long-term development assistance. The overall focus of the evaluation is the KISEDP model, taking as point of departure an ambition to collate lessons learned on how to support relevant, effective and sustainable refugee responses, as well as development outcomes for refugees and host communities alike.

The evaluation, jointly managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and by the UNHCR, is designed as a forward-looking evaluation that will allow a wide range of actors and stakeholder to understand the role humanitarian and development stakeholders, and in particular UNHCR, can play in improving the situation for refugees and host communities in and around Kalobeyei, Turkana.

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