{"id":2925,"date":"2019-06-06T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T07:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"state-wfp-begin-cash-transfer-programme-for-arid-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/06\/state-wfp-begin-cash-transfer-programme-for-arid-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"State, WFP Begin Cash Transfer Programme For Arid Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By CECIL ODONGO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government\nin partnership with World Food Program (WFP) has pledged to implement cash\ntransfer programme to rescue residents from arid and semi- arid areas affected\nby hunger and drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Devolution\nCabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa on Monday said the partnership with WFP is\npart of the ministry\u2019s strategic plan 2018-2022 that will help save lives of\nresidents from the Northern frontier counties that were adversely affected by\ndrought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PROBLEMS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government\nhas always encountered problems when transporting food stuffs to save lives of\npeople from arid and semi- arid areas of northern Kenya. The relief food from\nthe government always arrives late due to rugged terrain and banditry,\u201d Mr.\nWamalwa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the help\nof WFP, we have devised a formula to determine how residents from the dry\ncounties will be allocated money through cash transfer programme during drought\nso as to help them buy foodstuffs instead of waiting for the government\nassistance which sometimes take long to reach them,\u201d said Mr. Wamalwa during\nthe signing of the agreement with WFP representative in Kenya Annalisa Conte in\nNairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARID COUNTIES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CS also\nsaid the four-year partnership seeks to ensure that Kenya engages in projects\nin that will help change the economy of the arid counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe shall use\ntechnology to empower residents from arid counties to improve agriculture and\neliminate hunger. Since last year, we have used Sh1 billion to feed one million\npeople from Northern Kenya. We have to change ways of doing things to ensure\nsuch resources are used to empower them. We must prepare early for drought and\nplan for the future to avoid hunger-related deaths,\u201d added Mr. Wamalwa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MS Conte said\nWFP will continue to assist Kenya by offering relief food during drought and\nensure that the country comes up with strategic plan 2018-2022 to build a\nstrong capacity in governance and social welfare of its citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RELIEF FOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have been\nworking together with Kenya and it is time we help the country to come up with\nmeasures that ensure citizens from semi-arid areas get assistance and engage in\nprojects that uplift their lives. We shall use the cash transfer programme to\nensure everyone is assisted during emergencies such as drought and floods,\u201d said\nMs Conte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the CS\nvisited Inland Container Depot in Embakasi, Nairobi, to receive 200,000 bags of\nrice which is part of the relief food donated to Kenya by the Chinese\nGovernment to those affected by drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/State--WFP-begin-cash-transfer-programme-for-arid-areas\/1056-5146136-woox6x\/index.html\">original article<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\">Daily Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CECIL ODONGO The government in partnership with World Food Program (WFP) has pledged to implement cash transfer programme to rescue residents from arid and semi- arid areas affected by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}