Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 12/2013

Effectiveness Review: Drought Management Initiative: Livestock Component, Kenya

Robert Fuller

December 2013

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

Kenya’s ‘Turkana-Pokot Drought Management Initiative (DMI)’ was a three-year programme implemented by a consortium of NGOs which aimed to mitigate the effects of climatic shocks among pastoralist communities in north-western Kenya. Oxfam GB was responsible for implementing the livestock component of this programme in three of the most remote pastoralist communities in the northern part of Turkana County. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in July 2012.