Kenya is increasingly exposed to both extreme climate events and slow-onset processes such as recurrent droughts, flooding, and environmental degradation, contributing to displacement, infrastructure damage, and rising food insecurity disproportionally affecting Arid and Semi-Arid Lands. Kenya is also hosting a large population of refugees and asylum seekers (over 840,000 as of March 2026) seeking refuge from conflicts in neighbouring countries. From early 2025, unprecedented funding cuts have deeply affected refugees’ access to assistance and services, just ahead of the planned transition from a camp-based to an integrated settlement approach under the Shikira Plan.

IMPACT began working in Kenya in 2016 through its initiative REACH to monitor needs in vulnerable populations with a focus on refugee camps and ASAL Counties. Ten years later, IMPACT conducts the yearly Multi Sectoral Needs Assessment to provide humanitarian actors with a deep understanding of needs and access to services in parallel of running the Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI) to guide cash assistance.