Acknowledgments
This report was led by Florence Nimoh (UNHCR), together with the team consisting of Theresa Beltramo (UNHCR), Jedediah Fix (UNHCR), Felix Appler (World Bank), Utz Pape (World Bank) and Laura
Abril Ríos Rivera (World Bank). This report benefitted from comments by Felix Schmieding (UNHCR,
JDC) and Craig Loschmann (UNHCR). The data collection took place as part of a joint preregistration
activity between the Government of Kenya, including the National Bureau of Statistics, and UNHCR.
UNHCR Assistant Protection Officer Wanja Munaita provided leadership and coordination, under the
supervision of UNHCR Deputy Representative Protection, Walpurga Englbrecht, with support from
UNHCR Assistant Representative Programme, Ivana Unluova, and technical assistance from Helge
Brunborg (Statistics Norway), Sebastian Steinmuller (UNHCR), and Sadiq Kwesi Boateng (UNHCR).
The team is grateful to the Shona people without whose participation, insights, and contributions this
work would not be possible.
The team would like to thank the peer reviewers Arthur Alik Lagrange (World Bank) and Dhiraj Sharma
(World Bank).
Finally, the team would like to express its gratitude to the Government of Kenya for their collaboration
and to recognize UNHCR Kenya Representative, Fathiaa Abdalla; UNHCR (then) Director of Division of
Resilience and Solutions, Ewen Macleod; UNHCR Division of Resilience and Solutions Chief of Section
for Partnerships Analytics Research and Knowledge, Betsy Lippman; and UNHCR Division of International Protection Chief of Section for Statelessness, Melanie Khanna, who provided the vision and
support for this project.
This report is part of the program “Building the Evidence on Protracted Forced Displacement: A
Multi-Stakeholder Partnership.” The program is funded by UK aid from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). It is managed by the World Bank Group (WBG) and was
established in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The
scope of the program is to expand the global knowledge on forced displacement by funding quality
research and disseminating results for the use of practitioners and policy makers. This work does not
necessarily reflect the views of DFID, the WBG, or UNHCR.
This work is also part of the Prospects partnership program funded through the Multi Donor Trust
Fund for Forced Displacement (FDTF) administered by the World Bank.
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