Evaluation of Effectiveness of Early Recovery Strategies in Use against Drought in Turkana Central Sub County, Kenya

Abstract

Drought has significant impacts in climate sensitive sectors in ASAL areas of Kenya. Despite the existence of drought early recovery strategies, Turkana central suffers from extreme drought conditions with negative implications on livelihood security. The study presents the effects of drought on livelihood options with great emphasis on the early recovery strategies such as crop farming under irrigation, livelihood diversification, sending children to school, social protection programs, livestock keeping/migration and social support network. The analysis undertaken in this study was to identify the effectiveness of the drought early recovery strategies used by the communities in Turkana central sub County to augment shortfalls occasioned by drought episodes. During the study, drought early recovery strategies were analyzed to determine whether they were able to withstand, cope and recover from the effects of drought.