Abstract
The Kenya government was between 2008 and 2015 completely stretched in terms of intentions and resources to resettle and reintegrate more than 650 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled their homes following violence arising from 2007 disputed elections. This study examines the strategies used by the government and nongovernmental actors in the resettlement and reintegration of IDPs in Eldoret. The study is informed by the Cernea (2000) Impoverishment Risk and Livelihood Reconstruction (IRLR) model which helps in the analysis and prediction of risk, impoverishment and reconstruction, in their relation to resettlement. It employs the ex post facto comparative research design to draw comparisons between 189 in camp and a further 189 out of camp respondents drawn from a population of 7,249 IDP households, regarding their views on the design and implementation of the resettlement and reintegration programs by the government and nongovernmental actors. Results indicate that the process suffered many gaps, like failure to profile the IDPs, poor distribution of resources and failure to consult the victims, which made IDPs doubt the commitment of the actors to resettle them. The study concludes that the process would have been conclusive if there was adequate coordination.
Highlights
Kenya, like any other country in the world emerging from a post conflict situation, has since 2008 been challenged in terms of intentions and resources in her quest for the resettlement and the reintegration of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) arising from the 2007/2008 post-election violence
Many other obstacles have undermined the efforts of the government and other non-state actors in the resettlement of IDPs, and some displaced persons continue to live in camps in Uasin Gishu County and other parts of the country
The main actors that managed the process of resettlement and reintegration of IDPs comprised the government agencies and local implementing partners, through funds from the international community
Summary
Like any other country in the world emerging from a post conflict situation, has since 2008 been challenged in terms of intentions and resources in her quest for the resettlement and the reintegration of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) arising from the 2007/2008 post-election violence. After independence in 1963 the government helped resettle most of the displaced Kikuyus in the Rift Valley thereby giving reasons to the Kalenjins allied communities the desire to recover their ancestral lands from the Kikuyus (Oloo, 2011). These grievances were rife prior to the 1992, 1997 and 2007 elections, when many people were displaced, but the humanitarian crisis was vastly experienced during the 2007/2008 post-election violence. Many other obstacles have undermined the efforts of the government and other non-state actors in the resettlement of IDPs, and some displaced persons continue to live in camps in Uasin Gishu County and other parts of the country
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