Kenya: Focus shifting to recovery, resettlement of IDPs

from UN OCHA via ReliefWeb

After two months of post-election violence, the humanitarian focus is shifting to help the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to recover and rebuild their lives.

"The resettlement of IDPs and livelihood recovery are some of the main areas we are now focusing on," Jeanine Cooper, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA-Kenya), said on 3 March. "We are putting in place measures to ensure that those affected can rebuild their lives."

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