| dc.description.abstract | The study sought to establish the services that the persons displaced by floods
received, the challenges they continue to face and how they cope up. The study used a
cross sectional case study design and applied qualitative methods of data collection
and analysis. Data was collected using in-depth interviews with nine male household
heads and nine female household heads (IDPs), two Focus Group Discussions each
comprising of nine household heads, males and females. The study used quota and
purposive sampling techniques to select the participants in the different categories
considered for the study. Data was analysed using thematic content analysis. It was
established that IDPs received services including food supplies, mosquito nets,
tapelines, clothing, psychosocial support and health services from Government and
NGOs such as Red Cross, UNICEF and Save the Children. It was noted that services
such as safe water, cooking oil and access to land inadequate. In relation to the
challenges they faced, they included shortage of food supplies, firewood, poor shelter,
intruders and early marriages. It was revealed that they adopted measures including
but not limited; to digging, operating small businesses in the nearby market, ding
small gardens of dodo, cabbages and beans. The study generally suggests that IDPs
are deprived of a decent living, they take poor water, inadequate toilets, rapists of
women, thieves, domestic violence and live largely from hand to mouth for lack of a
sustainable welfare distribution mechanisms. The study recommends the Government
to use its mandate as provided in the outline protocols on climate change to request
funds from the Adaptation Fund of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change to improve the standard of living of IDPs in Muhokya camp. | en_US |
