UNHCR works closely with the Government of Kenya and in collaboration with sister UN agencies and a range of partners.
The Kenyan Government’s Department of Refugee Services (DRS) is fully responsible for conducting registration, documentation and refugee status determination (RSD) in Kenya. UNHCR provides technical support and capacity building.
Kakuma Partners
Government
Turkana County Government, Department of Refugee Services (DRS), Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)
Partners Implementing with UNHCR (NGO’s)
Danish Refugee Council (DRC), FilmAid Kenya (FAK), Finn Church Aid (FCA), Humanity and Inclusion (HI), International Rescue Committee (IRC), Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS), Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Lotus Kenya Action for Development Organization (LOKADO), Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Peace Winds Japan (PWJ), Refugee Consortium of Kenya (RCK), Salesians of Don Bosco – Kenya (DBK)
Operational partners (NGO’s)
Action Africa Help International (AAHI), African Higher Education in Emergencies Network (AHEEN), Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), Africa Inland Church-Kenya (AIC-Ke), Association for Aid and Relief (AAR) Japan, Barefoot to Boots (BTB), BOMA, Centre for Victims of Torture (CVT), Church World Service (CWS), Danish Church Aid (DCA), Good Neighbours International, Girl Child Network, I am The Code (IATC), INKOMOKO, INZONE, International Judo Federation (IJF), International Chess Federation (FIDE), IsraAID, Johanniter International Kenya, Kakuma Mission Hospital, K DE IGRATIUM INTERNATIONAL (KDII), KLABU Foundation, Malteser International, MPESA Foundation Academy, Norwegian Refugee Entrepreneur Deutsche (NRC), Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration (ORAM), Plan International, Schneider Electric, Swiss Contact, Team and Team Kenya, Terre des Hommes (TDH), The International Chess Federation (FIDE), Water Mission, Windle International Kenya (WIK)
Others (Development partners, UN Agencies)
Equity Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Organization for Migration (IOM), Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), SNV Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for International Cooperation – GIZ), SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, The World Bank, UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat), United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)