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Kenya Humanitarian And Resilience Network (KHRN)

Networking to Serve Humanity

OUR STORY

KHRN is a collaborative network for transforming humanitarian and development architecture in Kenya in response to the unending challenges Kenya is facing in both humanitarian and resilience spheres. The network brings together fourteen (14)
pioneering Kenya Local/National Non- Governmental Organizations (LNNGOs). The network embodies a locally driven agenda for change by building partnerships between communities, civil society, and the public and private sectors as well as
through the implementation of integrated and sustainable interventions across the triple nexus of Humanitarian, Peace, and Development.

KHRN embodies a transformative agenda to greatly contribute to shifting of power to local agencies in Kenya. Humanitarian responses deliver periodic short-term relief for the symptoms of crises rather than investments in communities’ self-reliance for the next occurrence of similar climate-related or human-made hazards. By breaking the silos of humanitarian aid, development, and peacebuilding and by creating much- needed spaces for local organizations to lead the way in seeking, scaling, and integrating solutions across these sectors, KHRN proposes local leadership as more than a means of realizing localization commitments.

Solutions We Offer

Decentralizing power

Investing in local members, with a shared vision, programs & policies and expanding representation from the private sector and government. Strengthen capacity to ensure local actors’ power, influence and leadership.

Integrated humanitarian programming

Coherently address the interdependency of humanitarian, peace building and development programming in areas highly affected by drought, floods and / or armed conflict. Delivering locally led humanitarian responses that increase agency, self-reliance and citizen participation, and promote resilience and stability of crisis-affected communities.

Access to funding

Support and enable member organizations to access funding & support from range of donors, networks and external stakeholders.

Fully locally managed anticipatory and emergency response fund:

Respond preemptively and effectively to local emergencies. Utilizing collaborative and community-informed early warning data to enable local organizations to support the community to mitigate losses and build resilience.

Influencing practice

Leverage expertise of local members and utilize locally led evidence-based research and advocacy to enable local actors to influence, lead, design, implement and measure integrated programming that reflects community priorities.

Community Led Response:

Adopt SCLR that enables external aid actors to connect with, support, and strengthen crisis responses identified, designed, implemented, and monitored by self-help groups among crisis-affected populations.
SCLR complements existing externally led aid interventions. This approach acknowledges the communities’ ability to
develop solutions that address the specific needs of the most vulnerable in their areas. In doing so, it breaks the cycle ofaid dependency that has been prevalent in humanitarian settings in many developing countries. SCLR builds on the foundation of community and collective compassion while rejecting the notion of individualism