Safe Access to Firewood and Alternative Energy in Kenya: An Appraisal Report

In 2007 WFP agreed to co-chair the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Force on Safe Access to Firewood and alternative Energy in Humanitarian Settings (SAFE) together with UNHCR and the Women’s Refugee Commission (which worked under the authority of InterAction).

Following the launch of the SAFE guidance material in April 2009, WFP decided to undertake a series of feasibility studies to better understand how beneficiaries, particularly displaced populations, are coping with fuel scarcity and the related consequences, to take stock of existing responses by both WFP and partners, and to propose a comprehensive approach, based on the SAFE guidance, that addresses human and environmental protection, livelihoods, food and nutrition. To date, missions have been conducted in North Darfur (Sudan), Uganda, Haiti and Sri Lanka and Kenya, while another mission will take place in Ethiopia in the fall of 2010.