http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/24 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:34:21 GMT 2026-04-21T13:34:21Z http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/579 RELEVANCE OF CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMME ON ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTHCARE AMONG REFUGEES IN KAKUMA CAMP, KENYA Lumumba, Lusire G.; Macharia, Elijah Ndung’u, PhD; Shanyisia, Wilkister M, PhD; Norvy, Paul, PhD Cash transfers may have direct and indirect impact on health status of refugees in camps. The cash transfer programme in Kakuma camp was intended to help refugees realize improved social welfare but experience indicates that refugees continue to face a backlash when it comes to social development dimensions including access to quality healthcare. Therefore, this study sought to establish the impact of cash transfer programme on access to quality healthcare among refugees in Kakuma camp. Social systems theory, resilience theory and social development model guided the study. A convergent parallel mixed method design was adopted. The sample size was 400 comprising of 370 refugees selected using simple random, 5 key informants and 25 refugee community leaders selected purposively. Questionnaires, interviews and FGDs were used. SPSS analysed quantitative data while thematic analysis was for qualitative data. Tables, graphs, charts and verbatives were employed. Findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between cash transfer and access to quality healthcare among refugees in Kakuma camp (P- = 0.133>0.05). The study concluded that cash transfer has not had much contribution on improving access to quality healthcare among refugees in Kakuma camp. The impact of cash transfer was too little because it mostly related to the transportation to health facilities. These findings had professional implications to social policy and welfare social work practice as its focus was premised on the wellbeing among refugees. The study recommends that UNHCR and its partners and GoK should strategize to include the component of healthcare in the cash transfer programme by providing supplementary funding to households to cater for healthcare. Subsequently, health insurance covers for refugees should be integrated in the cash transfer programme to facilitate specialized healthcare outside Kakuma camp and aid refugees suffering from terminal diseases like cancer which need extensive resources for treatment. Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/579 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/572 RELEVANCE OF CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMME ON ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTHCARE AMONG REFUGEES IN KAKUMA CAMP, KENYA Lusire G. Lumumba, Norvy Paul, , Wilkister M. Shanyisa, Elijah Macharia Ndung’u Cash transfers may have direct and indirect impact on health status of refugees in camps. The cash transfer programme in Kakuma camp was intended to help refugees realize improved social welfare but experience indicates that refugees continue to face a backlash when it comes to social development dimensions including access to quality healthcare. Therefore, this study sought to establish the impact of cash transfer programme on access to quality healthcare among refugees in Kakuma camp. Social systems theory, resilience theory and social development model guided the study. A convergent parallel mixed method design was adopted. The sample size was 400 comprising of 370 refugees selected using simple random, 5 key informants and 25 refugee community leaders selected purposively. Questionnaires, interviews and FGDs were used. SPSS analysed quantitative data while thematic analysis was for qualitative data. Tables, graphs, charts and verbatives were employed. Findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between cash transfer and access to quality healthcare among refugees in Kakuma camp (P- = 0.133>0.05). The study concluded that cash transfer has not had much contribution on improving access to quality healthcare among refugees in Kakuma camp. The impact of cash transfer was too little because it mostly related to the transportation to health facilities. These findings had professional implications to social policy and welfare social work practice as its focus was premised on the wellbeing among refugees. The study recommends that UNHCR and its partners and GoK should strategize to include the component of healthcare in the cash transfer programme by providing supplementary funding to households to cater for healthcare. Subsequently, health insurance covers for refugees should be integrated in the cash transfer programme to facilitate specialized healthcare outside Kakuma camp and aid refugees suffering from terminal diseases like cancer which need extensive resources for treatment Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/572 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/571 RELEVANCE OF CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMME ON PROMOTING NUTRITION SECURITY AMONG REFUGEES IN KAKUMA CAMP, KENYA Lusire G. Lumumba, Norvy Paul, Wilkister M. Shanyisa, Elijah Macharia Ndung’u Cash transfers in refugee camps globally were purposed to enable refugees face enhanced social wellbeing, social functioning and reduce reliance on negative coping strategy thereby realizing social development as emphasized by the social work principle of human dignity and self-reliance. The cash transfer programme in Kakuma camp was intended to help refugees realize improved social welfare but experience indicates that refugees continue to face a backlash when it comes to social development dimensions including food security. This study sought to examine the contribution of cash transfer programme on nutrition security among refugees in Kakuma camp, Kenya. Social systems theory, resilience theory and social development model guided the study. A convergent parallel mixed method design was adopted. The sample size was 400 comprising of 370 refugees selected using simple random, 5 key informants and 25 refugee community leaders selected purposively. Questionnaires, interviews and FGDs were used. SPSS version 27 analysed quantitative data while thematic analysis was for qualitative data. Tables, graphs, charts and verbatives were employed. Findings revealed that cash transfer programme had a strong positive significant correlation with nutrition security among refugees in Kakuma camp (r = +0.75 at P- = 0.043). The study concluded that cash transfer programme contributed to nutrition security among refugees in Kakuma camp. Findings had professional implications to social policy and welfare social work practice as its focus was premised on the wellbeing among refugees. The study recommended an increase of cash transfer level by UNHCR and its humanitarian partners. Similarly, a consideration by GoK and UNHCR should be made to fully adopt unrestricted cash-transfers that enable refugees to access cash through banks or mobile phones for purchasing food. Refugees should be supported to engage in income generating projects to increase food consumption and sustainability levels. Likewise, emphasis should be placed on nutrition security education and planning in relation to cash transfer management. Wed, 20 Jul 0001 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/571 0001-07-20T00:00:00Z http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/539 FOOD AID AND ITS CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCE AMONG RESIDENTS OF TURKANA COUNTY, KENYA Logiron Augustine Tioko, Jamin Masinde, Eric Rosana Masese : Food aid has become a major mechanism for stabilizing domestic supplies in food-insecure countries and targeting food supply to alleviate hunger and food insecurity. Few studies document how food aid has been contextualized by the residents. This study is therefore aimed to understand food aid and its contextual influence among residents of Turkana County. This study adopted a case design which was guided by social onstruction theory. The potential study participants were identified from households that were beneficiaries of food aid and sampled using snowballing technique to saturation at 45 households. Participants’ data was collected using in-depth and key-informant interviews as well as focus group discussions. The recorded information was then transcribed and analyzed thematically. This study reports that food aid is understood differently in various contexts from the household, village and national level. It can be concluded that food insecurity and resultant food aid is a major source of household conflict. There is need for enhanced community participation by humanitarian organizations, strengthened auditing initiatives on humanitarian organizations, diversification of income sources among residents of As a policy implication, the findings of this study demonstrate that there is need for legal, legislative and societal reforms on communal understanding of food aid and adoption of existing coping strategies. The theoretical implication of these study findings is that social construction theories are useful in the understanding of food insecurity as a social problem. Socially constructed meanings influence human behavior creating the need to deconstruct the meanings that societies bestow on food aid as an initial stage in mitigating food insecurity. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.tuc.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/539 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z