The HSNP is an unconditional cash transfer (CT) programme targeted toward vulnerable households living in the four northernmost counties of Kenya: Mandera, Marsabit, Turkana, and Wajir.
HSNP aims to alleviate extreme poverty across these arid and semi-arid lands by providing regular CTs direct into beneficiaries’ bank accounts every two months. HSNP also makes ‘emergency scale-up’ payments to additional households that are affected by extreme weather events, such as drought. HSNP Phase 2 (HSNP2) runs from July 2013 to March 2018. The programme provides 100,000 households across this region with regular CTs, worth 2,700 Kenyan shillings (KES) per month (approximately £22/$27). Emergency beneficiaries receive a single month’s transfer (i.e. KES 2,700) if the area where they live is deemed to be subject to severe or extreme drought in any given month.
