HSNP provides regular and emergency cash transfers (CTs) to poor households in arid and semi-arid counties of northern Kenya. It is currently implemented by the GoK, with support from DFID Kenya. However, by 2017 it is expected that the GoK will take on the management and the financing of this programme, unless an extension is approved. HSNP is part of the GoK’s broader strategy for social assistance, the National Safety Net Programme (NSNP), which brings together all four CT programmes under one umbrella. Critical to this effort is creating a single registry and improving the current institutional framework for social assistance in order to effectively provide universal access to the vulnerable throughout their lifecycle.
