In 2017, Kenya became a pilot country for the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), which is supposed to create a new way of supporting and managing refugees. Kenya has also signed up to a number of commitments to new ways of hosting refugees as part of the Intergovernmental Development Authority (IGAD) Nairobi Declaration. NRC Kenya has partnered with Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) to publish two briefing papers looking at the challenges of obtaining movement passes and the importance of business permits in the Kakuma context. This research and the recommendations will contribute to broader discussions related to policy changes that can allow refugees in Kenya to be self-reliant, and contribute effectively to the economies of the Counties in which they are hosted, while they wait for a more durable solution.
Briefing note