Theme: Floods and Droughts

Predicting the burden of acute malnutrition in drought-prone regions of Kenya: a statistical analysis

medRxiv

Francesco Checchi, Lucy Maina, Mara Nyawo, Rahaf AbuKoura, Suneetha Kadiyala

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Agriculture and Food Systems, Health and Climate Change
Year: 2025

Climate Prediction Center's Africa Hazards Outlook

USAID

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Rainfall
Year: 2025

Floods after drought: storytelling with agro-pastoralists in a Kenyan dryland

Frontiers Affiliated with the Odessa Centre

Anne F. Van Loon, Johanna Koehler, Marlies H. Barendrecht, Melanie Rohse, Moses Mwangi, Ruben V. Weesie

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Livestock
Year: 2025

A review of approaches to the integration of humanitarian and development aid: the case of drought management in the Horn of Africa

Frontiers

Guyo Roba, Samuel Derbyshire, Tahira Shariff Mohamed, Todd Andrew Crane

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Horn of Africa
Year: 2025

Gender Mainstreaming in Drought Management Systems for Agro-Pastoral Communities in Kenya’s ASAL Regions

IUCN Commission for Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) Natural Resource Governance Framework (NRGF) Working Group

Elizabeth W. Mwangi

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL), Floods and Droughts, Samburu County, Women Gender and Youth
Year: 2025

Help Global Report On Water And Disasters 2023?2024

High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP)

George Okoye Krhoda

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Disaster Risk and Reduction, , Floods and Droughts, Climate Change Impacts
Year: 2024

Diagnostic Of Urban Flooding In Nairobi: Report 2024

University of Twente

Lorraine Trento Oliveira

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Nairobi County, Floods and Droughts, Cities and Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts
Year: 2024

Ada Counterfactual Lamu County Flood

County Government of Lamu

Shee Kupi Shee, Susanna Jenkins

Type: County-level Documents
Theme/Sector: Lamu County, Adaptation and Resilience, Floods and Droughts, Disaster Risk and Reduction
Year: 2024

Impact-Based Flood Forecasting In The Greater Horn Of Africa

Copernicus Publications

Lorenzo Alfieri, Andrea Libertino, Lorenzo Campo, Francesco Dottori, Simone Gabellani, Tatiana Ghizzoni, Alessandro Masoero, Lauro Rossi, Roberto Rudari, Nicola Testa, Eva Trasforini, Ahmed Amdihun, Jully Ouma, Luca Rossi, Yves Tramblay, Huan Wu, Marco Massabò

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Disaster Risk and Reduction, East Africa, Climate Change Impacts
Year: 2024

Enhanced Hydrological Modelling With The Wrf-Hydro Lake/Reservoir Module At Convection-Permitting Scale: A Case Study Of The Tana River Basin In East Africa

Copernicus Publications

Ling Zhang, Lu Li, Zhongshi Zhang, Joël Arnault, Stefan Sobolowski, Anthony Musili Mwanthi, Pratik Kad, Mohammed Abdullahi Hassan, Tanja Portele, Harald Kunstmann

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: East Africa, Floods and Droughts, Water and Water Resources, Technology and Innovation
Year: 2024

A Real-Time Flood Monitoring And Alert System: Enhancing Community Resilience Through Technology Integration ? A Case Study Of River Tana In Kenya

International Journal of Engineering Science

Gabriel Kamau

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Early Warning Systems, Floods and Droughts, Tana River County, Climate Change Impacts
Year: 2024

The Impact of 2024 Floods on Schools

Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Education, Disaster Risk and Reduction, Infrastructure
Year: 2024

Impacts Of Floods On Sustainable Urban Development In Kenya: The Case Of Nairobi And Mombasa

Asia-Pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI)

Chisika Sylvester Ngome, Chunho Yeom

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Cities and Climate Change, Floods and Droughts, Disaster Risk and Reduction, Nairobi County
Year: 2024

Households' coping mechanisms with droughts and floods using finance, non-finance and the social safety net measures: evidence from Kenya

Springer Nature

Adan Guyo Shibia

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2023

Firm's use of formal and informal finance in coping with droughts and floods: experiences from Kenya

The Climate and Development Journal

Adan Guyo Shibia

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2023

Kenya Flooding In Eastern And Northern Counties: Briefing Note

ACAPS (Assessment Capacities Project)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Health and Climate Change, Floods and Droughts, Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL)
Year: 2023

Homa Bay County Participatory Climate Risk Assessment Report 2023

County Government of Homa Bay

Type:
Theme/Sector: Homa Bay County, Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Community-Based Adaptation
Year: 2023

Regional Flood Displacement Risk Profile

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: East Africa, Floods and Droughts, Horn of Africa
Year: 2023

IGAD Regional Flood Risk Management Strategy (2020 - 2030)

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, East Africa, Floods and Droughts, Horn of Africa
Year: 2023

Advancing Operational Flood Forecasting, Early Warning And Risk Management With New Emerging Science: Gaps, Opportunities And Barriers In Kenya

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Augustine Kiptum, Emmah Mwangi, George Otieno, Andrew Njogu, Mary Kilavi, Zacharia Mwai, Dave MacLeod, Jeff Neal, Laurence Hawker, Tom O'Shea, Halima Saado, Emma Visman, Bernard Majani, Martin C. Todd

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Early Warning Systems, Floods and Droughts, Climate Change Impacts, Governance
Year: 2023

Teleconnection of local droughts in Isiolo County in Kenya to el-nino southern oscillation and associated Atmospheric circulation anomalies

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

B. Wambua, I. Nyandega, P. O Ochieng

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Counties, Floods and Droughts, Isiolo County
Year: 2022

Hydrological Model Preselection With A Filter Sequence For Kenya?s Flood System

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Maureen A. Wanzala, Elisabeth M. Stephens

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Early Warning Systems, East Africa, Climate Information Services
Year: 2022

Coping with drought: Narratives from smallholder farmers in semi-arid Kenya

Elsevier

Amy Quandt

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Agriculture and Food Systems, Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL)
Year: 2021

Nairobi Solid Waste Management & Storm Water Drainage and Flooding

Catapult

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Cities and Climate Change, Floods and Droughts, Nairobi County, Waste Management
Year: 2021

The Effect of Drought Early Warning Systems on Vulnerability of Kenyans Living in the ASALs: A Before and After Analysis Using Interrupted Time Series

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Kimberly Asawo, Maureen Wanyonyi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL), Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Food Security
Year: 2021

Towards an IGAD Regional Flood Risk Profile

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Disaster Risk and Reduction, East Africa, Floods and Droughts, Horn of Africa
Year: 2021

East Africa Drought Watch Factsheet

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: East Africa, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2021

Effectiveness of Drought Risk Reduction Policies: Case Study of Hay Production in Kajiado County, Kenya

American Journal of Climate Change

Henry Mikiugu Mutembei, John Kaunga Muthee, Judy Kimaru

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Counties, Floods and Droughts, Kajiado County, Livestock
Year: 2021

The Effect of Drought Early Warning Systems on Vulnerability of Kenyans Living in the ASALs: A Before and After Analysis Using Interrupted Time Series

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Kimberly Asawo, Maureen Wanyonyi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL),
Year: 2021

Firms Coping Mechanisms and Resilience to the Impacts of Droughts and Floods in Kenya

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Adan Guyo Shibia

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2020

Qualitative Assessment of the Impact of Droughts and Floods on Key Macroeconomic Variables

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Naomi Mathenge

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Economic Development, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2020

Evaluation and validation of TAMSAT-ALERT soil moisture and WRSI for use in drought anticipatory action

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Dagmawi T. Asfaw, Emily Black, Emmah Mwangi, George Otieno, Martin Todd, Matthew Young, Maurine Ambani, Ross Maidment, Shamton Waruru, Victoria L. Boult

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Crops and Crop Yields, Early Warning Systems, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2020

Assessment of Meteorological Drought in Main Climatic Zones of Kenya

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

John Nyangena

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Weather and Meteorology, Rainfall
Year: 2020

Effects of Drought and Floods on Infrastructure in Kenya

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Humphrey Njogu

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Infrastructure
Year: 2020

Households Coping Mechanisms and Resilience to the Impacts of Droughts and Floods in Kenya

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Adan Guyo Shibia

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2020

Drought and Flood (Climate Change) – Social-Ecological System Destabilization – Conflict – Nexus in East Africa : Climate Change-induced Environmental Degradation, Food Insecurity, Migration and Violence around Mt. Kilimanjaro

Toin University of Yokohama

Takemura Noriyoshi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Conflict Peace and Security, East Africa, Floods and Droughts, Food Security
Year: 2019

Forecast-Based Financing Implementations in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2019

Suffering in Silence: The 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises of 2019

CARE International

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts
Year: 2019

Examining the potential contributions of extreme “Western V” sea surface temperatures to the 2017 March–June East African drought

American Meteorological Society

Abebe Tadege, Andrew Hoell, Catherine Pomposi, Chris Funk, Diego Pedreros, Diriba Korecha, Fetene Teshome, Gideon Galu, Guleid Artan, Kinfe Hailermariam, Laura Harrison, Sharon Nicholson, Zachary Atheru, Zewdu Tessema Segele

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: East Africa, Floods and Droughts, Weather and Meteorology, Temperature
Year: 2018

Building Resilience to Mitigate the Impact of Droughts and Floods

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2018

Business Experience of Floods and Drought-Related Water and Electricity Supply Disruption in Three Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 2015/2016 El Niño

Cambridge University Press

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Africa, Cities and Climate Change, Electricity, Energy and Fuels, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2018

Policy Options for Improving Drought Resilience and Its Implication for Food Security: The Cases of Ethiopia and Kenya

Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Agriculture and Food Systems, Food Security
Year: 2017

A Climate In Crisis: How Climate Change Is Making Drought And Humanitarian Disaster Worse In East Africa

Oxfam International

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts, Disaster Risk and Reduction, East Africa
Year: 2017

Population density of elephants and other key large herbivores in the Amboseli ecosystem of Kenya in relation to droughts

Elsevier

Benard Ngoru, Daniel Muteti, David Kimutai, Edeus Massawe, Erastus Kanga, Fiesta Warinwa, Hanori Maliti, John Warui Kiringe, Lekishon Kenana, Machoke Mwita, Moses Makonjio Okello, Nathan Gichohi, Noah Sitati, Peter Mwangi, Samwel Bakari, Stephen Ndambuki

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Conservancy, Floods and Droughts, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2016

Adapting livelihoods to floods and droughts in arid Kenya: Local perspectives and insights

African Journal of Rural Development

A. Quandt, Y.A.Kimathi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Floods and Droughts, Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL)
Year: 2016

On the margin: Kenya's pastoralists From displacement to solutions,a conceptual study on the internal displacement of pastoralists

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Martina Caterina, Nina Schrepfer

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL), Floods and Droughts, Pastoralism
Year: 2014

Drought conditions and management strategies in Kenya

Government Of Kenya

E. Mbogo, F. Inganga, J.M. Maina

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2014

Assessing drought displacement risk for Kenyan,Ethiopian and Somali pastoralists

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Justin Ginnetti, Travis Franck

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Pastoralism, Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL), Horn of Africa
Year: 2014

Community adaptation to climate change: exploring drought and poverty traps in Gituamba location,Kenya

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research

Amy Sherwood

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Resilience, Floods and Droughts, Kiambu County
Year: 2013

Kenya Sector Plan for Drought Risk Management and Ending Drought Emergencies 2013- 2017 (2013)

Government Of Kenya

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Policy and Legislation, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2013

Resilience Assessment Summary: Kinna

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2012

Resilience Assessment Summary: Oldonyiro

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Floods and Droughts
Year: 2012

Conceptualisation and measurement challenges in modelling pastoralists’ risk and vulnerability instigated by droughts in the group ranches of Kenya

Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)

D. M. Nyariki, E. Obudho, J. Njoka, K. Farah, P. Weke

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Floods and Droughts, Pastoralism
Year: 2010

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