The Kenyan government has partnered with Kenyan insurers to make its biggest-ever financial support payment to pastoral households as part of an effort to address drought emergencies in the Horn of Africa.
The government is expected to make a payment of over $2 million to more than 12,000 pastoral households under the Kenya Livestock Insurance Program, or KLIP.
The scheme is a ground-breaking, technology-enabled insurance program that uses satellites to monitor vegetation available to livestock and “triggers assistance for feed, veterinary medicines and even water trucks when animal deaths are imminent.”
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Jennifer Piettedisgeneration
Jennifer Ehidiamen is a Nigerian writer who is passionate about communications and journalism. She has worked as a reporter and communications consultant for different organizations in Nigeria and overseas. She has an undergraduate degree in mass communication from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, and M.A. in business and economics from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. In 2014, she founded Rural Reporters (www.ruralreporters.com) with the goal of amplifying underreported news and issues affecting rural communities.