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.”