Failing the Internally Displaced

The UNDP Displaced Persons Program in Kenya

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• Abbreviations and Acronyms

• Preface

• Summary

• Recommendations

• To the United Nations

• To Donor Governments and International Humanitarian Organizations

• To the Kenyan Government

• International Legal Protections for the Internally Displaced

• UNDP’s Mandate to Address Human Rights and Protection Issues

• Kenya’s Internally Displaced: State-Sponsored Ethnic Violence

• The UNDP/Kenyan Government

• Displaced Persons Program: 1993-1995

• Government Undermining of the UNDP Program

• Inadequate Security or Protection

• Uneven and Discriminatory Application of the Law

• Harassment of the Displaced, Relief Workers and Journalists

• Fraudulent Land Transfers, Illegal Occupation, Pressured Land Sales and Exchanges 

• Forced Dispersals and Expulsions

• Missed Opportunities: An Assessment of the UNDP Program

• A Well-Conceptualized Program

• No Terms of Agreement with Government

• Providing a National Forum for All Actors

• No Comprehensive Data Collection

• Reluctance to Criticize the Government’s Human Rights Abuses

• No Protection Component

• Strained Relations with Donors

• Undermining Local Nongovernmental Efforts

• No Effort to Seek Long-Term Solutions

• Damaged Credibility after Abandoning the Displaced

• After UNDP: The Current Situation Facing Kenya’s Internally Displaced

• Looking to the Future

• Addressing the Gaps in UNDP

• Lack of a Strong Integrated U.N. Framework to Protect the Displaced

• Appendix: UNDP’S Response to Human Rights Watch/Africa
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June 1997   ISBN: 1-56432-212-2