SQUEAC Report, Kambioos Refugee Camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2015

The Dadaab refugee camp is located approximately 500 km from Nairobi and 80 kilometers from the Kenya- Somalia border. The camp was established in 1991/92 to cater to the influx of refugees from Somalia fleeing from civil war. The Dadaab complex is made up of five separate camps i.e. Ifo, Kambioos and Dagahaley, Ifo2 and Hagadera, which cover a total area of approximately 50 sq. km within an 18 km radius of Dadaab Town. At the time of the assessment a total 353,219 (UNHCR progress data base March 2015) refugees are residing in Dadaab in five different camp sites. In Kambioos where the assessment took place, the population was about 20,000 persons of concern.

In Dadaab camp with leadership of UNHCR various national and international NGOs provide basic services tomrefugees including community base management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) services. UNHCR invited the Coverage Monitoring Network (CMN) to train and provide remote support for an assessment of the CMAM programme implemented by IRC in Kambioos camp using the Semi Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) methodology.