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Table 1 Focus group discussions

From: Community engagement in pastoralist areas: Lessons from the public dialogue process for a new refugee settlement in Turkana, Kenya

 

Location

Timing

Attendee profiles

1

Natukobenyo

July 2016

Approximately 10 rural residents, both women and men, mostly working in construction, petty trade and food service in the settlement; some tend small herds of goats

2

Naabek

July 2016

8 peri-urban village residents, 4 women and 4 men, living adjacent to the Kakuma camp, employed as domestic workers or porters by refugee businesses/households

3

Natukobenyo

August 2017

Approximately 15 rural residents providing labour or selling goods to refugees in the settlement; some tend small herds of goats

4

Nalemsekon

August 2017

Large gathering of 30 to 40 peri-urban village residents, both women and men, living adjacent to the Kakuma camp, many employed by refugee businesses/households

5

Kalobeyei

August 2017

Approximately 10 urban residents in Kalobeyei Town; mostly young men

6

Lokwamor

August 2017

Approximately 15 women and men from households tending herds of goats north of Kalobeyei Town

7

Oropoi

September 2017

Six town residents, 4 women and 2 men, living in the Oropoi settlement 40 km west of Kalobeyei Town

8

Nawounitos

September 2017

8 pastoralists, all men, tending cattle far to the west of Kalobeyei