Table 4 Social layer of the communicative ecologies of Kakuma camp.

From: Information dependency: understanding the communicative ecology of young refugees in Kakuma

SOCIAL LAYER

Agencies

UNHCR, IRC, WFP, LWF, WTK, NRC, Red Cross, JRS, IOM*, community mobilisers

[*These are the agencies that young people have indicated they mostly communicate with directly]

Camp structure

Security, zone leaders, block leaders, community leaders, police, security committee

Personal

Friends, family, religious leaders, church members, Bible/Qur’an study groups, choir members, elders, boyfriend/girlfriend, barber, neighbours, team-mates (e.g. sport-groups such as the basketball group, the football group, the volleyball group), shepherds, shopkeepers, doctors/nurses, teachers/head teacher, culture/interest groups [e.g. Kakuma Reading Society, Ubuntu dance group, actors group, journalists group], messenger [sending someone to pass on information]

External

Turkana community, journalists from local media outlets/radio stations