Casual workers in urban areas hardest hit by the economic impact of COVID-19

Households which depend on casual work, generally concentrated in urban areas especially big cities, are the hardest hit by crises of food and income caused by the Coronavirus, according to a research by Twaweza.  

One out of three of these households (34 per cent) have seen the main breadwinner lose their source of income, compared to one out of four Kenyan households overall (26 per cent). And more than half of these households have not found new sources of income.