Emergency Nutrition Response Project in SNNPR, Dawro Zone, Gena Bossa and Loma Woredas Dawro Zone is a Zone in the Ethiopian Southern nations, nationality, and peoples’ Region (SNNPR ). It is located about 500 Km southwest of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia and 275 KM of Hawassa, the capital of SNNPR. Dawro is bordered on the south by Gamo Gofa Zone,on the west by the Konta special Woreda, on the north by the Gojeb River which is defines its boundery with the Oromia Region, on the northeast by Hadiya and Kembata Tembaro Zone. And on the east By wolayita Zone the Omo rivers defines its eastern and southern bounderies. With this project will focus on Dawro zone of two woredas which is highly populated and drought affected woredas of Gena Bosa and Loma.

Gena Bosa  Woreda
Gena Bosa is one of the six  Woredas in Dawro Zone SNNPR. It consists of 36 kebeles and one Kebele is considered as an urban setting and the population size is 150,068 among this 17,952 children is under five.The distance of the woreda from the capital city of the zone Tercha is around 42 km. 

Loma woreda
Loma is one of the Woreda in Dawro Zone of SNNPR. It consists of 40 kebeles and the population size is 140,638 (Dawro Zone, Loma Health Office 2017 G.C). The distance of the woreda from the capital city of the zone-Tercha is around 39km and 600 km from Addis Ababa the capital city of Ethiopia.

MCMDO’s nutrition programme provides preventative and curative responses to moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM).Its Operational in this woredas with very limited resource, with this project proposal MCMDO is planned to implement CMAM program.  
This incorporated community based management of acute malnutrition project will provide support to host communities in underserved areas affected by the drought in Ethiopia, SNNPR, specifically at Dawro Zone of Gena Bossa and Loma woredas within this critical seasonal hunger gap period. The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction in nutrition related mortality and morbidity, and improves access to high-quality multi­sectoral life­saving nutrition interventions for the most vulnerable populations­ notably under five children and pregnant and lactating women (regardless of their nutritional status) for IYCF-E promotional sessions are conducted with men, women and children. This is accompanied by cooking demonstrations using low-cost, locally available, highly nutritious foods with Health and Nutrition counseling.
In this project,   Gender poise balance will be considered when recruiting staff for this specific project and most of the technical support for program will be provided to HEWs who are mostly female, and Woreda health staff who are both male and female. Project target numbers are planned by reviewing admission trend in similar months of the previous year and considering the current drought and food insecurity situation exacerbated in the vulnerable community group in the woredas. Due to the current critical seasonal famine gap most of the host communities are critically in search of Food Assistance and clean water supply. 
The proposed project will reach

 706 of children under five years with Sever Acute Malnutrition 
 7,068 of children age 6-59 months with Moderate Acute Malnutrition 
 1,065 moderately malnourished Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLWs)
 1,700 women of reproductive age and men will receive maternal and child nutrition education