Integrated life-saving support in health, nutrition, WASH, and GBV prevention Service in IDPs and host communities in East and West Hararghe of Oromia Regional state. The 2020 Ethiopia Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) outlined that some 8.4 million Ethiopians are projected to have humanitarian needs in the year 2020. The majority of the people in need are in the Oromia region accounting for 3.3 million of the projected cases due to natural and human-made disasters, that included conflict, disease outbreaks, locust infestation[1]. With all the existed challenges the COVID-19 outbreak increases the humanitarian lifesaving needs in the intervention area. This project aims to provide basic life-saving health, nutrition, WASH, and GBV responses to the people most in need with integrated COVID-19 preparedness and prevention activities to aware of the community and reduce risk actions.  
IMC health program will focus on the immediate needs of vulnerable populations and the associated basic emergency health response activities to IDPs and returnees to support the existing government effort on COVID-19 response and to access lifesaving primary health care services in Fedis, Gursum, Jarso, Doba and Chiro zuria woredas of East and West Hararghe zone, Oromia region. The planned effort will complement the existing COVID-19 pandemic and other reportable epidemic-prone diseases prevention effort. IMC also will provide psychosocial support for the affected population using 4 MHNT and Community Health Workers (CHWs) and the Health Development Army (HDAs). IMC planned to provide a lifesaving emergency Nutrition response in vulnerable eight woredas of East hararghe zone, Oromia regional state integrating the national and international guidelines for COVID-19 prevention. The nutrition program will provide full CMAM support in seven woredas of Oromia regions in line with the national nutrition cluster objective and priorities. The nutrition intervention will ensure timely access to lifesaving quality treatment of acute malnutrition and promotion of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practice tied with COVID-19 prevention. Moreover, the nutrition section will also contribute to health system strengthening within the National Health Extension Program and support early warning systems to ensure effective emergency nutrition response. As the DTM 20 report indicated that a total of 116,395 IDP populations have no access to improved water supply in East Hararghe zone of Oromia region and out of these, about 47, 870 IDPs populations are found in Meyu Muleke and Kumbi woredas, IMC aspires to bridge the WASH needs of the conflict-affected population and host communities in the targeted area.  The proposed WASH service will support the lifesaving activities in IDPs, returnees and vulnerable host communities through rehabilitation and maintenance of existing water systems, water trucking in the absences of other alternatives, development of ponds,   provision of HH Water Treatment Chemical (WTC), construction of gender, age and disability appropriate sanitation facilities (latrines), installation of handwashing facilities, distribution of hygiene kits,   capacity building, and hygiene promotion activities among conflict-affected 
communities who are living in targeted areas. WASH service will be integrated with the health, nutrition and GBV intervention to maximize the impacts on targeted beneficiaries. The GBV intervention of this project will provide capacity building intervention for government partners on life-saving case management service through a flexible and adaption approach to GBV survivors in Kumbi, Meyu, Bible, Chinaksen, and Fedis woredas of East Hararge Oromia region. And also provide lifesaving protection intervention to ensure those vulnerable groups, women, and girls has access for available service during COVID-19 pandemic. 
  [1] ETHIOPIA: COVID-19 Humanitarian impact Situation Update No. 01As of 31 March 20