Emergency Health, Nutrition and Protection Response in Aden, Lahj and Taiz Save the Children (SC) aims to respond to the urgent needs of the conflict affected communities in Aden and Lahj governorates. This integrated one-year life-saving project will be implemented to reduce child and maternal mortality, and to strengthen protection for children whose lives are being threatened by the ongoing and current humanitarian crisis. This will be achieved through provision of life-saving interventions in health, nutrition, and child protection. Health will focus on provision of newborn health, child health and maternal health at fixed primary health care facilities which will include curative care (OPD) IMCI, ANC/PNC, FP, EPI, NCD, management of normal delivery and essential newborn care in addition to basic laboratory services. The project will support 5 fixed health facilities (Dar Saad, Allohom, Alemad, Alsharkia, Albasateen) in Dar-Saad district (in Aden) and 5 fixed health facilities (Sabr, Al-Aand, Al-Waht, Al-Maghfa, Al-Hamara)  in Tuban (in Lahj) with minor rehabilitation and maintenance, provision of medical supplies, medicines, operational costs, technical training and the health system through strengthening the health information and drug management systems. Nutrition will focus on treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) for children and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP) for Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW), and promotion of optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices (IYCF) targeting caregivers of children aged 0-23 months old including micronutrient supplementation for children 6-23 months. Community volunteers (CVs) will work to increase the community awareness on hot topics that related to child health, maternal health and newborn health, in addition to detect the critical cases and refer to the nearest health facilities and treatment of simple cases at home. In addition, CVs will carry out malnutrition and IYCF screening, referral of acutely malnourished children and PLW to the health facilities for appropriate service, community awareness raising on IYCF and health and hygiene promotion. CVs will conduct follow up activities in Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) and TSFP activities for both children and PLW. SCI will support a SMART survey in Taiz, following a request and agreement with the Assessment Working Group of the Nutrition Cluster for SC to support this survey based on the 2017 Assessment plan.  Protection, SC will focus on protection and resilience of children and their communities through strengthening mechanisms and systems for provision of comprehensive case management services including making appropriate referrals in order to respond to urgent and critical cases of children affected by violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and in need of care and protection, mainstream child protection in health and nutrition interventions under this project as well as other response sectorial interventions in Yemen and conducting protection monitoring and documentation of the situation of children’s rights. Implementation will be in close coordination with Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP), Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MOSAL) at national, governorate and district levels.