Emergency Nutrition Response in Dawro Zone, Gena Bossa and Loma Bossa Woredas Of the 15 zones of the Southern Nations Nationalities Peoples region (SNNPR), this project will focus on Dawro zone (Gena Bosa and Loma woredas).These woredas are more susceptible than others in the zone and they have been experiencing recurrent droughts and the absence of rain exposes the majority of the community to face serious shortage of water, impacting the nutritional status of the most vulnerable, such as children under the age of five. These resulting in chronic food insecurity in remaining priority woredas for emergency food and productive safety net programs.
Production performance of Gena Bosa and Loma woredas reduced and the factors that have attributed for yield reductions are late onset and early end of rain and its insufficiency. In addition, production performance of the woreda affected due to occurred maize pest (America fall army warm). Currently the supply food grains are below normal. Market situation is unfavorable because the price on food crops increased significantly while the price of livestock decreased significantly. The prices of food grains are very high compared to both reference year and last year. The supply of livestock to market increased significantly when compared to the same time of last year. The demand for livestock decreased due to increased supply and poor physical condition and the price is very low. The wage rate of unskilled labor increased but the opportunity of getting employed decreased when compared to last year and reference year. Generally the current food crop price is increasing and it makes the situation unfavorable for the population that mainly depends on market and it affects the food security of the affected population. Consequently, coping mechanisms have been witnessed in the woreda during the assessment like migrating to neighbor Woreadas for labor, increase excessive sale of livestock and reducing number and size of meal per day. Therefore, Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization (MCMDO), propose to implement the full package of Community Management of Acute Malnutrition in the woredas.
The full CMAM package comprises the following three components: 1) Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP), 2) Stabilization Centre (SC), and 3) Community Mobilization (CM). MCMDO will focus on providing of life-savings services through each of the components. The project will also focus on systems strengthening through capacity building through formal and on-the-job training, especially for the health extension workers. To ensure universal service provision, MCMDO will establish or strengthen 76 new OTP, and 9 Stabilization centers providing a service to approximately 1243 Severely Acutely malnourished children under five. The OTP distribution by woreda will be 36 in Gena Bosa and 40 in Loma. Similarly, SC site distribution will be four in Gena Bosa and five in Loma Bosa. 
Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Emergencies (IYCF-E) will also be attached to this standard continuum of care to help break the malnutrition cycle especially with regards IYCF practices. A total of 156 Health Extension Workers (HEW) will be trained on IYCF-E and 1243 households with children under 5 will be counseled on IYCF. Similarly 156 HEWs and 386 Health Development Army will be trained on community mobilization.