Prevention and treatment of acute Malnourished children under five years of age, pregnant and lactating women through Outpatient Therapeutic feeding Programme with stabilization centre services to avert nutrition-related morbidity and mortality in Balcad district. The project seeks to provide emergency and lifesaving nutrition services to vulnerable drought-affected populations living in Balcad district of Middle Shabelle. The intervention will target pregnant and lactating mothers together with children under the age of 5 years among host communities, IDPs and returnees in Balcad district where we are the primary rationalized partner, Wocca will operate one fixed outpatient therapeutic center and 2 mobile outpatient therapeutic programme teams targeting six drought-affected villages in Balcad district. The static facility will be established in Muki-dheere village with the highest population among the targeted locations while the two outreach teams will serve 5 locations namely Kurshaale, Mareerey, Bulo sheikh, Bananey and Bulo Doonka villages. WOCCA has engaged with UNICEF, who will support the project by facilitating training of the project staff ,community health workers and hygiene promoters on nutrition screening and case identification, Integrated management of acute malnutrition(IMAM),Infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) and Nutrition, health and hygiene promotion (NHHP).The trained staff shall be deployed to the targeted villages, mobile and static OTPs where they will screen children under 5 and PLWs. Children under 5 and PLWs with SAM conditions and no medical complications will be enrolled to the static and mobile OTPs for treatment while the cases with medical complications will be referred by the mobile clinics and CHWs to the SC in Waberi star village managed by WOCCA for nutrition rehabilitation. Children under 5 and PLWs with MAM conditions will be referred to TSFP center managed by SHARDO. CHWs and Hygiene promoters will be trained on Nutrition, Health and Hygiene Promotion (NHHP), they will disseminate hygiene promotion messages to the communities to prevent outbreak and spread of communicable diseases like AWD/cholera during the activities as they move around with the mobile Team. Mothers will be counseled individually and in groups by trained nutrition staff and Community Health Workers (CHWs) on appropriate maternal infant and young child feeding as part of efforts to prevent malnutrition. The project will also provide micronutrient support by distributing multiple micronutrients (MNPs) and Vitamin A supplements to pregnant and lactating women and children under the age of 5years through the static and mobile facilities.UNICEF has been supporting WOCCA with nutrition supplies and technical guidance on previous nutrition projects within the targeted locations and currently supporting our SHF funded project running in Daynille and Kaxda camps. Therefore, for this project WOCCA will engage with UNICEF to provide nutrition supplies and technical support for management of SAM cases .To provide effective coordination, WOCCA will provide monthly activity updates with partners including Nutrition cluster both regional and Nairobi level, Other agencies working in the field who are doing other sector projects in the project sites will also be updated to avoid duplication and promote effective and longer sustainability of the project.