Provision of emergency lifesaving nutrition services for the drought and AWD affected populations in rural villages in Bay region. ltpgtltfont color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"gtDue to limited access to essential basic services, population in Berdale, particularly rural villages remains under-served. Children, pregnant and lactating mothers face unimaginable challenges such as acute malnutrition, child mortality, and maternal mortality. SAMA proposes this life saving emergency
nutrition project which aims to sustain essential
nutrition services for the drought affected
vulnerable populations Berdale and surrounding villages. The project will be implemented through facility based (2 fixed sites) and 2 mobile
approach that will cover 10 worst affected locations by AWD and drought
conditions.  Each of the mobile facilities will cover populations in 5
sub villages targeting a total of 15,000 drought affected with equal
access to (girls, boys, women and men. The project will be implemented in
complementary of current ongoing health and nutrition projects run by SAMA and
in close collaboration and coordination with health and nutrition cluster
partners as well as WASH cluster and Ministry of health. lt/fontgtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gtSAMA has active PCA with UNICEF and will have
access to nutrition and health supplies which will complement to the project
resources.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtltfont color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"gtNutrition interventions. ltbrgt
SAMA will recruit 40 Community Health Workers (CHW) to strength community
structures/ system for health and nutrition promotion. APP/GBV will also be
mainstreamed. ltbrgt
Screening of 5,000 children for acute malnutrition ltbrgt
Provision of outpatient therapeutic Programme in 2 fixed health facilities and 2 IERT outreach for the treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition. ltbrgt
Improve referral system for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition with
medication complications. ltbrgt
Promotion of maternal, infant and young child nutrition through preventive
services (MIYCAN, Vitamin A supplementation, deworming, MNPs) at health
facility and community based. (Target 5,000 caregivers/mothers)ltbrgt
Capacity building of nutrition staff on IMAM /IYCF services, infants young child
feeding best practices (IYCF), as well as conduct caregivers’ infant and young
child feeding practices ltbrgt
Nutrition interventions will be integrated alongside primary health service
provision such as immunization, ANC/PNC and skilled services., IYCF promotion
session for better information dissemination to the caregivers in the project
area.ltbrgtSAMA target locstions:lt/fontgtlt/pgtltpgtltfont color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"gtltbrgt
lt/fontgtlt/pgtltpgtltfont color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"gtBay, Bedale HC lt/fontgtlt/pgtltpgtltfont color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"gtBay,Berdale Horseed HCltbrgtBay Berdaale Heegan IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Midnimo IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Toosilow IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Iskari IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Eeyla IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Bayow IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Shibeelow IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Hanaano 1 IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Badbaado IDP outreachltbrgtBay Berdaale adablo gunri IDP OutreachltbrgtBay Berdaale jiiro Gurey OutreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Buulo iidow OutreachltbrgtBay Berdaale Tuutees Outreachlt/fontgtlt/pgtltpgtltfont color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"gt

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