Integrated Health, Nutrition and SBCC activities in Hays district in Al Hudaydah governorate The proposed integrated Health, Nutrition, and SBCC activities is directed toward the catchment populations of the three health facilities-Al Jarah HU, Shaab Bany Zuhair HU and Al Qalama HU as well as the internally displaced people
. The project target 9804 vulnerable beneficiaries (men, women, boys and girls) in Hays district in Al Hudaydah governorate. The proposed Health, Nutrition, and SBCC activities- through targeting three HFs as well as establishing two MMCs providing PHC services will participate in the overall action toward relieving suffering and increasing access to the essential health amp nutrition services. In addition, the HFs will conduct outreach visits one time per week for the supported healthcare workers in the targeted HFs to provide enhanced access to health services and participate in community mobilization along with the CHNVs. The project will take special consideration to the different needs of the targeted groups as the provided services will take the age groups and disabilities into consideration during the project phases from the detailed need assessment, implementing of the project activities, and closing and sustaining the project. According to the Health Cluster strategic objective #1, trends should drive to increase access of the vulnerable populations including IDPs to Minimum Health Service Package (MSP) in all levels of health care facilities, emphasizing on reproductive health, mental health and psychosocial support, severe malnutrition amp non-communicable diseases. Therefore, FMF would intervene in three Health Units to enable providing the services of the MSP, these include general consultation, basic trauma care, RH, IMCI, referral services, immunization, etc., however, the nutrition activities within the targeted HFs are covered by another partner. The Nutrition part of the project will be through the provision of nutrition services through establishing two mobile medical clinics besides the PHC services provided. The services are TSFP, IYCF, and nutrition referral services.
For the SBCC activities, FMF will recruit 30 CHNVs to cover the catchment zones of the three targeted health units with awareness sessions as well as accompany the mobile clinic in their work in the different IDP camps. The 9804 -targeted BNFs are those living in the catchment zones of Al Jarah HU, Shaab Bany Zuhair HU amp Al Qalama HU). In Hays, there are no confined IDP camps rather found living in the host community. The HCWs as well as the CHNVs will involve all groups of the community (men, women, boys, and girls), IDP, marginalized people, and PWD. FMF confirms the continuous presence in the HFs- through its supported Healthcare workers, staff, and the project management staff who will make the necessary field visits to the targeted community of Hays district during the project implementation period. From the point of providing complementarity services, FMF will coordinate with other partners in the same districts such as Ghadaq for development (GHFD) which is going to implement FSAC project to complement the IFRR approach and improve the linkages of malnourished children and PLW to the humanitarian services implemented by other partners. FMF has been active in Hays district in different projects related to protection. Moreover, FMF is considered one of the biggest HampN NGOs in the IRG areas. There may be a worsening of the health situation in Hays district and increased IDPs due to ongoing conflict. COVID-19 is another challenge. Moreover, there are multiple risks in the targeted locations, however, the FMF team learned from their experience, field teams address the risks and how to mitigate them, these risks are but are not limited to security, mine, social and cultural risks. each risk type will have special care and all the project activities will be done with extensive coordination with all stakeholders in the target location to avoid any miscommunications and minimize the probability of risks happening.