Enhanced Health Care, Nutrition, WASH, and GBV Response to the targeted populations in Dikwa, Magumeri, and Ngala LGAs in North East Nigeria ltpgtltspan id="docs-internal-guid-c0a53739-7fff-15b8-950d-ed7ffb92e5f4"gtltspan style="text-decoration-color: initial"gtThe lt/spangtltspan style="text-decoration-color: initial"gtimpact of a protracted crisis in Northeast Nigeria presents one of the greatest and most complex humanitarian crises fueled by chronic food insecurity, outbreaks of communicable diseases, displacements, economic crisis, and recent camp closure policy. Negative coping mechanisms have characterized the situation in Ngala, Bama, and Dikwa LGAs leaving more than 80% of the population with unmet needs including GBV, health, WASH, protection, and nutrition needs. To avert the challenge,  INTERSOS proposes to support and strengthen the existing community structures in the sectors of health, nutrition, WASH, and protection. Under health, INTERSOS will provide support to six (6) health facilities including the mobile clinics. These shall include MCH in Ngala and Rabiru PHC in Dikwa. The mobile clinics will be at ISS Camp, Kilaguro, Zulum, and Msamari camps. lt/spangtlt/spangtltspan style="" id="docs-internal-guid-da5b2247-7fff-b892-faba-03d6feef5b38"gtUnder WASH,  INTERSOS will provide life-saving assistance through the provision of safe water through water treatment and surveillance, WASH sanitation rehabilitation and operation, waste management, and hygiene promotion at the household level by ensuring emergency and sustainable WASH services are available for the affected population in the proposed health facilities and mobile clinic catchments supported by the health team. In camps and host communities. INTERSOS will carry out training for the necessary staff cadre to increase their knowledge of WASH activities. INTERSOS plans to preposition NFIs in the preparation of the lean season to support nutrition cases that might come up in the event of a cholera outbreak. Under the protection activities, INTERSOS proposes to focus on GBV responses by strengthening community-based complaints and feedback lt/spangtltspan style="" id="docs-internal-guid-da5b2247-7fff-b892-faba-03d6feef5b38"gtmechanisms that will allow women, girls, men, and boys to safely report concerns and protection risks. Additionally, INTERSOS is proposing GBV Prevention and Response for an estimated reach of 8000 individuals within Magumeri and Dikwa LGAs. Of those targeted  12,152 (80%) are women and girls, while men and boys make up 20% (2,558) of the overall target. Undernutrition, INTERSOS proposes to intervene in curative and preventive services targeting SAM and MAM under 5 children and their caregivers. The nutrition interventions are proposed for Magumeri and Dikwa LGAs. The specific nutrition interventions shall include, SC support in both locations, IYCF activities, and community MUAC screening, management of OTPs among others. INTERSOS will support two stabilization centers in Magumeri (16-bed capacity) and Dikwa (20-bed capacity). These shall also include a total of 4 OTPs ( 1 in Dikwa and 3 in Magumeri ). ltspan id="docs-internal-guid-7a3f6b4a-7fff-4d13-6784-366ed208586b"gtThe proposed actions will also reinforce the recently adapted family MUAC approach with the aim of boosting local capacity for early and timely identification, referral, and management of acute malnutrition among children and PLW in the H2R areas.INTERSOS seeks to address the challenges associated with the lean season by building on the successes from previous allocations that INTERSOS has completed as well as presently implementing. lt/spangtlt/spangtltspan style="" id="docs-internal-guid-da5b2247-7fff-b892-faba-03d6feef5b38"gtThrough effective UN-led coordination, INTERSOS will link these activities and services with the already ongoing humanitarian interventions, including health, nutrition, WASH, CCCM, FSL, and special services. These efforts are aimed at fostering synergies among the different sectors and boosting advocacy toward meaningful humanitarian-development nexus programming in the target locations. Additionally, INTERSOS will support the existing protection monitoring networks and advocate toward state and non-state stakeholders, UN agencies, and other sectors to address the identified gaps and prioritize needs. Communication with communities and a community-based approach would be a baseline for all INTERSOS interventions to enhance accountability to affected populations.lt/spangtlt/pgt
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