Increase access to essential primary health care services for the vulnerable drought affected population in Baidoa town, IDP camps and surrounding villages. This project aims to increase access to essential primary health care services for the vulnerable drought affected population in Baidoa and surrounding villages.  The project also aims to reduce high morbidity and mortality rate for affected population in 12 months. This will be achieved by providing healthcare at designated health centers and also scale up of mobile health services to reach out to those who are not able to come to health centers. The most vulnerable people in community i.e. women, girls, children, PLWs etc. will be given special attention so as to provide health essential services. 
This project will be running for 12 months from August 2021 to July 2022 and will be targeted 40,000 affected community (12,590 women, 10,650 girls, 9,730 boys and 7,030 men) vulnerable populations who affected recurrent droughts and outbreak of diseases in the IDPs and the surrounding villages in Baidoa. Emphasis will be on maternal, neonatal, and child health including emergency immunization to the host communities and IDPs as well as referral of complicated cases and increased prevention activities (health education, hygiene promotion). Building the capacity of health workers through training on integrated management of acute illness IMCI, Cholera/measles case management and community case management CCM will be done to equip health workers with the required skills to deliver quality health services.
SAMA proposes the following health interventions
1.	Outpatient consultations, management of common child illness such as respiratory infections, management of childhood illness, malaria, Pneumonia, diarrhea.  
2.	SAMA will also provide basic emergency obstetric care BeMOC such as ANC, skilled delivery and PNC to pregnant and lactating women and MISP in emergency. GBV services including CMR and psych-social support services will be available to victims/GBV survivors. 
3.	SAMA will strengthen the referral system in Bay region. For example, women with complicated cases will be referred to General Hospital for further treatment and for Cesarean Section (CS). 
4.	SAMA has a partnership with MoH SFG/UNICEF will conduct routine and supplementary immunization to children under the age of five years. 
5.	The capacity of health staff (18 female, 12 male) will be improved through training while community members will also be increased their knowledge and skills on disaster risk reduction, AWD prevention, identification of cases, and early referral to health facilities. The organization is an active health cluster member in the southwest state and will actively share information with health cluster members. SAMA regularly participates health cluster meeting in SWS/national level and RH working group in SWS.
This proposed project will be supported two fixed health centers and two mobile outreach teams in Baidoa IDPs and some villages surrounding Baidoa town. The two fixed sites will be operated in Doormar MCH within the IDP camps and this will be supported to serve majorly IDPs and the urban population while Geldere MCH is the second fixed health facility which will be supported to serve village populations who are often underserved. Meanwhile two mobile outreach teams will be supported to cover mobile population in the villages such as El-edow village, Munaabir village, Buulow Aw isaaq village, Boonkaay village, Laanbuule village, and Oore village. 
Effective referral pathways will be established between interventions and between the mobile unit and the health centers. Protection will be mainstreamed in the entire project cycle taking into account the needs of the various groups including IDPs, minority clans, pastoralists, women, girls and boys. SAMA will the existing actors specializing in protection services in the areas and forge close working relationships thereby creating a cross transfer of cases to ensure there is a continuity of care.