Scaling Up Integrated Nutrition in Emergency services to conflict, most affected and vulnerable populations with a keen focus on Children Under 5 years Boys and Girls  (6-59 months ) Pregnant  Lactating Women (PLW)  in  Leer town ( Leer TPA )    Mayendit Counties in Unity state . UNIDO  operates  12  static OTP sites and  8 static TSFP covering all the 12 payams of Mayendit County and its presence felt since 2011 in Southern Unity. UNIDO is also running 1 OTP centre in Leer under EP/R HPF lot 2 which already ended in January 2018UNIDO  therefore is committed to continue offering nutrition services in Leer Town as we seek to ensure continuum of care for the already vulnerable populations seeking services in the TPA .
 Intermittent armed conflicts witnessed in November 2017 in Mayendit North and Leer town continued to exacerbate the nutritional status of the most vulnerable children under  boys and girls and PLWs.   .UNIDO being the Health and Nutrition lead agency in Mayendit County Under HPF 2 together with other Humanitarian actors seek to ensure continued Nutrition support to the affected population factoring in  promotion of  equity in access and participation of Men, Women, Girls and Boys in needs assessments ,project design and in implementation of activities Under SSHF with a keen eye on DO NO HARM policy is accordance with the CERF guideline on protection mainstreaming  . 
Effects of the declaration of localized famine in Leer and Mayendit on 20 February 2017, as well as the high risk of famine in Koch continues to be felt across unity state necessitating   UNIDO  to ensure continuum of care to beneficiaries who are now  in competition for scarce resources . This is why UNIDO in this proposed 6 month project  seeks to continue supporting beneficiaries in the greater Mayendit county and Leer town so they don’t feel discriminated and marginalized at this time of need .This proposed 2018 SSHF SA1 grant  will continue to address, respond and scale up nutrition needs in line with Nutrition Clusters 2018  strategy in priority locations by targeting Under 5  boys and Girls amp PLWs both IDPs and host communities in Mayendit county and Leer Town.  The project is designed to provide both preventive and curative services with inclusion of a SMART survey which will enable the cluster and other stakeholders to better decipher the nutrition situation and trends in Mayendit.
Treatment of children under 5s for severe acute malnutrition ( SAM)both   boys and girls with and without complications , treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition ( MAM) for childern under 5 both Boys and Girls  and PLWs will be provided by UNIDO in the already existing OTP/TSFP sites to prevent  malnutrition related deaths and reduce the prevalence of malnutrition . Community mobilizations and sensitization  campaigns on key nutrition practices and hygiene promotion will be provided to beneficiaries in Mayendit county/Leer town as well . UNIDO has presence in the above mention locations with UNICEF and WFP as the main donors  providing pipeline supplies towards treatment of SAM and MAM in children Mayendit  county/Town of Unity State. Children under 5 boys and Girls as well as other vulnerable groups (women ), will be screened in the community and referred accordingly. In addition  , we will run 2 stabilization centres in Mayendit county(1 in North 1 in South) with support from WHO , UNICEF and other independent donors .UNIDO will continue to use air transport as delivery mode to our project sites through the logistics cluster to mayendit and Leer town. UNIDO has linked our focus with the Nutrition clusters strategy to ensure synergy as demonstrated in the project sheet .