Provision of health and nutrition services to drought affected population in Zabul and Nuristan provinces The project will focus on addressing the health and nutrition needs of the population of Zabul, and Nuristan provinces. While nutrition interventions will be implemented in all two provinces, the health component will target Zabul only. The project will not overlap the BPHS service delivery in these provinces because the existing BPHS program has not considered drought in the design of their project interventions. The project has been designed for six months targeting a total 6 districts in three provinces (Parun, Nurgam, Wama in Nuristan), and, (Shahjoy Qalat and Mezan in Zabul). 

The project activities are aligned with the 2018 6th Reserved Allocation Strategy and they are effectively addressing the health and nutrition sectors’ priorities which aim at reducing the mortality and morbidity of the target population chiefly due to drought. The fact that ACTD has already contacted the existing stakeholders in the provinces especially ORCD which has BPHS program in Zabul and has ongoing programs in Nuristan, ACTD will have penetrating access in the target provinces. 

Apart from strengthening the referral systems and establish Oral Rehydration Corners in 45 health facilities, ACTD will establish 3 mobile Nutrition teams and one Mobile Health Team in Nuristan and 3 Mobile Nutrition Teams and 2 Mobile Health Teams in Zabul province. Apart from that these team will support SHCs in mentioned districts in vaccinations and Nutrition services such as identification and growth monitoring, service delivery and referral of malnutrition cases to other HFs. The mobile health teams will be tasked to provide basic primary health and nutrition services as per the BPHS and mobile health/nutrition guidelines. Apart from the provision of health services including SAM and MAM, project teams will provide hygiene education sessions, using the standard IEC materials developed by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).

ACTD will be the lead partner and will be responsible for overall technical and financial management of the project. ACTD will be responsible for overall implementation of the project activities, coordination and communication. ACTD will be also responsible for staffing, training and capacity building, monitoring of the project activities and reporting to OCHA, Health cluster and MoPH.  ORCD will assist ACTD for providing support and facilitation to the implementation being the BPHS implementation as well as support in the supervision, monitoring and evaluation and strengthening the Remote Call Monitoring component of the project. ORCD will implement the project in Nuristan Province and ACTD will be responsible for implementation of the project in Zabul province. This is while the entire overall management of the project will be retained by ACTD.  ORCD will  undertake the following: 
	Conduct further task analysis and develop detailed project action plan
	Assist ACTD in preparing monthly action plans for the project and follow its implementation  
	Develop and follow weekly reports for internal management
	Collect data on progress, compare with the project plan and prepare monthly and interim reports for the review of assigned officers of ACTD
	Develop monitoring and supervision mission plans from the project activities and make sure that follow-up corrective action plans are prepared and properly followed.
	Facilitate coordination with provincial authorities at provincial level 
	Draft the final report of the project before it is submitted to donor by ACTD