Provision of an integrated nutrition  lifesaving services to drought  affected communities and IDPs in Jowhar district middle shabelle region. ltp class="" style=""gtltspan style="font-size: 10pt"gt To
avert worsening nutrition situation in Jowhar, PDA will implement life-saving
malnutrition prevention and treatment interventions including mass screening of
children 6-59 months and PLWs and appropriate referral for care and treatment,
Integrated care and treatment of severe acute malnutrition through both static
and outreach clinics in IDP camps and in underserved and hard to reach areas in
communities with Fixed health centres in lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtRAQAYLE, MOHAMED FARAH, PRIMO ZENDO, LIBEGA, HANSHOLEY mobile
teams and GEDO BARKAN, BAYHAWO static OTP sites lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtlocations Jowhar district,. The project will contribute to scale up nutrition
services for early malnutrition cases detection and timely treatment and
referrals where necessary to avoid morbidities and mortalities related to
malnutrition. The project targets the most affected people who are pregnant and
lactating women and under 5 children who bear the brunt of the protracted
emergency in Somalia. The project will screen, treat and refer 7,000 under 5
children and 6800 PLWs in Jowhar district from both IDP camps and surrounding
host community for acute malnutrition and offer treatment and care to 2450 and
3368 under 5 children for moderate and severe acute malnutrition respectively.
PDAlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt  lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtwill work closely with UNICEF and WFP to
ensure 4420lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px color: red"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtpregnant and lactating women are
connected to the MCHN programmes and receive multiple micronutrients. The
project will also look into the bottle necks by addressing socio-cultural
barriers which hinder utilization of available health and nutrition services
such as health seeking behavior of the local communities. The project will also
work towards strengthening human resources for health and nutrition by engaging
in capacity building initiatives. The health facility staff engaged in service
provision will be trained on various thematic areas (e.g. IMAM and IYCF). The
project will also ensure the benefits of working with community structures such
as the Community nutrition workers (CNWs) and Community nutrition champions to
be able to address the nutrition needs of vulnerable groups, PDA will also
ensure integrationlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt  lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtof gender base
violence, child protection and PSEA mainstreaming within the nutrition project
intervention service to enable prevention, referral and case managementlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt  lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtof GBV/Child protection and PSEA among the
nutrition staff and community nutrition volunteerslt/spangtlt/pgtltp class="" style=""gt

lt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justifyline-height:normal"gtltspan style="font-size:10.0ptmso-bidi-font-family:Calibrimso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"gtltspan style="mso-spacerun:yes"gt lt/spangtTo promote Infection prevention and control
and cross contamination during COVID-19 Pandemic most vulnerable beneficiaries
such as families with children with severe acute malnutrition will receive hand
sanitizers, liquid soap and face masks. This will go a long way in ensuring
beneficiaries do not contract respiratory infections as they wait services at
various service delivery points location in Jowhar districtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp class="" style=""gt





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