Emergency Health and Nutrition integrated intervention to the most vulnerable people in Al-Mudhaffar and Al Qahirah districts of Taiz Governorate.(Envelope 1 ) Qatar Red Crescent society (QRCS) proposes an emergency integrated Health and Nutrition intervention in Al-Mudhaffar and Al Qahirah districts of Taiz Governorate. The overall goal is to contribute in reduction of morbidity and mortality among vulnerable people. This will be done through ensuring adequate access to integrated package of Health and Nutrition services.

QRCS anticipates that this project will target a total minimum of 247,256 individual, most of them children lees than five years old, pregnant and lactating women and caregivers.

The activities will be implemented directly by QRCS in close collaboration with local authorities, DHO, and GHO Taiz. QRCS have been implementing health and nutrition projects inside Taiz since 2015 and approached by government authorities to provide humanitarian assistance in general. 

Al-Mudhaffar and Al Qahirah districts are selected based on its nutrition priorities as identified by the Clusters, and have high rates of Severely Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and Moderately Acute Malnutrition (MAM) cases, and face needs and gaps in health care and humanitarian assistance. The choice of districts was directed by the Nutrition and Health Taiz Sup-Clusters and supported by the Food security Taiz sup-cluster. 
Our core beneficiaries will be mostly Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW)  under-five child (U5) with SAM/MAM, parents of a malnourished under-five child admitted in CMAM program , pregnant and lactating women and caregivers of children aged 0-23 month targeted in IYCF program and we will target patients come to health centers . 

The cross-cutting and multi-dimensional nature of malnutrition entails the need for promotion of a holistic and integrated approach that addresses the treatment and underlying causes of under-nutrition. QRCS intervention aims to tackle these issues in three priority sectors with the following outputs and activities.

Nutrition Output 1.1: improved coverage and the quality of CMAM program in targeted health centers (21,090 individuals) 
- Provision monthly incentive to health staff working in nutrition program and Outreach health workers in health facilities.
- Training staff working in health facilities on CMAM program.
- Facilitate of supplies (RUTF ,drugs for systematic treatment  )
- Establish active case finding, referral, case follow up and communication for development (behaviour changes) activities on prevention of malnutrition, hygiene promotion.

Nutrition Output 1.2: improved nutritional status for the households had sever acute malnourished child (SAM) to cover their basic needs, including nutritional needs ( 3478 HH )
- Implement analysis to identify delivery mechanism of cash assistant.
- Establish of ad-hoc cash working group in every health facility that aim to facilitate coordination on cash.
- Distribution of cash to the households had sever acute malnourished child (SAM) to cover their basic needs,

Nutrition Output 1.3: improved optimal IYCF best practices among pregnant and lactating women and caregivers of children aged 0-23 month.( 13,501 individuals ) 
- Pre-Post  Assess of IYCF  practices , knowledge ,beliefs and attitudes among the target population
-Training of all health center staffs on IYCF communication strategy and activities.
- Provision of “safe and supportive “corners for infant feeding.
- Implement behaviour change and IYCF communication strategy and dissemination of IYCF IEC materials and IEC campaigns in community.

Health Output 2.1 : improved provision of  integrated primary health care  services in targeted health centers (174,171 individuals )
- Provision monthly incentive to health workers in the health centers.
- Provision full and water to health centers monthly.
- Provision medical equipment and tools to health centers.
- Provision medicines and medical supplies to health centers.
-Facilitate referral to hospitals in the targeted health centers.