Health and Nutrition Emergency Assistance Response (NEAR) among the conflict affected communities in Al Waze'iyah and Mawza districts in Taiz. The project aims to contributing to saving the life people in acute need of especially the under five children suffering from severe acute malnutrition and improving the health and nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women among IDPs and Host communities in highly affected districts in Taiz Governorates. We will work in full coordination with the Governmental authorities and nutrition cluster and sub-cluster in Taiz zone and adhere to the national CMAM protocol and the international standards. 
Using a case-finding and home -based visits screening, the project will provide its services through involving the community in management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) where community health volunteers (CHNVs) will screen the children at homes and transfer the malnourished cases to the mobile OTPs for intensive treatment. CHNVs will be trained on screening using MUAC and referral of malnourished cases among children under five years to the well-equipped mobile OTPs and HFs, as per the national volunteers’ guideline. In addition, they will conduct awareness sessions to the targeted communities in public gathering or during the home visits. The project will also contribute in capacity building of the health staff within targeted districts through training them on CMAM package and quality health services by qualified national trainers using national CMAM guideline. 
CHNVs will play a major role in finding malnourished cases (children SAM and MAM and malnourished PLW) though conducting home visits and screening the targeted beneficiaries using MUAC, meanwhile performing awareness session on IYCF, proper feeding practices and hygiene best practices through the 5 established IYCF corners in the targeted HFs. They will inform the targeted beneficiaries about the schedule of mobile team’s visits to their localities and encourage them to attend the clinic to follow up those who are admitted into the program, to make sure there is no interruption in taking the therapeutic food and perform defaulters’ tracing activities. The mobile teams will visit every locality once a week to enroll and treat the malnourished U5 children (SAM and MAM) and PLW. Treat common child illnesses and communicable diseases provide reproductive health and family planning counseling session to the mothers and general health education to the public. Train the HFs and mobile teams’ staff and establishing 5 IYCF corners to conduct awareness activities for promoting IYCF for the frequent visitors to health facilities especially pregnant and lactating women.
The targeted locations were selected by the Governmental Health Offices (GHOs) in Taiz and in full coordination with sub-cluster coordinators to avoid any duplication with other humanitarian actors and to ensure the availability of well-coordinated referral system for the SAM children with complication to be addressed. The SAM children with complications will be referred to the nearest Therapeutic Feeding Centers (TFCs).

HA will coordinate with Taiz GHO to provide the required health and malnutrition treatment that was provided by UNICEF to all GHOs including Plumby-Nuts and the essential medicines. In addition, the project will complement with HA ongoing MAM nutrition project in Alwaze'yah and will integrate with other partners projects in the targeted districts, such as IMC amp DEEM (Health), SI (FSAC amp WASH), GWQ (WASH), and SHS as MAM nutrition Partner in Mawza toward multi sector package of services in line with IFRR approach.

Through 9 months the health amp nutrition interventions will support 5 HFs and 2 MMTs, 58 HCWs and 100 CHNVs (40 TSFP amp 60 BSFP) to reach 21,819 individuals with healthamp nutrition services and awareness activities (640 awareness sessions and 2560 home visits) targeting 19,200 individuals.