Integrated lifesaving nutrition response to conflict affected and vulnerable populations (Children 6-59 months, pregnant and lactating women) in Nyal Panyijar County of South Sudan. Through this SSHF call for proposal, IMC is requesting funds to ensure continuation lifesaving nutrition (CMAM and/MIYCN) intervention and fill the gaps to address the underserved and affected internally displaced people (IDPs) and the host populations in Nyal, Panyijar County Unity state. Around 55% of the population targeted by this project are IDPs dependent on humanitarian assistance that includes nutrition rehabilitation. For the service continuation, IMC targets 41,467 IDPs and host populations in Panyijar county. The proposed SSHF funding will be for a six months period from September 01, 2019 to February 28, 2020. This is to ensure continuity of the nutrition program in the proposed areas that have a very high levels of GAM gt15% and already declared to be in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) acute food insecurity in May-August 2019. The very high level of acute malnutrition in these counties is attributed to poor food consumption, displacement and poor access to health and nutrition services, high morbidity, and poor sanitation and hygiene. In the presence of these aggravating factors, the situation can deteriorate further if humanitarian interventions are not provided or scaled up timely. Through the proposed project, IMC will continue to ensure that host communities and IDPs in these counties have access to high quality nutrition services by ensuring timely service delivery, regular supply chain, adequate staffing, joint supportive supervision, proactive community mobilization using the Boma Health Initiative and capacity building of all staff in key management and sector specific topics. 

The objective of this project is to contribute to the reduction of mortality, morbidity and impact of poor growth development due to acute malnutrition. Proposed continuation of nutrition activities in Nyal Panyijar County will focus on treatment and prevention of acute malnutrition among under-five children and pregnant and lactating women with acute malnutrition through management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) at outpatient therapeutic programs (OTP)/targeted supplementary feeding program (TSFP) nutrition facilities and provision of support to MIYCN focusing on the first 1000 days of a child’s life. The response will strengthen the existing static nutrition sites and support outreach nutrition services to address the underserved and affected population of Nyal, Panyijar. CMAM approach will be implemented through 7 existing sites in Nyal (4 static OTP/SFP) and 3 outreach sites in island villages). All nutrition sites in these counties will act as hubs for integrated programming, nutrition activities will be integrated with water, and sanitation and hygiene (WASH), food security and livelihood (FSL), and health activities in coordination with other partners for a more holistic approach and greater impact. 
The project will rely fully on the Logistics Cluster to deliver supplies to the project locations. There is an existing Field Level Agreement (FLA) with WFP for TSFP supplies in managing MAM cases and a program cooperation agreement (PCA) with UNICEF to support SAM cases in Nyal , This will ensure that we have smooth stock pipeline, through the project implementation