Provision of life-saving integrated Food security  Nutrition community-based services for the vulnerable people in North-West Syria. This project aims to provide integrated FS and nutrition services through:
- Empowering women by training them on food processing and distributing small grants 
- Distributing cash vouchers for HHs with malnutrition cases and high vulnerability scores.
- Activation 10 RRTs to provide integrated nutrition, health, child protection, and hygiene promotion services.
The services shall be delivered at 15 communities at the following subdistricts: Dana, Qourqeena, Atareb, Jandairis, Afrin, Sharan. 
A-	FS activities:
1-	training 300 female-headed households:
- Theoretical part include (food processing, HACCP, business management, marketing) one month
- Practical part include topics on food producing (12 weeks)
2- Distributing 300 food processing tools-vouchers with value 120 $ per woman.
Those assets can be used sustainably in future small projects by women. 
3- Distributing 300 raw materials-vouchers with value 200 $ per woman divided on 4 rounds/months. 
these vouchers will be used to produce food came from vegetables, fruits, or milk.
That small grant aims to encourage women to start their small business projects. 
4- Establishing women groups and building their capacity to empower them.  
5- Distributing cash vouchers with value 60$ (4 rounds to 536 households)
we will target families having children with SAM and high vulnerability score
B- Nutrition Activities
1- CMAM amp IYCF programs:
- Screening, treatment, referral and follow up children 6-59, PLWs for acute malnutrition 
- Distribute micronutrients and nutrition supplementation for preventing anemia and malnutrition among children and PLWs
- Disseminate messages on IYCF-E recommended feeding practices
- Support health/nutrition education and promotion through IEC materials in line with cluster recommendations during COVID19

This intervention will be integrated with other services (health, Wash and Child protection) according to RRTs ToR
This project will be managed and run with full restriction to COVID-19 protection measures, for exam the beneficiaries using the checklist agreed by health cluster task force and measurement the fever to identify the suspected cases of COVID-19 and to inform the EWARN team about the suspected cases.
IHR will implement all FSL activities in all 15 communities. and IHR will implement nutrition services in Afrin district. while AFAQ will implement nutrition activities in remain areas.
The added value of the partnership between IHR and AFAQ, that IHR has good experience in women vocational training and cash vouchers activities. Also, having strong access to Afrin district where the gap is in both sectors. while AFAQ has strong and proven capacity in nutrition programs and strong presence in Idlib.
All the nutrition staff to be contracted will be selected according to a mandatory selection criteria which is the presence of previous experience in implementing similar programs (IYCF – CMAM). Then, AFAQ core team will conduct refreshing training related to the Nutrition program (IYCF-E and CMAM) for all field technical staff. Taking into consideration, the project duration is 12 months and service delivery duration is 11 months which gives us one month of preparation to recruit the teams and conducting the training. As well as AFAQ will provide coaching and on job training for the contracted teams during the services delivery.
The complementarity fund available for this project will include nutrition supplies covered by UNICEF and nutrition refreshing training covered by AFAQ. BoQ attached for the nutrition supplies and training plan.
This project will synergize the impact for both programs. Because We will coordinate all of our humanitarian interventions with the relevant clusters as well as the humanitarian actors in order to avoid overlapping and to provide life-saving and sustainable services for the vulnerable population including IDPs and people with special needs including disabilities.