Continuation and scaling up of Lifesaving emergency essential primary health response project for drought-affected communities through provision of essential health services in Moyale (SM), Hudet, and Kadadumo woreda of Dawa zone Somali Region. Organization for welfare and Development in Action (OWDA) is proposing Continuation and scaling up of Lifesaving emergency essential primary health response project for drought-affected communities through provision of essential health services in Moyale (SM), Hudet, and Kadadumo woreda of Dawa zone Somali Region.

The main objective of the project is to provide life-saving assistance on essential health services to deliver comprehensive primary health services including sexual reproductive health integrated with Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP), management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) mental health, COVID-19 pandemic measures to contain the spread of the virus, psychosocial support, SGBV clinical case management, disease surveillance, focusing to reduce the causes of morbidity and mortality rates resulted from public health events. Similarly, the project will provide cross-cutting support to Gender, Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA). The project will provide support to 55,826 beneficiaries by an estimated budget of $ 300,667.54 The proposed district are  hotspot classification priority 1 woredas for drought response in EHF SA2 paper. 

The project target woreda has an increasing number of people in need due to drought -affected communities, Limited health services, overwhelming health needs due to the Prolonged severe drought conditions and concurrent conflict-induced IDPs, shortage of essential drugs, low capacity of the health workforce, high staff turnover, Low number of health staff trained on primary health care service provider which has limited capacity to undertake the routine activities. The impact of drought and COVID-19 cases amongst internally displaced people and host communities devastated their health service delivery and stretched the weak health systems to provide essential health service delivery to the needed communities. 

The proposed project will provide support to a variety of health services through
   Provision of basic essential/primary health care services/consultations through Mobile health and Nutrition teams (MHNTs) and support of static health facilities through health system strengthening
   Provision of Capacity buildings to health workers, health extension workers, and community members via training, workshops, sensitization sessions, coaching, and mentorship skills 
   Provision of Reproductive Health services integrated with Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) into emergency health service and Support Clinical Management of Rape kits and services.
  Strengthening disease surveillance and improving the capacity of disease outbreak management 
   Strengthen the capacity of district health offices (surveillance training, etc.) to respond in emergency settings
   Mass vaccination of all illegible children for measles and other preventive immunization antigens 
   Addressing social determinants of health problems through the collaboration of key actors
   Management of Children with/without Medical Complications of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)
  Provision of Prevention and Control measures of COVID-19 pandemic to contain the spread of the virus,
  Support mental health and psychosocial support activities and protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) to the affected populations. These will be achieved using the existing government health system/structure platforms, the well-established system at the local level, and the strong experience of OWDA implementations in emergency   and development projects