Community emergency nutrition services to IDPs, Returnees, and host community population in Nasir and Ulang counties, Upper Nile State. Socioeconomic situations in both Ulang and Nasir have remained dire since 2013, with various escalations of security situations last in March 2018 which resulted in population displacements. With return of calm and continued clashes in other counties, Ulang and Nasir have hosted over 40,000 IDPs. This situation is worsened by natural disasters such as flooding, drought and diseases, leading to increase in suffering and displacements of the already vulnerable populations. This is demonstrated in the high GAM rates for both counties i.e. 21.8% and 20.1% for Ulang and Nasir respectively.
UNKEA operates only 28 OTP sites (14 per county) and 2 SC in Nasir to serve a population of 288,704 and 95,880 in Nasir and Ulang respectively. This is inadequate due to the fact that many locations are not reached and have been locations for IDPs, therefore UNKEA intends to increase to 37 OTP sites by an addition of 9 new sites in hard to reach locations which are prone to hosting IDPs (4 in Ulang and 5 in Nasir). The new sites shall be, in Ulang Duk, Nyarkueth, Torkiel, Toaloare while in Nasir Wanding, Kier, Dhekdhek, Humkor and Nasir hospital. The existing OTP sites do not provide much needed WASH and FSL services that would improve the well-being of children and women.
UNKEA will scale up service provision by providing the most critical interventions such as 
	Treatment of SAM among children 6 – 59 months (2,540 targeted) 
	Treatment of MAM among children 6 – 59 months (6,994 targeted) 
	Screening and referral of 2,546 PLWs with MAM to MAM services under TSFP partners in the 2 counties 
	Training 34 health and nutrition workers on CMAM 
	Training 34 Nutrition and Health workers on IYCF/MIYCN counselling 
	Conduct individual IYCF/MIYCN counselling for PLWs and caregivers of children 0 - lt23 months 
	Provide Nutrition education session to IYCF/MIYCN support groups in the community 
	Monitor availability of nutrition supplies at nutrition sites 
	Establish demonstration gardens at all nutrition sites for on-site dietary diversity demonstration 
	Screening/testing and treatment of all SAM children in the OTP sites for Malaria 
	Conduct safety assessment at nutrition sites to identify and address women and children’s protection and safety needs including GBV referral path ways 
	Provide WASH kits to children with SAM in all OTP sites Establish child/mother friendly spaces in all (37) OTP/TSFP sites 
	Provide ECD kits for all OTP sites to enhance mental and physical development of children in the programme.
The project will be implemented with consideration of best practices and key interventions for gender/protection mainstreaming, and in total consideration of community participation.
All activities will be reported as per the timelines of the Nutrition cluster using existing NIS system i.e. bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly as needed. Data collection tools, monitoring tools, and reporting tools of the cluster shall be used.
Total estimated budget to cover the 2 counties is $300,000 (Three Hundred Thousand United States dollars).