Integrated Health and Nutrition Emergency life-saving assistance to conflict and Drought affected communities in Dolo-Bay of Afdher zone, Dhuhun and Sagag of Nogob zone, and Tuli-Guled of Fafan zone Somali Region. Organization for welfare and Development in Action (OWDA) is proposing Integrated Health and Nutrition Emergency life-saving assistance to conflict and Drought affected communities in Dolo-Bay of Afdher zone, Dhuhun and Sagag of Nogob zone and Tuli-Guled of Fafan zone Somali Region.

The main objective of the project is to Provide lifesaving assistance on essential health and Nutrition services to all age groups with the priority focus on children under the age of five, pregnant and lactating women (PLW), elderly, people with disabilities (PWD), and people with physical injuries. The project will provide support to 65,532 beneficiaries by an estimated budget of $600,000(@$330,000 for Nutrition and@$270,000 for health). The proposed districts are hotspot classification priority 1 woredas for Conflict and drought response prioritized through multi-sectoral approach assistance. 

The project target woreda has an increasing number of people in need due to drought and conflict-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 project will provide essential life-saving through MHNTs consultations and treatment to deliver comprehensive primary health care services, reproductive health integrated with Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) prevention of COVID-19 pandemic measures to contain the spread of the virus, mental health, and psychosocial support, SGBV clinical case management, disease surveillance, Gender, Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Mainstreaming of Gender and Protection activities, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) including Therapeutic Feeding Program (TFP) and Targeted Supplementary Feeding (TSFP) for moderately malnourished children of 6 to 59 months old and malnourished PLW, Support the optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergency (IYCF-E) practices for infants and young children under 24 months and support the nutritional needs of pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and continuum of care. Mainstreaming of Gender and Protection activities will be also included. In line with the 2021 Mid-year review on Ethiopian Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), the proposed project will deliver a full spectrum of emergency health and nutrition intervention including prevention, treatment, management, community mobilization, and case identification to achieve and sustain the project impact. 

The proposed project will provide a variety of health services through the following  
 Provision of Primary Health Care services through MNHTs consultation and supporting static health facilities.
  Support Emergency Obstetric Care and provide reproductive health services integrated with minimum initial service Package and immunization of all illegible children and Pregnant women
  Provide Support to SGBV survivors on clinical case management
  Strengthening disease surveillance and improving the capacity of disease outbreak management and control measures.
  Support the treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition
  Support the treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM). 
  Support to Infant-Youth Child Feeding (IYCF) practices and community outreach regularly.
  Mainstreaming all activities to Gender, Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)