Provision of equitable access to quality integrated lifesaving curative and preventive emergency primary health care and nutrition services to drought affected children, women and men including disables in Garbaharey District, Somalia. This project is an integrated response to  Health and Nutrition. It is intended to mitigate the physical and protection consequences of drought on populations and communities in Gedo region, in particular, Garbaharey District. The main objective of this project is to provide integrated life-saving emergency primary health and Nutrition services to 13,450 (Nutrition: 4100 Boys, 4050 Girls and 2,700 PLW, for Health: 4100 Boys, 4050 Girls, 2,700 Women, 2600 men) affected direct beneficiaries in Garbaharey through the provision of five IERT teams for integrated services and one health and nutrition facility in Waberi location to serve the drought displaced population using a health facility constructed by IOM long ago that has never  been operated . The operationalization of this facility will enable and ease the  health needs of the people in that area. GEWDO emphasis will be on maternal, neonatal and child health including emergency immunization, psychosocial support, GBV referral to the host communities, rural hard to reach areas and IDPs as well as treatment of severe acute malnutrition, building the capacity of health workers through training on integrated management of acute illness IMCI, Cholera/measles case management, mental health and psychosocial and Basic emergency obstetric and newborn care(BEMONC) which will be done to equip health workers with the required skills to deliver quality healthcare services. GEWDO will closely coordinate with Garbaharey District ,Jubaland state MOH as well as Federal level MOH and social mobilizers, elders all involved in activities on mobilizing communities.  As well, GEWDO will capacity build the community religious groups, elders, women and youth leaders on mental health and psychosocial basic support training to further ensure the community members/leaders engagement and involvement in community mental health services and importance of community education on the available psychosocial and SGBV within the GEWDO IERT team in Garbaharey target sites.
On the other hand, the nutrition component intends to achieve comprehensive outreach outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Program [TSFP] integrated with primary health care services managed by GEWDO thus providing more holistic opportunity to the target beneficiaries. It shall also endeavor to provide caregivers with infant and young child feeding practices, infant and young child feeding  in emergency (IYC-E) promotion session for better information dissemination to the caregivers in the project area, Referral of malnourished children with severely complicated cases will be done to the target under five boys and girls and capacity building of nutrition staff on IMAM/IYCF services, infant young child feeding best practices (IYCF). However ,GEWDO will ensure to undertake health and Nutrition activities that will be integrated in the sense that under five children boys, girls admitted at the OTP sites will be immunized against measles and other communicable disease and as well the SAM complicated cases referred to the stabilization centers for proper medical treatment.  On the same note, the mothers visiting  antenatal and postnatal at the mobile clinic will be provided both nutrition, health  and shall be integrated with hygiene promotions activities such as hand washing practices.
To ensure proper services delivery at Waberi,(fixed MCH),Faraxguun,Harta cad,Xashirneer,Masalladuun,Bula Fulay OTP/TSFP integrated with outreach/mobile clinic will be provided to the hard to reach areas. GEWDO with its technical team will integrate surveillance and emergency preparedness in the program in this drought time so that enough steps are taken in ensuring early response to both health and nutrition cases and this will be coordinated with the local actors in the region.
Finally, GEWDO will coordinate with Health and Nutrition clusters to enable achieve maximum impact to beneficiaries in the targeted project location