Provision of life-saving nutrition interventions to vulnerable and underserved communities in Gogrial West State of South Sudan With financial support from the 2019 South Sudan Humanitarian Fund - First Standard Allocation (SSHFSA1) and in kind support from United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Program (WFP), World Vision South Sudan (WVSS) proposes to implement emergency life-saving nutrition interventions through a Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) approach for six months in Gogrial West county in South Sudan. These interventions will target children under five years (CU5) and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) in remote and hard to reach areas of Gogrial West County. In order to address the critically high level Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate in Gogrial West, WVSS proposes to reach a total of 1,937 children (988 girls and 949 boys) with severe acute malnutrition, 10,716 children (5,465 girls and 5,251 boys) with moderate acute malnutrition and 7,346 pregnant and lactating women. Cases with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) will be treated in 14 already functional static health facilities in which SAM cases will be treated in Outpatient Therapeutic Programs (OTP) and MAM cases in Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programs (TSFP). 
In order to foster community participation and ownership of the project, WVSS will also use existing and already functional community structures including Boma Health Committee (BHC) members  who will provide community level administrative oversight to the implementation of activities in the facilities, Community Nutrition Volunteers (CNVs) who will help with community sensitization, tracing of defaulters and anthropometric screening and referral of PLW with MAM and CU5 with MAM and also cases of SAM , and mother to mother support groups (MtMSGs) through which women of reproductive age will share experiences and educate each other on key health, WASH and nutrition issues with oversight from the Lead Mothers. As a preventive approach, WVSS will conduct a series of well-structured community education sessions with emphasis on Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition practice (MIYCN), Hygiene promotion and community awareness on causes, prevention of malnutrition, early identification of malnutrition in children and timely seeking of health and nutrition services.  
In order for the beneficiaries to have access to a continuum of care, and ensure maximum impact and sustainability, this SSHF project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other sectors such as health, WASH, food security amp Livelihood (FSL) and food assistance. 
For example, cases of MAM and SAM discharged from OTP, TSFP, and SCs will be referred to other programs such as FSL, food assistance and health where they will have access to additional services.
From the phase of project design to the phase of implementation and monitoring, WVSS will ensure that the beneficiaries are involved. Additionally, WVSS will put in place accountability to affected population (AAP) and feedback mechanisms through which community members will share their feedback on the effectiveness and appropriateness of the interventions and the challenges as well. These mechanisms will help in improving the quality of the interventions and will ensure that complaints from the beneficiaries are addressed within the scope of the SSHFSA1 project.     .