Provision of integrated lifesaving health and nutrition services to drought affected population in Baidoa district of Bay region Decades of conflict, disease outbreaks, widespread poverty and recurrent climatic shocks, including the ongoing drought emergency, have devastated Somalia. Approximately 7.8 million people are affected, with over 1.1 million displaced. By July 2022, acute malnutrition levels among children under five had reached 24.9 percent among rural populations and 28.6 percent among newly-arrived IDPs, while mortality levels reached 1.69 deaths per 10,000 people per day among rural populations and 1.11 deaths per 10,000 people per day among newly-arrived IDPs. These results, which are in the presence of food assistance reaching over 25 percent of the population, are indicative of Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes and are nearing the Famine (IPC Phase 5) thresholds
New-Ways is proposing 9-month integrated Health and Nutrition project targeting the most affected populations in Baidoa district reaching a total of 20,000 persons including 10,500 women, 1,500 Men, 4,000 girls and 4,000 boys)

Health: The proposed project will support 2 static and 3 mobile IERT centres in Baidoa district. New-Ways plans to deliver an integrated package of promotive, preventive and curative maternal, new-born amp child health services and scale-up outbreak early warning and response and case management of epidemic prone diseases through IERT response team as part of the efforts to support the drought affected communities in Baidoa. The project aims to scale-up the static and mobile clinics in Baidoa IDP and host community’s sites and scale up the health care through skilled health professionals. New-Ways through this project will provide regular medical supplies and life-saving drugs to established health facilities, establish referral mechanisms and improve the coverage of measles vaccinations, support safe motherhood and reproductive health while also ensuring readiness to prevent and respond to outbreaks such as malaria, measles or AWD/Cholera and promote health update through health education and beneficiary sensitization

Nutrition: The proposed nutrition activities will be integrated with the health interventions with the aim of addressing underlying causes of high levels malnutrition as well as to enable early identification of SAM cases for treatment 3 mobile and 2 fixed in targeted IDPs and host community in the most affected areas in Baidoa district. This program will establish a strong community network through competent community nutrition volunteers for early detection/case finding and referral of children and pregnant and lactating mothers with acute malnutrition. In addition to the treatment of acute malnutrition, the project will be promoting positive infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practice by providing IYCF promotion and counselling. New-Ways is strong partner for the nutrition cluster and therefore, will have close coordination with other partners in the district for identification of vulnerable communities and avoiding overlapping of responses. Through this project, a total 20,000 most affected individuals in Baidoa will have access to a package of Emergency lifesaving integrated health and nutrition services for nine months. The mobile IERT teams and static sites will provide comprehensive community screening, identification, treatment and referral services from community, IDP areas to the fixed OTP to improve access to the integrated package for the vulnerable community prioritizing rapid referral of the most critical cases (priority will be given to under 5 children and pregnant and lactating women), it shall also capacity building of nutrition staff on IMAM, infant young child feeding best practices, IYCF. Referral of malnourished children with complicated cases will be done to the OTP integrated with PHC services managed by New-Ways thus providing more holistic opportunity to the target beneficiaries.The target sites are (Fixed Baidoa and Awdiinle) and the mobile IERT sites are: Misgale, Aw Shiine and Qaahira Wiin.