Provision of lifesaving nutrition intervention to the communities affected by climatic shocks in Kismayo district, Lower Juba region -Somalia. ltpgtThis project is a response to the lifesaving nutrition needs of the Kismayo district communities affected by climatic shocks that have led to significant nutritional needs within affected communities. It is intended to mitigate the climatic shocks consequences of 2021 drought followed by 2023/2024 Elnino flood on populations and communities in Lower Jubaland region, in particular, Kismayo District. The main objective of this project is to provide life-saving emergency nutrition interventions to 14,500 beneficiaries (SAM:750 Boys, 850 Girls, MAM screening and referrals : 900 PLW, 900 Boys, 1100 Girls, IYCF-E: 9,400 Women, 600 men) affected as direct beneficiaries in Kismayo by establishing 2 fixed OTP sites at Hanta Biyaha and Suban salaam and one mobile team covering 4 locations these ate Buurdheere, shimbireey, Shabeeley and Riiqata through provision of lifesaving nutrition services. The project intends to achieve comprehensive service delivery such as community mobilization, screening, treatment and referrals at both static and outreach integrated outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) centers which will also be integrated by convergence with primary health care services provided by SCI  under the fund of SHF health project thus providing more holistic opportunity to the target beneficiaries. At community level, screening will be done by Community-based nutrition Volunteers (CNVs) and MtMSG who also have close working relations with technical nutrition facility staff and supervisor. The project shall also endeavor to provide caregivers messages on infant and young child feeding practices, Mother-to-Mother Support Group (MtMSG) session for better information dissemination to the caregivers in the project area. Referral of malnourished children with severely complicated cases will be supported. Capacity building of nutrition staff on IMAM/IYCF services, infant young child feeding best practices (IYCF), PSEA /GBV will be conducted. However, WASDA will ensure to undertake Nutrition activities and will refer and coordinate any other health service needs with the cluster partners providing health services on the same target locations. All under 5 children will be screened for malnutrition and any child whose screening result shows SAM will be admitted into the OTP while those with MAM will be referred to nearest partner with MAM supplies or WFP partner with nutrition FLA. the SAM complicated cases will be referred to the Kismayo Hospital stabilization centers for proper medical treatment, malnourished Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) will be referred to the cluster partners with TSFP program for treatment, on the same note the mothers, fathers and any guardian visiting WASDA nutrition sites will be provided messages on IYCF-E and shall be integrated with hygiene promotions messages such as hand washing practices. To ensure proper services delivery at the target locations, WASDA will establish 2 static facility xxx at Suban Salama village and 1 mobile team who will target and provide the outreach nutrition services at Koron-uusle,  Suban Salama and Turqata villages  providing mobile OTP/IYCF-E  and MAM screening and referrals from the communities affected by the climatic shocks. WASDA will coordinate with other partners in the area for referrals of health services avoiding services duplication and with MAM programs for complementarity. WASDA with its technical team will integrate surveillance and emergency preparedness in the program 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. WASDA will conduct IYCF promotion sessions on quarterly basis . Finally, WASDA will coordinate with Nutrition clusters and support 3 joint monitoring visits during the project period to enable achieve maximum impact to beneficiaries in the targeted project location.WASDA has supples PD with Unicef therefore ,Supplies will not be a problem.lt/pgt