Integrated Nutrition and health response to drought affected  communities in Lug district Gedo region This project is an integrated response around two complimentary directorial areas of Health and Nutrition. It is intended to mitigate the physical and protection consequences of drought on populations and communities in Gedo region, in particular, Lug District. The main objective of this project is to provide integrated life-saving emergency primary health and Nutrition services to 18,200 (Nutrition: 5,500 Boys, 6,500 Girls and 5,000 PLW, for Health: 5,500 Boys, 6,500 Girls and 5,000 women, 1,200 men) affected direct beneficiaries in Luug  through the provision of four IERT teams for integrated services in  Dhuyacley ,Busley IDP/Balanbale, Taganey, Howdey, Qooney,Cusbo and Kulmiye IDP   and one health and Nutrition static facility at Taleh/Tulamarehan in Lug district . SORDES emphasis will be on maternal, neonatal and child health including emergency immunization,pyschsocial support, outpatient consultation (OPD), GBV case management and 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 and BEMONC which will be done to equip health workers with the required skills to deliver quality healthcare services, SORDES will closely coordinate with Lug  district Local MOH as well as Federal level MOH and social mobilizers, elders all involved in activities on mobilizing communities as well SORDES will capacity build the community religious, 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 SORDES IERT team in Lug target sites.

On the other hand, the nutrition component intends to achieve comprehensive  community outreach outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) and supplementary feeding program [TSFP] centers integrated with primary health care services managed by SORDES thus providing more holistic opportunity to the target beneficiaries. It shall also endeavor to provide conduct caregivers infant and young child feeding practices, IYCF 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) as well as providing multiple micronutrient , iron folic and vitamin A supplementation to both lt5children boys,girls and PLW including 15% disable group .However ,SORDES 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 ANC/PNC at the mobile clinic will be provided both NHHP/IYCF-E and shall be integrated with hygiene promotions activities such as hand washing practices 
To ensure proper services delivery at  Dhuyacley ,Busley IDP/Balanbale, Taganey, Howdey, Qooney,Cusbo and Kulmiye IDP   and one health and Nutrition static facility at Taleh/Tulamarehan in Lug district nutrition will be provided to the hard to reach areas. SORDES 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