Integrated emergency Health and Nutrition intervention in Lascaanood and Odaweine Districts of Sool and Togdheer Regions Decades of various natural and manmade crisis has adversely impacted the lives of increasing millions in Somalia, climate change either as drought or flooding being the major driver on one side and COVID 19 pandemic on the other, thus calling to meet the different needs of more than 5 million persons through scaling up comprehensive and urgent humanitarian response. 
This 7 month and one day Integrated emergency Health and Nutrition intervention is aimed to respond to the humanitarian needs of 86,207 indirect and 25,000 direct beneficiaries who are drought affected most at risk groups of persons living in uncovered and hard to reach areas of Laascaanood and Odaweine Districts of Sool and Togdheer Regions.
The COVID-19 pandemic, Desert Locusts and conflict continue to be some of the key factors, contributing to vulnerability and predisposing factors for malnutrition in the Sool and Togdheer Regions. 
The intervention will support health facilities (12 fixed HFs/MCHs, 1 SC and 4 Mobile Teams and 7 Primary Health Units (PHUs) in Oodweine and 5 PHCU in Laas Caanod and Oodweyne districts of Sool and Togdheer Region. Capacities of health staff at regional, district and village level on health and nutrition related topics will be enhanced. The project will reactivate 5 MCHs in Laascaanod district namely Tukoraq. Boocane, Shululux, Dharkayngeeye, and Daami MCHs, by supporting and providing supplies and equipment necessary for the delivery of an essential emergency Health and nutrition services. As well as onother 7 Health centres in rural Oodweyne including Harasheikh, Laanmulaaxo, Cali Faarax, Yicib Yabooh, Maxamud Cabane, Dabagorayaale and Gudubi MCHs/HCs.   
At the community level, social mobilisers will be mobilize communities, screen and detect early for the sick and malnourished children, women and men in coordination with the static and Mobile Teams services and support immunization through mobiles. Referral of SAM children with medical complication to SC Oodweyne and Laascaanood will be done. 
UNOCHA will support the project through 2nd SHF 2022 Reserve Allocation round. UNICEF and MoHD, are some of HEAL main partners and committed to provide relevant project supplies mainly essential health, nutrition and EPI supplies. HEAL will work with all relevant project Clusters and Line-Ministries particularly MOH to ensure effective coordination and efficient project services
	Components of this emergency program intervention will include: 
 Provision of lifesaving primary health care services through fixed health facilities and mobile teams including PHC (EPHS) clinical care, child health care, communicable disease treatment including cholera treatment.
 Provision of stabilization centre in Oodweyne Hospital (inpatient therapeutic centre) for the treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition with medical complications.
 Provision of sexual and reproductive health services including SGBV.
 Provision of outpatient therapeutic programme at fixed health facilities and mobile/outreach for the treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition.
 Provision of essential medicines and supplies.
The project duration or lifespan is 6 months starting from the day irs signed