Providing lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition services for vulnerable population groups with attention to children and women with special needs in NW Syria This project aims to continue and increase the accessibility to essential life-saving curative and preventative nutrition services for all age and sex groups boys, girls, pregnant and lactating women and other caregivers (other women, and men) with attention to people with special needs without any sexual discrimination, among IDPs and host communities, in NW Syria.
Where the project will provide nutrition services for 28800 PLWs and 60768 children under five years (80569 IDPs and 8999 HCs) (1800 PWDs).
Through this project, SDI is going to:
Scale-up and continue the integrated mother and child-centered nutrition life-saving interventions
Scale-up and continue supporting the optimal infant feeding and caring practices in an emergency, optimal maternal nutrition, and micronutrient interventions.
Fill the current service gaps in high needs and remote locations through providing emergency integrated health, nutrition, WASH, and child protection rapid services through Rapid Response teams (RRT).
Continue and strengthen the existing program for managing acute malnutrition among children under five and PLWs. 
The scope of interventions will include:
1st:Scaling up integrated nutrition response support through 7 Rapid Response teams which will be dispatched to the areas of high IDP flow (2 in Afrin subdistrict in Aleppo governorate, 1 in Marret Tamisrin, 3 in dana, and 1 in Salqin in Idleb governorate), to provide the following activities: 
Screening 50400 children 6-59 months, and 24192 PLWs, referral and follow up who are malnourished.
Provide emergency IYCF counseling for 7750 caregivers including PLWs. 
Disseminating messages on IYCF-E recommended feeding practices, for 37000 caregivers including PLWs. 
Distributing micronutrients for preventing anemia and malnutrition among 25000 children and PLWs.
Screen, referral CU5 and PLWs with dangers signs and Medical problems 
Support hygiene promotion and rising WASH awareness by providing Key messages to prevent the risk of COVID 19 transmission and other infections. 
Identify visual signs of abuse/violence against childU5/PLWs during Nutrition screening.
2nd: Continue functioning of the OTP-SFP services in two fixed CMAM centers in Afrin and Salqin subdistricts. 
Nutrition status and anthropometric measurements of 14976 children under five and PLW are regularly screened, recorded, reported, and required program actions are taken, treatment 90 children under five with SAM without medical complications, treatment 605 children under five and PLWs with MAM.
3th: Capacity building of 48 frontline nutrition services providers on IYCF-E and CMAM programs in the context of COVID-19.
As a part to COVID 19 response, SDI is going to apply adjustments of the nutrition activities to mitigate the risk of infection while ensuring continuity of life-saving nutrition services, where SDI is going to integrate key messages on hygiene and COVID-19 symptoms, and (IPC) measures, implement a simplified protocol for the treatment of acute malnutrition, use a separate MUAC tape for each child and PLW, use MUAC and/or edema only for admission and discharge, reduce the frequency of follow-up visits to 1 every 4 weeks, distribute micronutrients for two months in advance if available, screen and isolate, refer suspected COVID-19 cases, applying recommended IPC and triage measures, provide IYCF-E counseling, either at the appropriate distance of 2 meters apart or remotely by phone or video and disseminate IYCF-E messages use platforms such as text messages and WhatsApp videos, posters in public places. 
As well as, SDI will train the caregivers on MUAC and edema screening, referral, recognize signs of deterioration, and give them a mobile or WhatsApp number of the CHW to contact in case the child’s condition deteriorates.
SDI will receive the needed nutrition supplies for this project from UNICEF through PAC organization and from WFP.