Scale up of nutrition intervention for children under 5 affected by severe acute malnutrition  in Magumeri LGA, Borno State, Nigeria Project Allocation :	8 + 3 Allocation	Allocation Type Category :	
Project Budget in US$ :	220,000	Planned project duration :	8 Months
Planned Start Date :	01/12/2019	Planned End Date :	31/07/2020
Actual Start Date:	01/12/2019	Actual End Date:	31/07/2020
Project Summary:	This project aims at strengthening the provision of a stabilization center care for children under-5 in Magumeri LGA, Borno State in North Eastern Nigeria. This action intends to achieve this through the scale up of existing stabilization center capacity and strengthening the access to the already existing OTPs being run by INTERSOS.

Since July 2017, INTERSOS has been implementing nutrition services in seven wards in Magumeri LGA at the INTERSOS OTPs and SC services from 2018. INTERSOS has been supporting the State Ministry of Health through the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, as well as the Hospitals Management Board to provide integrated life-saving health and nutrition services to children U5, PLWs and other categories of vulnerable individuals in various priority and hard-to-reach areas as Magumeri, Bama, Dikwa and Ngala LGAs. 

The Nutrition Sector has identified the INTERSOS SC in Magumeri as strategic for the treatment of SAM cases with medical complications from Magumeri, and influx of cases from Gubio and Nganzai LGAs. INTERSOS intends to increase the bed capacity of the SC in Magumeri, while maintaining the stabilization center operations by regular maintenance of the structure and existing equipment, running of daily 24/7 activities ( if security allows), additional staffing engaging in active case finding and case management in collaboration with its linked project as well as engage in supporting the improvement of the general nutrition status in the area through awareness and promotion of standard IYCF and good hygiene practices to the SC beneficiaries and the community. The SC services will be linked to both OTP and MAM treatment available in Magumeri LGA.

INTERSOS intends to scale-up its OTP activities by establishing 3 outreaches team to cover the newly accessible areas and hard-to-reach areas within Gagigana ,Arrdoran and Ngamma wards. 

The GBV risks would be mitigated by ensuring indiscriminate service provision, the availability of gender-sensitive staffing, continuous community engagement especially with vulnerable group populations. 

The following sub-themes will be supported by the project:
-Provision of 24/7 SC  and OTP services to children U5 with severe acute malnutrition.
-Continuous counselling and education for mothers in the SC and the OTPs concerning standard IYCF practices
-GBV risk mitigation through ensuring gender equality in staffing, continuous community engagement linkages with community structures for vulnerable groups and GBV information sharing at the facility level
-Setup of 3 mobile OTP teams to conduct outreaches in hard to reach village surrounding existing OTPs in and MagumerI LGA within Gagigana ,Arrdoran and Ngamma wards.
-Community awareness and mobilization on nutrition core concerns, IYCF good practices, hygiene practices, active case-finding and referral of children living in hard to reach villages surrounding INTERSOS OTPs in Magumeri complementing the ongoing nutrition interventions.