Integrated Health, Nutrition, WASH, Food Security and Education interventions to host communities  and IDP’s affected by drought and AWD outbreak in Burao Region, Somaliland Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL): The proposed project seeks to restore immediate food access among crisis and emergency affected communities in villages under Burao region of Somaliland. The project seeks to improve food access by increasing household purchasing power through unconditional and conditional cash assistance for 3 months. The cash transfer will prioritize households with malnourished children Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) identified under existing nutrition interventions in the targeted area, accompanied by nutrition sensitization around household dietary diversity and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. This project will also support rehabilitation of degraded communal grazing lands which has been recently affected by severe droughts resulting in the degeneration of the pasture fields and reduction of the available pasture grass seeds. This will be achieved through a conditional cash transfer (cash for work) approach with the aim of increasing immediate access to food and basic necessities of drought-affected communities at the same time create condition for livelihood recovery and sustainability in the targeted areas.
HEALTH: WV Somalia will support 6 rural health centers and 2 mobile medical units (MMU) with the aim to deliver an integrated package of promotive, preventive and curative maternal, newborn and child health services through facility-based and community-based care. Specifically, general consultations and basic, life-saving treatment for those suffer from common diseases such as Acute Watery Diarrhea(AWD)/ Cholera, malaria, respiratory tract infections Routine immunization for children under the age of five will also be covered to prevent children mortality. The target health centers are Gaba Gabo, Nasiye, Ali ciise, Shanshacade, Mohamed Ugaas, Candha dhaxe Health centers all in Burao district.
NUTRITION: The proposed nutrition activities will be integrated with the health,  FSL  and Education interventions with an aim to address the underlying causes of high levels malnutrition as well as to enable early identification for treatment in rural areas of Burao district. This program will establish a strong community network through competent community nutrition volunteers for early detection and referral of children and pregnant and lactating mothers with acute malnutrition. In addition to the treatment of acute malnutrition, the project will be promoting positive infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practice by providing IYCF promotion and counselling. 
WASH: WV is intending to reduce the vulnerability of the drought affected communities and address the underlying root causes of AWD/ Cholera while ensuring the retention of children in schools in Burao district through provision of life-saving basic WASH services via the schools in rural villages and IDP camps in urban areas. The proposed intervention links with WV’s ongoing emergency response interventions in Health, Nutrition and Food Security, Livelihoods currently ongoing in the same targeted IDP camps in Burao district funded by EU trust fund, all defined to provide a combination of lifesaving and resilience building support to drought affected communities in Burao. WV aims to reach 12721 beneficiaries and 3069 school children
EDUCATION: To protect children from AWD/ Cholera and any other communicable diseases, the project will target 6 schools through provision of safe water, clean sanitation facilities and hygiene promotion and health and nutrition messaging. This project targets 3069 children (1732 boys and 1337 girls)

A total of 39855 beneficiaries will be reached through this intervention (12,721 of this beneficiaries will be from the urban areas of Burao district and 27,134 from the rural areas)