Integrated Emergency Health Nutrition and WASH Response  Project in Taleex of Sool Region and Buuhodle District of Togdheer Region The project aims to address the humanitarian challenges of a classified hard to reach populations in Taleex and Buhoodle districts that are seriously affected by drought-related illness such as AWD/Cholera amp measles and malnutrition-related  complications. This will be achieved through the establishment of six integrated emergency response outreach teams that consist medical doctor as team leader, Registered Nurses, Midwife, CHW, and WASH Officer that have the necessary skills to provide integrated lifesaving Nutrition/health/WASH and nutrition outreach services. The project will ensure increased access to integrated lifesaving health, WASH, and nutrition services for women, children, youth, and men along with the most vulnerable pregnant and lactating women, elderly and persons with disabilities and will complement the ongoing services. In the nutrition component, the IERTs will be recruited and trained on skills to implement IMAM approach with the purpose of early detection and treatment of U5 boys and girls with moderate and severe acute malnutrition. Thereafter, the IERTs will screen, identify, and treat children with moderate and severe acute malnutrition and refer complicated cases to the nearest TSFP service center. The pregnant/lactating women will receive multiple micro-nutrient supplementation, while benefitting Infant Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counseling services. Breastfeeding promotion is provided throughout the course of the project. In the health services, outreach teams will provide a lifesaving health services to villagers in the remote districts. Such health services include Safe Motherhood services amp treating people with common health problems. Those with AWD/Cholera, measles, pneumonia through case management, serious cases will be referred to the nearest HF for further treatment. In the project WASH component, The public Health Officer in collaboration with WASH officer (ERT) will organise and train one community/village based WASH promoter one per village for 48 villages for five days of gender balanced, in order to provide skills to improve the overall village hygiene amp sanitation conditions undertaking hygiene and sanitation promotion awareness sessions, demonstrate House hold water treatment, mobilise villagers to carry out cleaning campaigns, undertake house-to-house visits and improve sanitation and optimal hygiene practices.
The WASH Officer (IERT), in collaboration with the trained Village based WASH promoter will rapidly assess hygiene and sanitation conditions of each village, through a transit walk, to inspect village drinking water sources for possibility of water contamination, Prevalence of Open Defecation (OD) practice, excreta and solid waste disposal practices in each village. Based on the findings, they will organise an intense sanitation amp hygiene awareness promotion sessions by highlighting the relationship acute water diarrhea and poor hygiene practices. Also, the Public Health Officer in collaboration WASH Officer (IERT) and Village Bases WASH promoter will organise household-based water treatment sessions and the use of aqua tabs, which vividly is explained links between unsafe drinking water and water-borne diseases, particularly AWD/Cholera. This will be enriched with culturally appropriate and effective IEC materials. The team will also sanitation kits to caretakers in community MCHs, health centers/CTCs and district hospitals. Furthermore, HEAL management has discussed with UNICEF, especially, the health amp nutrition section for the project coordination amp its supplies and made the commitment to provide the project supplies including nutrition amp EPI supplies. HEAL will work with WASH/Health/Nutrition Cluster coordination and Line-Ministries particularly the MOH for coordination and support of the Response. The project aims to reach 34,289 beneficiaries comprising of women (8179), boys(10451), girls (10041) and Men(5500).