Deployment of Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams (MHNTs) in Samangan and Daikundi Provinces CAF-OPHA deploys MHNTs to expand humanitarian access and response in underserved and hardest-to-reach locations for health and nutrition in Miamoor, Khadir, Patoo, and Sharestan districts of Daikundi and in Hazrat-e-Sultan, Khuram wa Sarbagh and Ruy-e-Duab districts of Samangan provinces to successfully achieve the project's intended objectives and target indicators. The project provides primary health care and nutrition services to all age groups mainly focusing on children under five years and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) through seven mobile health and nutrition teams (MHNTs), four in Daikundi, and three in Samangan provinces. These MHNTs will provide nutrition screening, growth monitoring, IYCF counseling to PLWs, treatment of SAM (MUAC less than 11.5 or WHZ less than -3SD) and MAM (MUAC between 11.5 and 12.5 cm or WHZ between -3SD and -2SD) cases, micronutrient supplementation, and referral of severely acute malnutrition to a comprehensive nutrition center. Also, the MHNTs provide ANC, PNC, promotion of institutional delivery, IMNCI, immunization services, and mental health and psychosocial services by the trained midwife, nurse, vaccinator, and trained psychosocial counselor in the catchment areas of each service delivery point. Simultaneously, we will further support the referral of severely ill cases from the community to the nearest health facilities. Though the MHNT encourage referred clients with severe cases to approach at their own cost in some cases the MHNT vehicle will support such emergency cases and refers severely ill patients to the nearest HFs. Also, the MHNTs will distribute the phone number of HFs ambulances available in the district through the BPHS implementer. The MHNT structure consists of a Male doctor, a nutrition counselor, a midwife, a vaccinator, and a psychosocial counselor to cover all the services provides by the MHNTs. The project management team (project officer, supervisors, and operation officer) can efficiently and transparently manage the project with the support and liaison of CAF-OPHA's management team. Required equipment, medical and non-medical supply, ambulance, IEC, and health/nutrition promotion materials will be provided to the project. Also, CAF-OPHA builds and maintains close coordination with the public health directorate of the two provinces by signing MOUs. We coordinated with MOVE and BDN for the deployment of MHNTs in the Daikundi and Samangan districts to prevent the overlaps, respectively. The scope of services at the MHNTs are based on MHNT guideline. We will rent vehicles to provide mobile services for the teams. As a cross-cutting matter in this assignment, CAF-OPHA will consider the minimum gender marker code within the proposed projects. We will ensure that gender equality and gender awareness activities are mainstreamed within the scope of the project. CAF-OPHA conducts regular supervision, monitoring, coaching, and mentoring of the MHNTs to ensure the quality of services as per the standards and project requirements. Accordingly, women, men, boys, and girls of all ages including people with disability will benefit equally from the proposed interventions. A total of 36977 individuals in the host communities of Daikundi and Samangan provinces will directly benefit from the project. This figure consists of 13421 males over five and 17477 females over five for OPD services, 1056 boys and girls under one year for vaccination, 916 caregivers of children 0-23 for IYCF, 676 children 6-59 months for SAM, 685 children 6-59 for MAM, 351 PLWs for acute malnutrition, and 2746 children 6-59 for MMNPs. One of the project's sustainability aspects is the capacity building of the local staff on health and nutrition interventions within the provinces.