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Titre : Lifesaving Emergency Nutrition and Protection Response for most vulnerable Afar conflict affected people

The project objective is twofold : 1) Improved access to nutrition services aimed at preventing, identifying, and treating severe and moderate acute malnutrition among under 5-year-old children and pregnant & lactating women (PLW) ; 2) Improved prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in crisis affected communities.

Pays : Ethiopie
Localisation : Afar Region, Zone two, Afdera, Kori, and Megale districts.

Partenaire (s) : CARE Österreich, Verein für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und humanitäre Hilfe

Période d’exécution : Project start : 15.08.2021 // End : 30.11.2022

Contexte
The Afar Region is facing complex humanitarian emergency following the invasion of most woredas of the region by the TPLF forces. Renewed armed clashes across Zone 2 of Afar region have resulted in thousands of people displaced since mid-December 2021 among them many women, girls and children who are particularly at risk for sexual exploitation and abuse and are exposed to negative coping mechanisms such as child labor, transactional sex, and harmful practices. According to regional authorities, 300,000 people were recently displaced. Some of those displaced are in remote areas, with little access to emergency assistance, while an unclear number are in collective sites in Arefda, Erebti, Gube, and Urukdi town in Zone-2 (OCHA Jan.2022). Children and Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) are considered to be most at risk for malnutrition and highly likely to become wasted. In Afar, an estimated 80,000 children under five years old and PLW need malnutrition preventative and treatment interventions (OCHA Feb 2022). The report also indicated that, only 22% of the 414 facilities available in the region are currently functional. This severely affects people’s access to health services and raised the need for humanitarian response.

Objectif
The project objective is twofold : 1) Improved access to nutrition services aimed at preventing, identifying and treating severe and moderate acute malnutrition among under 5-year-old children and pregnant & lactating women (PLW) ; 2) Improved prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in crisis affected communities.

Groupe cible/ Beneficiaires
Recipients of the project will include individuals from households of both IDP and host communities residing in the two target districts. A total of 17,339 individuals (13,488F, 3,851M) will directly benefit from the project : • 1,282 children (682F, 600M) treated for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) ; • 4,707 children <5 (2,500F, 2,207M) and 2,607 PLW treated for moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) ; • 21 Outpatient Therapeutic Programs (OTP) sites and 4 stabilization centres (SC) strengthened to provide emergency nutrition and SGBV services ; • 50 (30F, 20M) health workers - in OTP & SC - will receive on job and formal training on management of acute malnutrition ; • 9,740 individuals (8,716 F, 1,024M) provided with child nutrition and hygiene education including key messages on COVID-19 prevention ; • 110 individuals (60 community members and 50 health workers) will be trained on Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and SGBV ; • 12 individuals (Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) ; nurses and Health Extension Workers) will be trained on clinical management of rape (CMR) ; • 6,324 women and girls will receive dignity kits ; • 50 (Women/Girls) post violence victims provided with CMR services ; • 9,740 individuals (8,716F, 1,024M) reached by SGBV response services information ;

The family members of the targeted individuals will indirectly benefit from the project Implementing Partners of the Applicant : CARE International in Ethiopia.

Financement : AKF
Budget  : € 500.000,00

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