The overall objective is to lower the incidence of malnutrition, avert excess mortality due to malnutrition and promote better nutritional status among under five children and pregnant lactating women (PLWs) in the crisis affected areas.
Specific Objectives:
• Initiate and facilitate intensive preventive ad promotive nutrition programmes including community-based nutrition surveillance, early case identification, treatment and referral to ensure access of nutritionally vulnerable populations to emergency nutrition response.
• Engage and empower community nutrition volunteers (CNVs) and mother to mother/father to father support groups.
• Promote nutrition sensitive programming at community level and enhance appropriate infant and young child feeding practices.