Health and Nutrition

The main Objectives of the Health sector are: 
  • Improve availability of and access to health care services for IDPs and most vulnerable host communities, with a special focus on vulnerable groups such as women and children, through mobile clinics or strengthening of existing services, as well as through the promotion of health-seeking behavior.
  • Improve quality of health care and treatment, with special focus on health infrastructure (physical equipment and supplies, including post exposure prophylaxis [PEP] kits, etc.) and human resource capacity.
  • Improve health information management system to ensure availability of reliable data on the health status of the population.
  • Ensure availability of health education material on prevention of targeted diseases (malaria, TB, AWD, measles).

Nutrition program

  • The overall objective of Nutrition program is to lower the incidence of malnutrition, avert excess mortality due to malnutrition and promote better nutritional status among populations in the affected areas.
  • Initiate and facilitate intensive SFPs, including community-based nutrition actions, to the access of nutritionally vulnerable populations to emergency nutrition response.
  • Promote appropriate infant and young child feeding practices.