XM-OCHA-CBPF-ETH-18/DDA-3379/SA1/N/NGO/8992 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Arsi Zone is of 18 Zones in the Oromia Region. It is located about 178 Km Eastsouth of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Arsi is bordered on the south by Bale Zone,on the southwest by the West Arsi Zone,, on the north west by the East Shewa Zone,on the north by Afar Region and on the east by West Hararge Zone. With this project will focus on Arsi zone of two woredas which is lowland 75% and drought affected woredas of Gololcha and Shanan Kolo. Gololcha woreda Gololcha is one of the 26 Woreda in Arsi Zone of Oromia Region. It consists of 23 kebeles and the population size is 137, 582 (Woreda Health Office 2018 G.C). Gololcha apart 230 km from the capital city of the zone-Assela and 335 km from Addis Ababa the capital city of Ethiopia. Shanan kolu Woreda Shanan Kolu is one of the Woredas in Arsi zone of Oromia Region. It consists of 13 kebeles and one Kebele is considered as an urban setting and the population size is 92,978 among this 12,276 children is under five. The distance of the woreda from the capital city of the zone Arsi is around 272 km. MCMDO’s nutrition programme provides preventative and curative responses to severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM).Its Operational in thus waredas, with this project proposal MCMDO is planned to implement full CMAM program in collaboration of WFP specifically for TSF-Program. This incorporated community based management of acute malnutrition project will provide support to host communities and IDPs in underserved areas affected by the critical drought in Ethiopia, Oromia, Arsi Zone , Gololcha and Shanan Kolu woredas within this critical seasonal and overwhelming food insecurity situation. The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction in nutrition related mortality and morbidity and improves access to high-quality multi­sectoral life­saving nutrition interventions for the most vulnerable populations­ notably under five children and pregnant and lactating women (regardless of their nutritional status) .IYCF-E promotional sessions are conducted with men, women and children. This is accompanied by cooking demonstrations using low-cost, locally available, highly nutritious foods with Health and Nutrition counseling. Project beneficiaries target calculated through reviewing admission trend in similar months of the previous year and considering the current drought and food insecurity situation exacerbated in the vulnerable community group in the woredas. Due to the current critical seasonal famine gap most of the host communities are critically in search of Food Assistance and clean water supply, even if there is water rationing in most of the kebeles in the woredas . The proposed project will reach 951 of children under five years with Sever Acute Malnutrition  9176 of children age 6-59 months with Moderate Acute Malnutrition  1,758 moderately malnourished Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLWs)  2,500 women of reproductive age and men will receive maternal and child nutrition education In this project, Gender poise balance will be considered when recruiting staff for this specific project and most of the technical support for program will be provided to HEWs who are mostly female and Woreda health staff who are both male and female. Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization Tilahun Mulugeta Executive Director +251930012680 dg.mcmdo@gmail.com Fiseha Mezgebu Program Director +251930012682 fishkid27@gmail.com Nebiyu Ayalew CMAM program Coordinator +251930012684 nebiyuayalew2@gmail.com Oromia 7.50798643 38.76521270 Nutrition 183507.86 183507.86 Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization 183507.86 Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization 0 Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 1.73 Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs