Summary of Nutrition Program Interventions 2021

YDN effectively utilized its outstanding record of experience and resources to respond to the devastating humanitarian crisis caused by war and conflict. The responses are designed to increase access to curative and preventive nutritional services to acutely malnourished under five years children and through implementing the projects in the most affected areas across Yemen.

YDN’s experience in the provision of humanitarian aid, the management of any field difficulties, and the use of the best practices have significantly improved through the implementation of many integrated emergency projects in different areas.

In 2021, YDN comity Health and Nutrition volunteers (CHNVs) within Bani Thabyan district, Sana’a governorate. More than 3,531 individuals. These interventions are through activating and supporting community-based management for acute malnutrition (CMAM) which includes treatment and preventive services including screening for malnutrition among under-five-year children and pregnant and lactating women (PLW), treating acute malnourished children and PLW, providing children with deworming drugs, micronutrient powder, and vitamin A as prevention, providing PLWs with folic acid and iron, counseling, and education sessions for PLW on infant and young child feeding practices, home care of sick children, immunization, key WASH messages, and cholera prevention. All these services are through incapacitating and supporting the health workers in the targeted health facilities and medical mobile clinics and community health and nutrition volunteers (CHNVs) to provide services.

Participation:

  • (20) National and Sub-national Clusters meeting.
  • (4) Meetings.
  • (2) Trainings.

Activities:

  • Conducting screening and active case finding to identify and refer acute malnutrition cases to a treatment program.
  • Treating children with severe acute malnutrition without complications.
  • Cash transportation support for families with SAM cases with complications.
  • Provision of counselling on infant and young child feeding to pregnant and lactating women and caretakers.
  • Providing nutrition preventive services including deworming and micronutrient powders (MNPs).
  • Conducting awareness sessions on key nutrition messages including IYCF.

3,535 individuals of beneficiaries have benefited.

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