Save the Children Canada

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April 2025 – Conflict, displacement and natural disasters disrupt food systems, leading to shortages and increased prices and, consequently, increased malnutrition and related issues. In protracted crises around the world, children face acute malnutrition due to ongoing violence and instability. Approximately 30 million children are malnourished in conflict zones, with over 10 million suffering from severe acute malnutrition. With Global Affairs Canada (GAC) support, Save the Children Canada (SCC) helps provide lifesaving assistance to address the urgent nutrition and protection needs of crisis-affected people in humanitarian contexts across the globe for 3 years. This project focuses on improving the nutritional status of vulnerable populations and enhancing the protective environment so that risks of violence are mitigated, through delivering emergency nutrition and complementary health and water, sanitation and hygiene services in approximately 8-12 countries each year. Project activities include: (1) providing emergency nutrition services for girls and boys under 5 and pregnant and lactating women and girls. This includes Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), supplementary feeding programs, micronutrient supplementation, community outreach, and providing treatment of severe acute malnutrition; (2) providing emergency infant and young child feeding services for parents and caregivers of girls and boys under 5; (3) providing health services for girls and boys under the age of 5, and women of reproductive age; (4) providing community and facility-based health and water and sanitation services; and (5) providing survivor-centered protection services to at risk groups, including referral, case management, psychological first aid (PFA), care for child survivors, and tailored psychosocial support (PSS).