Save the Children Canada

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With Global Affairs Canada (GAC) support, Save the Children Canada will provide lifesaving assistance to address the urgent nutrition and protection needs of crisis-affected people across the globe for three years. This project will focus 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 15 countries each year. Country-level interventions will be implemented through a global program that will allow for a greater overall coherence and visibility of sectoral results achieved. Countries of implementation will be selected on a yearly basis and in consultation with GAC, with priority given to extreme nutrition crisis in countries experiencing protracted. At least half of the budget will be directed towards nutrition sector activities. Project activities include: (1) providing emergency nutrition services for girls and boys under 5 and pregnant and lactating women and girls, including 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/caregivers of girls and boys under 5; (3) providing health services for girls and boys under the age of five, as well as women of reproductive age; (4) providing community and /or facility-based health and water and sanitation services; (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).