Life-saving Nutrition Interventions for Girls and Boys with Severe Acute Malnutrition and Pregnant and Lactating Women in High-risk municipalities of Central Mindanao

This project aims to support the government and partners in addressing prevailing humanitarian needs to reduce malnutrition-related deaths in children in priority areas through: 1) provision of life-saving therapeutic feeding services and supplies for girls and boys under-5 with severe acute malnutrition, 2) protection and promotion of life-saving breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding practices, 3) capacity enhancement of government duty-bearers for delivery of such services, 4) enhancement of existing mechanisms for timely identification of the most nutritionally vulnerable, and 5) continued provision of technical, coordination, and emergency supply/logistics support to preparedness and response of the Mindanao Nutrition Cluster led by the Ministry of Health.