Highlights
An overall emergency Malawi food insecurity response plan has been developed and released under the leadership of the Department Of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA), with active participation from all cluster.
The overall plan is targeting 6.5 million people in 24 of the most affected districts and requires US $380 million. The appeal currently has a gap of US $313 million.
436,666 people are in need of nutritional response which includes: 77,263 Severely Acute Malnourished (SAM) children; 81,205 Moderately Acute Malnourished (MAM) children; 80,798 malnourished Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW); and 97,400 malnourished adults living with HIV and TB.
The Malawi Nutrition Cluster’s total requirements for Food Insecurity Response Plan is (US$) 29.1 million for the period of July 2016 to March 2017. Out of that the Confirmed pledges are $ 25.4 million with the Resource Gap of US $ 3.7 million.
UNICEF and Ministry of Health has conducted a consultative review of phase-I response with major stakeholders /partners . All lesson learns have been considered to be addressed and best practices to be carried forward in phase-II nutrition drought response implementation.
Mass Screenings and mobilization activities to continue in all 28 districts, Malawi nutrition cluster aims to save the lives of malnourished under-five children through early case identification and referral for treatment of moderate and severe acute malnutrition.
SMART survey report released and endorsed by the Government of Malawi and Nutrition Cluster
Nutrition in Emergencies Trainings planned in August for all districts in the country .