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Somalia Nutrition Cluster SOMALIA NUTRITION CLUSTER Minutes of the National Nutrition Cluster Meeting Monday, 3rd November 2014, 10:20 am to 12:30 am MoH Meeting hall Afgooye Road, Wadajir Mogadishu, Somalia 1. Welcome and Introductions: The meeting chaired by Dr Hufane and Abdullahi Nur ,commenced with Holly Quran prayer followed by round the table introductions introduction of participants. Abdullahi Nur then introduced the meeting agenda and called for additional agenda items. 2. Review and endorsement of the last cluster meeting minutes and follow up on the action points: The review of last meeting’s minutes - 6th of October 2014 was done and approved as a correct record of issues discussed. Action points were followed up accordingly; see the status on page 8 of the minutes. Banadir Hospital: a technical team of three people has been formed to assess the Stabilization Centre’s (SC) situation. The team will conduct its first meeting in the course of the week. Suggestions: Members felt it would be important to include cluster as part the technical team assessing the Stabilization Centre. ACF was urged to take over the entire paediatric ward rather than only supporting the stabilization centre however, it was made known that the agency’s mandate doesn’t allow that. 3. Key Agency/Organization program highlights Trocaire; due to shortage of water and persistence drought, nutrition situation has been deteriorating in Gedo region. Trocaire has opened additional SC in Dolow district of Gedo region as part of humanitarian intervention. The agency also reported on flooding in some areas in Gedo has led to inaccessibility and increasing of suspected malnutrtion cases. WOCCA; has been implementing OTP activities for seven months, without an active PCA hence the agency has been talking care of the running costs. Due to funding shortage, the agency can only sustain the Balad OTP till the end of November 2014 unless it obtains a PCA. CISP; planning to start up two emergency OTP programs in the outskirts of Yaaqshid and Karan districts of Banadir region. Nutrition Cluster Coordination UNICEF Somalia Support Centre (USSC) Tel: +254-20-7628400 United Nations, Block Q, Nairobi, Kenya Fax: +254-20-7623989 1 http://somalia.humanitarianresponse.info/clusters/nutrition For more information, contact Qutab Alam, IM Specialist: [email protected] Page Page Or Abdullahi Nur Aden, Nutrition Cluster Coordination Assistant [email protected] SOMALIA NUTRITION CLUSTER CWW; intends to start an emergency OTP to cover needs of the IDPs in Rajo and Jabuti in Wadajir of Banadir region. SARD; received OTP supplies from UNICEF in Mid-October, and commenced screening activities in Dodaale and Bulo-Fulay in Buurhakaba district hence distribution should be conducted by following week. SAACID; due to expiry of UNICEF PCA, SAACID is going to hang on to 7 of their 9 OTP sites and the other 2 will be permanently closed. As from the following week, children currently in the programme will be given two week’s ration till the PCA is signed. The organization has already started referring SAM children to the closest OTP sites; Warta-nabada and Hawlwadag. Around 238 beneficiaries were referred to CPD OTP site - Howlwadag (operating in Hodan) but SACID was advised to make referrals to IRC (EPHS implementing agency in Howlwadag) once they start the programme. Discussions between UNICEF and SAACID on PCA for 7 sites renewal is underway. IRC; planned to start OTP program officially on the following week as part of the EPHS program in Howlwadag and urged SAACID to make referrals. Nutrition supplies are in place and training of staff on IMAM is underway. MGV; absence of TSFP centres often result to relapses and have been burden to the OTPs in west Hiraan that Hiraan consortium run. HDO; there is a nutrition gap in the six areas (Herale and Balanbale) HDO used to work because the OTP PCA has expired, however a renewal has been requested. Comments: Looking at Hawlwadag district geographically, some partners felt that one OTP cannot properly cover the need unless IRC is going to create mobile team. Non-EPHS partners: Partners implementing Nutrition non-EPHS programmes in Banadir region are worried on the transition phase and how a partner with little experience in Nutrition programming will handle the work. Besides, rumors that non-EPHS partners will vacate Banadir region was also being deliberated in the meeting and the cluster requested Mr. Abdulhamid –the director of planning for the MoH to give clarification on the issue. The director informed partners getting funds via other mechanisms (not funded through JHNP) will go on as long as Banadir has the highest caseload of Malnutrition. Stabilization Centers in public owned buildings will need to either integrate with public constructions, totally move out or stop. 4. The status of newly recovered areas in South Central Zones: Accessibility of the newly recovered districts is major problem. In Gedo region, 2 districts are recently recovered where the government is planning an assessment mission. Eladow to Nutrition Cluster Coordination UNICEF Somalia Support Centre (USSC) Tel: +254-20-7628400 United Nations, Block Q, Nairobi, Kenya Fax: +254-20-7623989 2 http://somalia.humanitarianresponse.info/clusters/nutrition For more information, contact Qutab Alam, IM Specialist: [email protected] Page Page Or Abdullahi Nur Aden, Nutrition Cluster Coordination Assistant [email protected] SOMALIA NUTRITION CLUSTER Mungai of Marka coastal areas are fully accessible. These areas are hosting huge IDPs from other conflict prone areas. 5. Nutrition Information Management: Owing to several other presentations including government priority deliberations, the nutrition cluster was not be able to make the presentation thus requested partners to go through in their own time and get back to the coordination team in case of any concerns . Action point: Abdullahi to share nutrition information presentation with the nutrition cluster partners. 6. Update on Floods Situation: The recent floods in the country affected many regions including middle Juba, Hiraan and Middle Shabelle. 6 villages in Jamame, 15 villages in Jilib and 17 villages in Bu’ale were among the affected districts in Middle Juba. Displacement, destruction of crops and diseases outbreak were major impacts assessed. Nutrition services lack in these areas due inaccessibility. Beletweyne is the worst hit by floods in Hiraan region. The major problems reported were malaria, suspected measles cases thus deteriorating nutrition situation in general. In Middle Shabelle, 7 breakages are still oozing water causing displacement, transportation problems and destruction of crops. WOCCA conducted assessment in the flood affected areas to share with the relevant stakeholders. Action point: To share flood updates conducted by WOCCA with the nutrition cluster members. 7. Presentation on Nutrition Quality Improvement Initiative: In coordination with the ministry of the health of the Federal Government of Somalia and cluster partners, UNICEF Somalia is working on an online dashboard that will present analyses of indicators across all components of the Basic Nutrition Services Package within a bottleneck analysis framework. The dashboard will thus not only ensure decentralized access to programme information, but also analysis, prioritization and monitoring of bottlenecks and their reduction. It is envisioned that this dashboard will thus lead to more efficient identification of gaps and their resolution at the district and site level, leading to enhanced quality of programmes. Any comments, queries or suggestions regarding the presentation that Mahad made can be shared with Shalini Guduri @ [email protected]. Nutrition Cluster Coordination UNICEF Somalia Support Centre (USSC) Tel: +254-20-7628400 United Nations, Block Q, Nairobi, Kenya Fax: +254-20-7623989 3 http://somalia.humanitarianresponse.info/clusters/nutrition For more information, contact Qutab Alam, IM Specialist: [email protected] Page Page Or Abdullahi Nur Aden, Nutrition Cluster Coordination Assistant [email protected] SOMALIA NUTRITION CLUSTER 8. Nutrition Cluster Coordination Update: Update on the ongoing Strategic response plan (SRP) 2015 process: The cluster review committee (CRC) met to review all the projects that were submitted by cluster partners on 23rd October 2014. No new project was accepted for consideration in CAP 2015 - only projects that were approved for 2014 were recreated in the online project system (OPS). Upon review, 6 projects were rejected as they did not meet the basic criteria of being part of the cluster rationalization plan and/or were submitted after the deadline and/or was not approved for 2014 SRP. One project was submitted twice by the same partner while one of the partners indicated that they are no longer interested in implementing nutrition interventions. The remaining 32 projects were reviewed, scored and comments were provided back to partners to review, revise and resubmit into the system. All the 32 projects were recommended for consolidated appeal process (CAP) 2015. On Friday 31st October 2014, the cluster successfully defended the 32 projects, all of which have been submitted for Humanitarian Coordinator‘s final endorsement. FSNAU post Deyr 2014/2015 nutrition assessment plan: Currently conducting the survey in Mogadishu urban and IDPs. And will kick off the Shabelles one in mid-November, partners in those regions were encouraged to support FSNAU with the survey. 9. MoH Updates: Nutrition Mapping Forms were distributed
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