Goal: To prevent malnutrition and death by ensuring access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food for crisis-affected populations.

• Increase nutrition screening and referral.
• In-patient and out-patient management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
• Management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) in a targeted supplementary feeding program (TSFP).
• Prevention of MAM in a blanket supplementary feeding program (BSFP).
• Cash or voucher programs for prevention of MAM.
• Implement IYCF (Infant and Young Child Feeding) in emergencies.
• Manage older people’s malnutrition.
• Supplementation:
  • Multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS)​
  • Iron or iron-folic acid supplementation​
  • Vitamin A supplementation and deworming
  • Zinc supplementation for diarrhoea management​
  • Iodine supplementation and salt iodization​
  • Calcium supplementation​
• Nutritional care and support of HIV-infected children.
• Nutrition surveys.
• Nutrition surveillance and information system, to inform response planning and monitoring.
• Direct program coverage evaluation.
• Provide nutrition supplies, including high-energy, nutrient-dense food items for the most vulnerable groups (pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children and adolescents).
• Train and build capacity of community health workers to deliver essential services.

Goal: To save lives by providing immediate access to food while simultaneously protecting and restoring livelihoods to build long-term resilience.

• Immediate & life-saving interventions:
  • Distribute in-kind foods/rations - direct food aid, which can include food rations, cooked meals, and food baskets.​
  • Provide cash and voucher to affected populations so they can purchase food and other essential items locally, which supports the local market, to bolster their ability to cope and give them their sense of dignity by choosing their own food from the markets.​
  • Provide special nutritious foods, supplements, and treatment for malnutrition, along with education on proper feeding practices​
  • Provide cooking fuel and energy to ensure food can be safely accessed and prepared. ​​
• Livelihoods and Resilience building interventions​:
  • Provide inputs like seeds, tools, and veterinary care to help restore crop production and livestock (herders and fishers) management.​​
  • Offer cash, training, and inputs to local traders to help re-establish and strengthen market systems.​​
  • Provide training in areas like entrepreneurship or climate-smart farming techniques to create new income opportunities and build long-term resilience. ​
  • Support self-employment, entrepreneurship, and other income-generating activities to reduce dependence on aid.​​​
  • Support bakeries and community kitchens​​
• Preparedness and other support:
  • Anticipatory actions: Implement pre-arranged actions based on forecasts to mitigate the effects of impending disasters​
  • Capacity strengthening: Train local actors and government agencies to improve their ability to manage and implement food security programs.​​
  • Food and nutrition monitoring: Continuously assess food security and nutritional status to inform response planning and ensure assistance is timely and appropriate.​​

Goal: To ensure needs-based planning and results-based management of programs.

• Create flexible, crisis-appropriate M&E frameworks.
• Equity-focused collection, analysis and dissemination of disaggregated (age, gender, location, disability, etc.) data, using diverse methods (surveys, transect walk, community feedback), to understand/address diverse needs, risks and vulnerabilities.
• Needs assessment to address the specific needs of different groups within the affected population.
• Response planning.
• Monitoring of humanitarian situation and coverage, quality, and equity of humanitarian response, to inform corrective action and future planning.
• Evaluation – used for organizational learning, accountability and performance improvement. This includes after-action review, lessons learnt exercises, operational peer reviews, etc.
• Establish mechanisms to report on progress and impact to ensure accountability to affected populations and donors.
• Independent assessment and evaluation of impact and coverage (SQUEC) of program interventions (4W mapping, baseline studies, evaluation of humanitarian support, coverage, outcome and impacts, etc.).
• Program monitoring and supervision of all elements of the Emergency Management Cycle (EMC), to ensure quality standard service delivery, and timely corrective measures.
• Information management – gather, analyze and share data and information (on the locations of affected people, their urgent needs, and who is best placed to assist them) required for advocacy, coordination and decision-making, as well as to inform a rapid, effective, principled and timely humanitarian response.
• Strengthening the links between humanitarian action and development work (nexus approach) before, during and after emergencies (durable solutions).
• Drafting of donor funding proposals and reports for resource mobilization to support program implementation and scale-up.