This project aims to provide an emergency nutrition response in 9 localities in the Bambari Health District (Bambari and Ippy sub- prefectures). Nutritional surveys based on the SMART methodology in 2019 revealed a worrying nutritional situation in the Ouaka Prefecture, with a Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate estimated at 13.2%. This project will be implemented in 3 health areas in the Bambari and Ippy sub-prefectures:

• Seko health area: Seko CS and Tagbara health post;
• Ippy health area: HS d'Ippy, PS Akpa, PS Zoubingui, PS Badje-Lokoto and PS Ndakara (Ndassima axis);
• Lafolo health area: PS Lafolo and PS Lambla (on the Ippy-Bria axis).

The population in these areas has limited access to basic social services and economic activity is virtually at a standstill.   The final evaluation of the project, implemented by COHEB from 15 August 2019 to 15 February 2020, also recommended that the care of malnourished children should not be interrupted, as this could lead to a deterioration in the nutritional status of these children, on the one hand, and to a lack of ownership of the project's achievements by local government staff, on the other. The implementation of this project will certainly meet the nutritional needs of children as well as pregnant and breast-feeding women, enabling them to have adequate access to basic health services. COHEB will also use a mobile clinic strategy to bring healthcare closer to communities in remote areas and areas with difficult access. With this funding, COHEB will also rehabilitate the UNT at the Ippy Secondary Hospital, as recommended by the Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) survey, so that the facility can meet standards.