Reaching the Unreachable Innovations in the use of mobile acute malnutrition treatment services to reach the last mile in disaster-prone and conflict-affected areas
The webinar – “Reaching the Unreachable” – was organized by the Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance on September 20th 2023, with the goal of highlighting the experience of three INGO country programs in extending treatment for child wasting to the last mile through the use of mobile treatment teams in Pakistan, Somalia and Ethiopia.
20th September 2023
UNICEF, IRC, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children
USAID
This webinar allowed its audience to hear specific examples from Pakistan, Somalia and Ethiopia, where implementing partners have deployed innovative means of ‘Reaching the Unreachable’ through mobile child wasting treatment delivery. Panellists from Action Against Hunger, Save the Children and the IRC explained that such approaches are multifaceted and must be adapted in context-specific ways; however, all three country-level experiences underscored the importance of being flexible and adaptable when circumstances change as well as working in coordination with local communities and authorities to build capacity and ownership.
A recording of the full webinar, including translation into English, Spanish, French and Arabic is available on the GNC Technical Alliance website here.