SQUEAC report Akobo East County, Jonglei State (March 2016)

The CMAM program has Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) sites, Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programs (TSFP) that run in inlinewith them and one Stabilization Center (SC) in Akobo hospital. Severely acutely malnourished (SAM) children without medical complications are treated in OTP. SAM cases with medical complicates are referred to the SC for stabilization and nutritional therapy and are after which transferred to the OTP site nearest their community. Children discharged as cured from OTP are enrolled in the SFP program for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) to prevent SAM relapse.

The Semi-quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) was undertaken from 27th Feb – 13th Mar 2016 where CMAM programming is provided in Akobo East County. The SQUEAC investigation purposed to estimate the overall coverage of the OTP program and identify boosters and barriers influencing program access and coverage in Akobo East County. The coverage assessment used Semi Quantitative Evaluation of Access & Coverage (SQUEAC) methodology which is specifically designed to evaluate the coverage of selective feeding programmes and focuses on a detailed investigation of factors influencing coverage.