SQUEAC Report, Helmand Province (Laskargah, Nad-Ali and Nawa-e-Barakzaye Districts), (ACTD)

Afghanistan Centre for Training and Development (ACTD) with support from ACF International conducted a SQUEAC (Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage) assessment in three districts of Helmand province namely: Lashkargah, Nad-Ali and Nawa-e-Barakzaye, Afghanistan from 5th – 28th May 2015. The assessment was intended to provide reliable coverage estimation for the SAM treatment programme, to gather information on barriers and boosters to access and to develop recommendations to improve coverage for SAM services. The assessment estimated an overall coverage of 34.9% (CI 95%: 26.3% to 44.5%) using the single coverage estimator.

The assessment points to 3 systems in the BPHS that are currently working at sub-optimal levels, namely, community mobilisation, OTP treatment services and provision of treatment commodity. The main problems across systems are under human resourcing (undefined or dual role of actors1), training, supervision and reporting of all the actors involved in the nutrition programme, at the community level as well as at the clinic level.