Saving Lives

Almanar works with displaced and refugee people and others affected by conflict to sustain their survival with dignity and safety. Perhaps most obvious in a crisis situation, saving lives refers not only to preventing mortality, but also to ensuring people’s basic rights—that individuals are recognized by law and have access to services such as nutrition, protection, capacity building and economic development in all situations.
Helping people survive with dignity is the first step to durable solutions. But conflict can recur unless its root causes are addressed. Aware that conflict has many causes, Almanar believes that communities can do a great deal to reduce inequities that are at the core of the problem.

Livelihood ; Civic Education, CBOs & Women Cooperatives

Almanar strategy towards supporting communities is to provide the resources needed to improve standard of life, livelihood and sense of well-being at present and for the future by communicating basics peace building and non-violent conflict resolution techniques, increasing knowledge of the essentials of participatory governance and accountable public decision making, increasing knowledge of principals human rights, providing communities with mobilization, planning and advocacy skills.
Drawing from its expertise in Community-Driven Reconstruction and Learning by Doing Approach, AMVO ensures that the needs of communities are at the foundation of all interventions undertaken by CSOs. CSOs are trained on participatory needs and problem identification to enable them identify and prioritize community needs in consultation with communities themselves, ensuring that the voices of the most vulnerable and marginalized are heard.

Protection /Governance and Rule of Law & Peace Building Programs

Almanar commitment to protecting and promoting rights is fundamental to our programming. Rather than offering charity to people in need, Almanar strives to help people realize their rights as entitled by law. This translates into programming that considers how aid affects social and economic conditions and the relationships between displaced and host communities. Specifically, we pursue this principle in four ways:

• - Ensuring equal access to services and programs.
• - Strengthening people’s capacity to claim and advocate for their rights.
• - Supporting the capacity of authorities to fulfill rights.
• - Accountability to the individuals and communities we serve.

With Gender Based Violence, HIV/AIDS, Environment mainstreaming

Almanar advocates for and adheres to the Minimum Standards of Gender and Protection within the targeted communities. Through our referral pathway, we ensure that individuals and their families who have experienced S/GBV, as well as youth, elderly and disabled individuals, are fully aware about their rights and how to access services. Furthermore, we prioritize the safety and accessibility of service locations, ensuring that beneficiaries are not exposed to danger or discrimination. We also prioritize the delivery of services in a manner that respects the dignity and confidentiality of the communities we serve.
Our strategies for implementing gender activities revolve around establishing peaceful, sustainable, consistent, and enforceable ground rules, and promoting a responsive and accountable governance culture through strengthening communities, with focus on women and youth, peace building, conflict resolution and coexistence, advocacy and networking capacities by organizing networking meetings, forums and conferences. We also aim to address risks and threats, while increasing community awareness and acceptance of women's rights and other socio-economic issues. Lastly, we work to enhance the income-generating capacity of marginalized women and youth through socio-economic and political development trainings.
Almanar integrate gender topics and related concerns as cross-cutting issues in all programs, particularly during networking meetings, awareness sessions and capacity building activities.

Health

Almanar Health Program aims at ensuring wellbeing of affected population (refugees from South Sudan, host community and displaced) reducing morbidity and mortality, providing preventive and basic primary health care services including disabled and old persons. The program work towards strengthening community support structures, identifying vulnerable individuals, facilitating access to medical services, developing referral pathways and increasing the awareness and capacity of the served community. Health services are provided through fixed clinics and Mobile Health Teams. Referrals to secondary and tertiary health levels facilities is based on the standard operating procedures (SOP), covering cost of transporting patients to secondary health level or tertiary health facilities in the locality. During epidemics preventive measures are carried out through orientation sessions following National Infection Prevention & Control measures as well as training and recruiting volunteers from the served community.
Accountability is ensured across the activities through the developed complaints and response mechanisms at the PHC level aimed at ensuring that the voices of the affected populations are heard. The existing community committees and community leaders/ Sultans are actively engaged at all levels including planning, management, monitoring and evaluation. Complaints handling mechanisms is already established (3 for fixed clinics and 3 for mobile clinics) to ensure that complaints are comprehensively analyzed and responded to with the beneficiaries getting feedback on a monthly basis.

Nutrition

Almanar nutrition intervention has been designed to provide integrated and high-quality curative and preventative nutrition services to vulnerable and malnourished children under the age of five and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) based on the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) protocol.
Almanar will continue providing outpatient therapeutic feeding programs (OTP) and enhance the communities' understanding of critical nutritional needs and best practices to prevent malnutrition through
- Establish/Rehabilitate/Run OTP/TSFP centers and provide needed technical and logistical support.
- Capacity building for nutrition technical staff and community volunteers.
- Screening for malnourished U5 children.
- Admission and treatment of SAM U5, MAM U5, and PLWs.
- Provision of RUTF and supplementary foods to the identified beneficiaries as per protocols.
- Referral of SAM cases with medical complications to SC or hospital will be supported
- The development of IYCF groups
- Health education and behavior change communication Educate mothers/caretakers on the proper use of the provided food and medication
- Awareness Rising Sessions (AWRs) for caregivers and community members to ensure understanding of the nutrition activities.