Mali - Health and Nutrition Assistance - Médecins du Monde Appeal 2014

March 2014 – Some 3.3 million people in Mali do not have access to sufficient safe and nutritious food. Unrest and conflict in the north have displaced 472 000 people including 171 000 who have fled to neighbouring countries to escape the violence. Fighting banditry and land-mine contamination restrict the access for relief agencies to only some areas where basic services such as medical care and water and sanitation services are gradually resuming. Refugees internally displaced persons and host communities are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance including protection shelter food nutrition and livelihoods assistance as well as access to clean water health and sanitation services. With DFATD’s support Médecins du Monde is providing emergency health care and nutrition services to up to 365 000 vulnerable people in the Kidal and Gao regions. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitation of health centres including the provision of medical equipment and medicines; (2) provision of health care; and (3) screening and treatment of malnutrition.

The expected immediate outcomes for this project include: 1) improved access to primary and secondary emergency healthcare; and 2) emergency nutrition assistance for children under five and pregnant and lactating women. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.