Community nutrition promoter-1

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Community outreach/mobilization is one of the four Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) components. Health extension workers conduct community screening for early case finding, give basic nutritional advice to mothers, deliver IYCF-E services, and provide patient follow-up for defaulters and encourage them to rejoin the program. Community mobilization also includes sensitization of the population to promote understanding of therapeutic program objectives and methods. Moreover, this is a basic platform to address IYCF-C activities. Likewise, Community Nutrition Promotors (CNP’s) is responsible to ensure the implementation of nutritional activities in respective woredas in close coordination and collaboration with Health development armies and health extension workers at community level.

• Ensure the timely and proper implementation community level Nutrition Activities in close coordination with community structures
• Beneficiaries are targeted and linked to TFP program in regular ways
• Facilitate Nutritional screening activities in close coordination with WDAs and HEWs Caretakers and PLW sensitized on family MUAC to screen TFP targets
• Implement and provide technical support for TFP on (IDPs), and mobilization of community, and nutritional screening for both host & IDPs Nutrition management activities are implemented as per protocol
• Conduct regular cooking demonstration and mass awareness creation sessions HPs received support