Between April 2024 and March 2025, approximately 54,000 children aged 6-59 months and 9,800 pregnant or breastfeeding women (PBW) are suffering or projected to suffer acute malnutrition in the 13 refugee settlements and urban refugee populations. This corresponds to a 53 and 26 percent reduction for children and PBW, respectively, compared to the same period last year. The significant improvement is attributed to the strengthened nutrition specific and sensitive interventions among the refugees and host communities. During the projection period, the only area in IPC AMN Phase 2 (Alert) is expected to improve to IPC AMN Phase 1 (Acceptable), while the rest are expected to remain in Phase 1.

The major contibuting factors to the acute malnutrition situation include inadequate food consumption and inadequate access to water and sanitation. 

• Scale up case identification and treatment of Acute malnutrition (both SAM and MAM cases) for both children and women.
• Strengthen MIYCAN practices at both health facility and community levels.
• Strengthen the Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) within the settlements and host communities to bring health services closer to households, addressing leading child morbidities and reducing burden on health facilities.
• Strengthen anticipatory actions for potential disease outbreaks.
• Strengthen prevention, testing and treatment of common childhood illnesses (malaria, fever, diarrhoea).
• Scale up Anaemia prevention and treatment interventions among children and women of reproductive age.
• Improve coverage of WASH practices such as access to sufficient water and sanitation facilities in affected areas.