Award Name: Humanitarian Assistance to Drought-Affected
Communities (HADAC) in Wajir, Garissa, and Mandera Counties in Kenya.

Goal: Improved access to nutritional support for malnourished children and families

Donor: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Sub-grants/Partners: GENCAD-Mandera
Award Location: Kenya, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera counties.
Award Location in Mandera: Mandera West and Kiliwehiri
Start Date: Feb 1, 2026 to 31st March 2026.
Sectors / (Sub sectors): Nutrition, Food Assistance.

Key interventions Activities-Nutrition- By SCI:

• Conduct one -off mass screenings to indentify children under five and prognant and lactating women with malnutrition.
• Treatment of children and pregnant and lactating women with Severe and Moderate Acute Malnutrition through low-cost integrated health, nutrition outreaches in malnutrition hotspots
• Promote optimal Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition in Emergency (MIYCN-E) practices and child protection messages targeting children under five years through the community Health Promoters
• Integrate nutrition education with cash programming
• Procure and distribute 1000 cartons RUFT and 1200 cartons of RUSF
• Distribution of 3100 boxes of PUR.

Key interventions Activities-Food assistance- By GENCAD:

• Cash Assistance beneficiary targeting, registration, verification and validation
• Provide time-bound, emergency, unconditional multipurpose cash (MPC) assistance to 1900 HHs, each receiving KES 7000 per month for 2 months to enable them to meet their most urgent and diverse basic needs.
• Conduct sensitization and contextual Social Behavior Change (SBC) communication on responsible cash utilization, nutrition-sensitive practices, household prioritization of basic needs and prevention of CP risks
• Conduct Post-Distribution Monitoring.