This report evaluates impacts on child nutrition of the Cash for Nutrition component of the Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project, implemented by the Yemen Social Fund for Development.  The current Cash for Nutrition program is a resumption and expansion of a conditional cash transfer program which started as a pilot in Al Hodeidah in January 2015, with the aim of reducing the high prevalence of child malnutrition. 

 

The study takes advantage of the fact that an RCT was initially planned for the pilot program. It was aimed at evaluating the impact of the cash transfer program, in the context of today’s civil conflict –resulting in deterioration of humanitarian conditions. The conditionality of the cash transfers is based on attendance of nutritional trainings and compliance with child monitoring and treatment for malnutrition. 

 

The study found significant positive impacts of the cash for nutrition intervention on a range of intermediate outcomes, illustrating that the program improved knowledge of child feeding practices and increased spending on high value foods and dietary diversity.

 

Speaker

• Sikandra Kurdi, Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI

 

Discussants

• Ruslan Yemtsov, Social Safety Nets GSG Program Lead, The World Bank Group
• Carlo del Ninno, Lead Economist, The World Bank Group
• Meera Shekar, Lead Health Specialist, The World Bank Group

 

Chair

• Hana Brixi, Practice Manager, The World Bank Group

 

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