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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Four-year effects of a 2-year nutrition- and gender-sensitive agricultural program on women’s nutritional status, knowledge, and empowerment in rural Burkina Faso

2022Bliznashka, Lilia; Becquey, Elodie; Ruel, Marie T.; Olney, Deanna K.
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Four-year effects of a 2-year nutrition- and gender-sensitive agricultural program on women’s nutritional status, knowledge, and empowerment in rural Burkina Faso

Little is known about the sustained effects of nutrition- and gender-sensitive agricultural programs (NSAPs) after they end.To examine the 4-year effects (2010-2014) of a 2-year NSAP (2010-2012) on women’s outcomes in rural Burkina Faso.We used baseline (2010) and endline (2012) data from a cluster-randomized controlled trial of Helen Keller International’s Enhanced Homestead Food Production (EHFP) program and baseline (2014) data from a new program. We included 134 women: 82 who participated in the 2-year EHFP program (treatment) and 52 who did not (control). We examined program (2010-2012), post-program (2012-2014), and overall 4-year effects (2010-2014) using difference-in-difference analysis (DID).We found significant positive program effects (2010-2012) on women’s underweight prevalence (DID: 16.44 percentage points [pp]; P = .09) and on women’s knowledge about appropriate age to introduce liquids (DID: 28.40 pp; P = .01). Although there were no significant postprogram effects (2012-2014), differences found in 2012 between the treatment and control group were sustained resulting in an overall 4-year (2010-2014) reduction in women’s underweight prevalence (DID: 18.26 pp; P = .02) and an improvement in women’s knowledge about appropriate age to introduce liquids (DID: 31.29 pp; P = .02). We observed no postprogram or overall 4-year effects on women’s knowledge of child feeding and handwashing practices or women’s empowerment.Nutrition- and gender-sensitive agricultural programs demonstrate potential for sustained improvements in women’s nutritional status and nutritional knowledge. Postprogram assessments of NSAPs should be embedded in program evaluations to help further understand the potential of NSAPs to generate sustainable impacts on women’s outcomes.

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2022

Authors

Bliznashka, Lilia; Becquey, Elodie; Ruel, Marie T.; Olney, Deanna K.

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Bliznashka, Lilia; Becquey, Elodie; Ruel, Marie T.; and Olney, Deanna K. Four-year effects of a 2-year nutrition- and gender-sensitive agricultural program on women’s nutritional status, knowledge, and empowerment in rural Burkina Faso. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 43(3): 364-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/03795721221090380

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Burkina Faso

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Western Africa; Africa; Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture; Agriculture; Nutrition; Gender; Women; Nutritional Status; Knowledge; Empowerment; Child Feeding; Infant Feeding; Rural Areas; Food Science

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English

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Limited Access

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https://doi.org/10.1177/03795721221090380 Source record

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Sustainable Healthy Diets

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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

2021Bleck, Jaimie; Gottlieb, Jessica; Kosec, Katrina; Boss, Lindsey
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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

Tremendous optimism prevails around bottomup accountability — a situation in which citizens effectively hold their government to account. This contrasts with top-down accountability, whereby higher tiers of governments, donors, or nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) fulfill this role by restraining, monitoring, and rewarding or sanctioning government. Bottom-up accountability can involve direct citizen participation (often involving efforts to provide them information, voice, and involvement in policymaking) or can be mediated through civil society organizations (CSOs) that monitor and potentially reward or sanction government. A large variety of different types of CSOs exist, distinguished both by their organizational purpose and the composition of their membership, possibly with different willingness and ability to hold government accountable.

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2021

Authors

Bleck, Jaimie; Gottlieb, Jessica; Kosec, Katrina; Boss, Lindsey

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Bleck, Jaimie; Gottlieb, Jessica; Kosec, Katrina; and Boss, Lindsey. 2021. Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali. IFPRI Issue Brief April 2021. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294141. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117912

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Mali

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Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Gender; Civil Society; Capacity Development; Social Participation; Organization; Civil Society Organizations; Women

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294141 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Brief

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Experimental evidence on post-program effects and spillovers from an agriculture-nutrition program

2020Dillon, Andrew; Bliznashka, Lilia; Olney, Deanna K.
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Experimental evidence on post-program effects and spillovers from an agriculture-nutrition program

Integrated agricultural-nutrition programs are often implemented under the premise that program effects are durable and spillover. This paper estimates one year post-program effects, three-year aggregate program effects and spillover effects using treated and untreated household cohorts. Two treatment interventions implemented agricultural interventions with behavior change communication strategies varying implementers using either village health committees or older female leaders. In the post-program period, program effects deteriorated relative to program period impacts documented in Olney et al. (2015), but the three-year agricultural, nutrition knowledge, health care practices and severe anemia impacts remained statistically significant. Despite the non-rival nature of nutrition education and promoted production techniques, there is little evidence of agricultural technology or health knowledge spillovers to non-treated households within treatment communities. Spillover effects measured for appropriate treatment of diarrhea (10 pp increase in giving rehydration salts rather than traditional medicine), wasting (20 pp lower probability of wasting) and children’s anemia status (7 pp reduction in severe anemia) significantly improve in later cohorts. The aggregate program effects and spillovers are generally robust to multiple hypothesis testing.

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2020

Authors

Dillon, Andrew; Bliznashka, Lilia; Olney, Deanna K.

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Dillon, Andrew; Bliznashka, Lilia; and Olney, Deanna K. 2020. Experimental evidence on post-program effects and spillovers from an agriculture-nutrition program. Economics & Human Biology 36(January 2020): 100820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2019.100820

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Burkina Faso

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Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Anaemia; Child Nutrition; Agricultural Production; Programmes; Randomized Controlled Trials; Nutrition; Child Feeding

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2019.100820 Source record

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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Journal Article