Sustainability of Impacts of Cash Transfers, Food Transfers, and Behavior Change Communication in Bangladesh

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

5,000

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 15, 2012

Primary Completion Date

May 15, 2018

Study Completion Date

May 15, 2018

Conditions
Food SecurityPovertyChild NutritionChild DevelopmentIntimate Partner ViolenceGender Dynamics
Interventions
OTHER

Cash transfer

1500 taka ($18.75) per household distributed monthly

OTHER

Food transfer

30 kg rice, 2 kg lentils, and 2 kg micro-nutrient fortified cooking oil per household distributed monthly

OTHER

Food and cash transfer

15 kg of rice, 1 kg of lentils, and 1 kg of micronutrient-fortified cooking oil, and 750 taka cash per household, distributed monthly

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition behavior Communication Change (BCC)

Weekly, group-based, one-hour meetings on maternal and child nutrition, sanitation and health knowledge, attitudes and practice; twice-a-month home visits; monthly community meetings

OTHER

Control

No transfer, no behavior change communication

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Cornell University

OTHER

collaborator

Data Analysis and Technical Assistance Ltd

UNKNOWN

collaborator

World Food Programme, Bangladesh

UNKNOWN

lead

International Food Policy Research Institute

OTHER