Family and Childhood Development: The Next Generation ('Kizazi Kijacho')

"All pregnant women served by the trained CHW will be invited to participate in the Parenting program, from when the mother is at least 20 weeks pregnant and less than 32 weeks pregnant with the target child for a period of 15 months. CHWs will visit pregnant women at least 3 times during their pregnancy and at least 16 times following delivery. In addition to the individual home visits, the CHWs will organise bi-weekly in-community group sessions for children aged 6-12 months and their primary caregivers, focusing on caregiver-child interaction and stimulation activities.~The immediate supervisors Health Care Workers (HCWs) of the CHWs will be trained to closely monitor CHWs activities and progress made. HCWs and CHWs will in turn be supervised and supported by district level Council Health Management Team (CHMT).~Parenting services will be provided to all target children of these eligible caregivers, irrespective of their learning or physical abilities."

The fixed cost for delivering the Parenting only Intervention was calculated to be 32,000 TZS. This cost is added to the average of maximum and minimum amount transferred on a bi-monthly basis to similar pregnant women under TASAF: 77,000 TZS. Therefore, in the 'Unconditional Cash Transfer fixed amount' treatment arm, the transfer will be 109,000 TZS (32,000 TZS + 77,000 TZS).

Families will receive from 5-7 months pregnancy over a period of 15 months a bi-monthly unconditional cash transfer, which equals the average of maximum and minimum amount transferred on a bi-monthly basis to similar pregnant women under Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), i.e., Tanzania's National Cash Transfer program.

The rationale for the levels of the varying UCT amounts is to keep them comparable with i) the bi-monthly cost of the parenting program per family, ii) the bi-monthly cash transfers disbursed under TASAF, and iii) the sum of the bi-monthly cost of the parenting program and the bi-monthly cash transfer disbursed under TASAF. The fixed cost for delivering the Parenting Intervention was calculated to be 32,000 TZS. This cost is added to the average of maximum and minimum amount transferred on a bi-monthly basis to similar pregnant women under TASAF: 77,000 TZS. Therefore, in the 'Unconditional Cash Transfer only vary amount' group, each of the amounts vary individually (32,000 TZS; 77,000 TZS; 109,000 TZS).