From December 4-5, 2017, the Ministry of Food has organized the Technical Symposium on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection, in collaboration with the FAO “Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH)” project, UNICEF, WFP, IFPRI, and Save the Children. This is the second series of symposia focusing on nutrition-sensitive approaches and will be attended by representatives from the Government, […]
In Bangladesh and elsewhere, social safety nets help to reduce household poverty and food insecurity, but yield few improvements in child nutrition. In 2012–14, IFPRI partnered with the UN World Food Programme on a two-year study to determine which safety net transfer modalities work best for the ultra poor in rural Bangladesh. The results of TMRI’s randomized controlled trial showed that all transfer modality combinations were useful, but that cash transfers combined with nutrition behavior change communications had the greatest impact, with a decrease of 7.3 percentage points—almost three times the national average decline—in children suffering from stunting.
For more information on TMRI, please contact IFPRI Country Representative and TMRI Project Lead Dr. Akhter Ahmed.
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