Child undernutrition Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine Malnutrition
Conditions
Interventions
Cash transfers to households classified as very poor.
Comparing standard seasonal UCT intervention (done over the four-month period of the lean season (June – September) to earlier seasonal UCT inter
Sponsors
University College London
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. The geographical inclusion criteria is settlements within the Affala and Takanamatt Communes of Tahoua district, Niger. 2. Within this geographical area settlements that have been previously targeted for inclusion within the Concern Worldwide humanitarian cash transfer programme, will be eligible for inclusion in the study. (Within eligible settlements, only households defined as the most vulnerable by Concern Worldwide are targeted to receive cash transfers.) Study clusters will include one or more settlements and will be randomly allocated to one of two study arms in a public randomisation event. 3. Within clusters, households receiving a cash transfer will be exhaustively sampled and a sub-sample of households not receiving the cast transfer will randomly selected. 4.Within these selected households, two groups of individuals will be exhaustively sampled:: 4.1 Women aged 15-49 years 4.2 Children aged 6-59 months
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Households without children aged 6-59 months 2. Severely disabled individuals on which anthropometric measures cannot be taken 3. Individuals confined to bed due to illness
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Prevalence of global acute malnutrition (weight-for-height <-2 z scores (WHO 2006 growth standards) and/or nutritional oedema) in children 6-59 months Data collection will take place before and after the intervention (that is March/April and September/October for the baseline and end line data, respectively). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Prevalence of global acute malnutrition (mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) <11.5 cm and/or nutritional oedema) in children 6-59 months 2. Mean weight-for-height (WHO 2006 growth standards) in children 6-59 months 3. Mean MUAC in children 6-59 months 4. Mean haemoglobin in children aged 6-59 months 5. Prevalence of anaemia in children aged 6-59 months 6. Mean haemoglobin in women aged 15-49 years 7. Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15-49 years 8. Household Diet Diversity Score 9. Individual Diet Diversity Score in children aged 6-59 months 10. Individual Diet Diversity Score in women aged 15-49 years 11. Household expenditure 12. Cost effectiveness of the modified cash transfer intervention Data collection will take place before and after the intervention (that is March/April and September/October for the baseline and end line data, respectively). | — |
Countries
Niger
Outcome results
None listed