Research agenda-setting on cash programming for health and nutrition in humanitarian settings

Woodward, Aniek; Griekspoor, André; Doocy, Shannon; Spiegel, Paul; Savage, Kevin

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“…Adding controls reduces the magnitude of this association (eight percentage points when all controls are included) and it is no longer statistically significant. Table 3 reports associations between e-vouchers and WHZ (columns 1-4) and a measure of acute undernutrition, wasting (columns [5][6][7][8]. The associations between e-vouchers and WHZ and between e-vouchers and wasting are not statistically significant.…”

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“…While these studies provide new knowledge on the impact of transfers on children's nutritional status-most notably the findings from the Pakistan and one of the Niger studies that show that cash transfers can improve some dimensions of nutritional status-they do not tell us whether shifting transfer modalities (ie from food to cash or food to vouchers) will affect the acute or chronic nutritional status of pre-school children living in areas experiencing humanitarian crises. Consistent with this observation, a recent research agenda setting exercise indicated that there was little evidence on the comparative efficiency or effectiveness of cash or vouchers (what the authors refer to as cash transfer programming) on health and nutrition outcomes in humanitarian settings [8].…”

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Food transfers, electronic food vouchers and child nutritional status among Rohingya children living in Bangladesh

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Objective To examine associations between receipt of an electronic food voucher (e-voucher) compared to food rations on the nutritional status of Rohingya children living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Methods This is an associational study using cross-sectional data. We measured heights and weights of 523 children aged between 6 and 23 months in households receiving either a food ration consisting of rice, pulses, vegetable oil (362 children) or an e-voucher (161 children) that could be used to purchase 19 different foods. Data were also collected on the characteristics of their mothers and the households in which they lived, including household demographics, consumption and expenditure, coping strategies, livelihoods and income profiles, and access to assistance. Associations between measures of anthropometric status (height-forage z scores, stunting, weight-for-height z scores, wasting, weight-forage z scores and mid-upper arm circumference) and household receipt of the e-voucher were estimated using ordinary least squares regressions. Control variables included child, maternal, household and locality characteristics. The study received ethical approval from the Institutional Review Board of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. Results Household receipt of an e-voucher was associated with improved linear growth in children. This association is robust to the inclusion of maternal, household and location characteristics. The magnitude of the association is 0.38 SD (CI: 0.01, 0.74), and statistically significant at the five percent level. We cannot reject the null hypothesis that these associations differ by child sex. Receipt of an e-voucher is not associated with stunting when a full set of control variables are included. There is no association between receipt of e-vouchers and weight-PLOS ONE

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Food transfers, electronic food vouchers and child nutritional status among Rohingya children living in Bangladesh

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“…There remain substantial evidence gaps and outstanding questions of interest to international stakeholders (see Puri et al, 2017;Woodward, Griekspoor, Doocy, Spiegel, & Savage, 2018). For example, under what conditions and for which populations is a cash transfer strictly preferred over a transfer in kind?…”

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Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement: Introduction to a Special Issue

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The Journal of Development Studies

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Effective social protection is increasingly as essential to supporting affected populations in situations of protracted instability and displacement. Despite the growing use of social protection in these settings, there is comparatively little rigorous research on what works, for whom, and why. This special issue contributes by adding seven high-quality studies that raise substantially our understanding of the role of social protection in fragile contexts and in settings of forced displacement and migration. Together, these studies fill knowledge gaps, help support informed decision-making by policy-makers and practitioners, and demonstrate that impact evaluation and the analysis of social protection in challenging humanitarian settings are possible. The studies provide evidence that design choices in implementation, such as which population to target, choice of transfer modality or which messages are delivered with programmes, can make a substantial difference in the realisation of positive benefits among vulnerable populations. Furthermore, the findings of the studies underline the relevance of tailoring programme components to populations, which may benefit more or less from traditional programme implementation models. Humanitarian challenges of protracted fragility and conflict-related crises and the more recent unprecedented migration and refugee movements around the globe underscore the need to break down the barriers between humanitarian and development work. Ongoing and new crises left an estimated 206.4 million people in 81 countries in need of international humanitarian assistance in 2018 (Development Initiatives, 2019). Over 65 million individuals were estimated to have been forcibly displaced worldwide in 2015 as a result of prosecution, conflict, generalised violence, or other human rights violations (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 2016). In fragile contexts and protracted crises, such as in Afghanistan and Somalia, responsive long-term systems are needed to reach affected vulnerable populations consistently. Acute and extended crises, such as in Syria, have contributed to migration flows, which also highlight the need for long-term solutions in countries of destination. Social protection is increasingly considered as a policy response in contexts of fragility and displacement. In nonfragile contexts, extensive evidence demonstrates that social protection helps reduce poverty and inequality, enhances livelihoods, and has long-term positive impacts on human capital development (

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Research agenda-setting on cash programming for health and nutrition in humanitarian settings

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Food transfers, electronic food vouchers and child nutritional status among Rohingya children living in Bangladesh

Food transfers, electronic food vouchers and child nutritional status among Rohingya children living in Bangladesh

Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement: Introduction to a Special Issue

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