The cash for nutrition intervention in Yemen: Impact evaluation study

Sikandra Kurdi (), Yashodhan Ghorpade and Hosam Ibrahim

No 19, MENA working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition intervention, a cash transfer program combined with nutritional trainings implemented by the Yemen Social Fund for Development (YSF), examines the program’s impacts on child nutrition indicators and related intermediate variables during a period of conflict. The decline in several indicators of welfare for the sample population that occurred after the beginning of the civil conflict in Yemen is also traced. Overall, the program decreased the share of children diagnosed with moderate or severe malnutrition and improved anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in children in the poorest third of households. The Cash for Nutrition program was funded by the World Bank through the United Nations Development Programme as part of the Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project.

Keywords: gender; child nutrition; social protection; empowerment; nutrition; food supply; food security; cash transfers; breastfeeding; women; dietary diversity; Yemen; Middle East; Asia; Western Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145868

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:menawp:19

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MENA working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().