Comparing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Cash Plus interventions in preventing Acute Malnutrition in Somalia

Project overview
The project will be testing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Cash Plus interventions on the wasting status of children under five and pregnant and lactating women.
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Principal Investigators: Dr. Nadia Akseer
Purpose
This study aims to compare three different cash interventions: monthly multipurpose cash transfers (MPC), MPC plus social behaviour change communication, and MPC plus top-up cash.
The research aims to measure nutritional outcomes after 3, 6 and 9 months of treatment, using a randomised controlled trial and mixed methods approaches.
The study seeks to determine and compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of each approach in preventing wasting of children under five and pregnant and lactating women in Somalia.
Expected Outcomes
The research will produce evidence to inform more cost-effective programmes to prevent acute malnutrition which will decrease the number of acutely malnourished children. Results aim to influence the national nutrition cluster in Somalia and cash working groups, as well as Save the Children’s own programming.
This should lead to improvements in humanitarian health policy by strengthening humanitarian responses to reach larger numbers through a decrease of costs for programmes treating acutely malnourished children and pregnant and lactating women.
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