Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh?
Summary • The Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI) was a pilot transfer program implemented in rural Bangladesh from 2012-2014, following a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. TMRI provided either cash transfers or food transfers, with or without nutrition behavior change communication...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Ahmed, Akhter Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab Hoddinott, John F. Quabili, Wahid Roy, Shalini |
| author_browse | Ahmed, Akhter Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab Hoddinott, John F. Quabili, Wahid Roy, Shalini |
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• The Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI) was a pilot transfer program implemented in rural Bangladesh from 2012-2014, following a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. TMRI provided either cash transfers or food transfers, with or without nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), to ultra-poor women and their family members in two regions of rural Bangladesh.
• The nutrition BCC entailed intensive weekly group-based nutrition training, home visits, and community meetings focused on infant and young child feeding and encouraged home production of nutritious foods.
• We conducted a phone survey in November 2021 to re-interview a subset of the households that participated in TMRI from 2012-2014. We aimed to assess any differences in how they were faring shortly after the devastating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.
• We find that attrition in our phone survey is low relative to the intended sample, and not correlated with treatment. This allows us to assume that differences across the treatment and control arms in November 2021 are causal differences – that is, persistent effects of the different treatment arms implemented seven years earlier.
• Overall, we find that households that received a combination of cash transfers and intensive nutrition BCC from 2012-2014 fare significantly better in November 2021 than those in the control group or the other arms, although they nonetheless struggle in many dimensions.
• In November 2021, compared with the control group, former Cash+BCC households report experiencing significantly lower prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity, report a more diverse diet (being significantly more likely to consume eggs, dairy, and fruit in the previous seven days), report a slightly smaller share of main earners being unemployed, and report experiencing significantly less stress.
• Our findings suggest that providing poor rural households in Bangladesh with sizable cash transfers of long duration alongside intensive complementary programming, such as nutrition BCC, may help them cope with future shocks. Thus, such programming may be a cost-effective strategy to reduce households’ immediate and future food and nutrition insecurity. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1430942025-11-06T05:25:08Z Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh? Ahmed, Akhter Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab Hoddinott, John F. Quabili, Wahid Roy, Shalini covid-19 social protection resilience Summary • The Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI) was a pilot transfer program implemented in rural Bangladesh from 2012-2014, following a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. TMRI provided either cash transfers or food transfers, with or without nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), to ultra-poor women and their family members in two regions of rural Bangladesh. • The nutrition BCC entailed intensive weekly group-based nutrition training, home visits, and community meetings focused on infant and young child feeding and encouraged home production of nutritious foods. • We conducted a phone survey in November 2021 to re-interview a subset of the households that participated in TMRI from 2012-2014. We aimed to assess any differences in how they were faring shortly after the devastating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. • We find that attrition in our phone survey is low relative to the intended sample, and not correlated with treatment. This allows us to assume that differences across the treatment and control arms in November 2021 are causal differences – that is, persistent effects of the different treatment arms implemented seven years earlier. • Overall, we find that households that received a combination of cash transfers and intensive nutrition BCC from 2012-2014 fare significantly better in November 2021 than those in the control group or the other arms, although they nonetheless struggle in many dimensions. • In November 2021, compared with the control group, former Cash+BCC households report experiencing significantly lower prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity, report a more diverse diet (being significantly more likely to consume eggs, dairy, and fruit in the previous seven days), report a slightly smaller share of main earners being unemployed, and report experiencing significantly less stress. • Our findings suggest that providing poor rural households in Bangladesh with sizable cash transfers of long duration alongside intensive complementary programming, such as nutrition BCC, may help them cope with future shocks. Thus, such programming may be a cost-effective strategy to reduce households’ immediate and future food and nutrition insecurity. 2021-12-29 2024-05-22T12:12:00Z 2024-05-22T12:12:00Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143094 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134221 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133420 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133421 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133450 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134909 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179866 https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0720-11014R2 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ahmed, Akhter; Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Hoddinott, John F.; Quabili, Wahid; and Roy, Shalini. 2021. Did prior receipt of social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in Bangladesh? Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143094 |
| spellingShingle | covid-19 social protection resilience Ahmed, Akhter Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab Hoddinott, John F. Quabili, Wahid Roy, Shalini Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh? |
| title | Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh? |
| title_full | Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh? |
| title_fullStr | Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh? |
| title_short | Did prior receipt of nutrition-sensitive social protection build resilience to COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh? |
| title_sort | did prior receipt of nutrition sensitive social protection build resilience to covid 19 in rural bangladesh |
| topic | covid-19 social protection resilience |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143094 |
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