Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar
Despite improvements over the last decade or more, India still accounts for a large proportion of the global prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition. We use a cluster-randomized controlled design and two waves of panel data on more than 2000 households from Bihar to analyse the impact on die...
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| author | Raghunathan, Kalyani Kumar, Neha Gupta, Shivani Chauhan, Tarana Kathuria, Ashi Menon, Purnima |
| author_browse | Chauhan, Tarana Gupta, Shivani Kathuria, Ashi Kumar, Neha Menon, Purnima Raghunathan, Kalyani |
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| description | Despite improvements over the last decade or more, India still accounts for a large proportion of the global prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition. We use a cluster-randomized controlled design and two waves of panel data on more than 2000 households from Bihar to analyse the impact on diet quality and anthropometry of a health and nutrition intervention delivered through an at-scale women’s self-help group (SHGs) platform. We find that the intervention had small but significant impacts on women and children’s dietary diversity, with the main impacts coming from an increase in the consumption of fruits and vegetables and dairy, however, it had no impact on women’s body mass index. We identify several potential pathways to impact. To the extent that SHGs can effect broad-based social change, their current reach to millions of women makes them a powerful platform for accelerating improvements in maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1435182025-12-08T10:11:39Z Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar Raghunathan, Kalyani Kumar, Neha Gupta, Shivani Chauhan, Tarana Kathuria, Ashi Menon, Purnima maternal and child health gender women's empowerment anthropometry body mass index health randomized controlled trials empowerment nutrition self-help groups children diet maternal nutrition rural areas women Despite improvements over the last decade or more, India still accounts for a large proportion of the global prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition. We use a cluster-randomized controlled design and two waves of panel data on more than 2000 households from Bihar to analyse the impact on diet quality and anthropometry of a health and nutrition intervention delivered through an at-scale women’s self-help group (SHGs) platform. We find that the intervention had small but significant impacts on women and children’s dietary diversity, with the main impacts coming from an increase in the consumption of fruits and vegetables and dairy, however, it had no impact on women’s body mass index. We identify several potential pathways to impact. To the extent that SHGs can effect broad-based social change, their current reach to millions of women makes them a powerful platform for accelerating improvements in maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes. 2020-04-01 2024-05-22T12:14:47Z 2024-05-22T12:14:47Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143518 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146875 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Raghunathan, Kalyani; Kumar, Neha; Gupta, Shivani; Chauhan, Tarana; Kathuria, Ashi Kohli; and Menon, Purnima. 2020. Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1936. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133769. |
| spellingShingle | maternal and child health gender women's empowerment anthropometry body mass index health randomized controlled trials empowerment nutrition self-help groups children diet maternal nutrition rural areas women Raghunathan, Kalyani Kumar, Neha Gupta, Shivani Chauhan, Tarana Kathuria, Ashi Menon, Purnima Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar |
| title | Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar |
| title_full | Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar |
| title_fullStr | Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar |
| title_short | Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar |
| title_sort | learning together experimental evidence on the impact of group based nutrition interventions in rural bihar |
| topic | maternal and child health gender women's empowerment anthropometry body mass index health randomized controlled trials empowerment nutrition self-help groups children diet maternal nutrition rural areas women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143518 |
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