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dc.contributor.authorSeidenfeld, David
dc.contributor.authorHanda, Sudhanshu
dc.contributor.authorTembo, Gelson
dc.contributor.authorMichelo, Stanfield
dc.contributor.authorHarland Scott, Charlotte
dc.contributor.authorPrencipe, Leah
dc.coverage.spatialZambiaen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-11T10:56:20Z
dc.date.available2014-09-11T10:56:20Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-11
dc.identifier.isbn978 1 78118 181 2
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4385
dc.description.abstractThe Child Grant Programme is one of the Government of Zambia’s largest social protection programmes. The programme provides a monthly cash payment of 60 kwacha (US$12) to very poor households with children under five years old. A randomised controlled trial of 2,515 households was implemented to investigate the impact of the programme. We find that cash transfers improve household consumption, food consumption, diet diversity and food security. These outcomes lie along the causal pathway linking the cash transfer to children’s nutrition. For children under five, we observe positive but not statistically significant impacts of the programme on weight. We find strong and significant heterogeneous impacts on reducing stunting among children who have access to clean water or more educated mothers. The results demonstrate that nutrition can be improved through an integrated and holistic strategy instead of only pursuing targeted programmes in one sector such as health or agriculture.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSpecial Collection;
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access report distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectNutritionen_GB
dc.titleThe Impact of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Food Security and Nutrition: The Zambia Child Grant Programmeen_GB
dc.typeSeries paper (IDS)en_GB
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen_GB
dc.identifier.teamKnowledge Servicesen_GB


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