Does nutrition-sensitive social protection build longer-term resilience? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorBMZ through GIZen
cg.contributor.donorSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperationen
cg.contributor.donorUnited Nations Development Programmeen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorWorld Food Programmeen
cg.contributor.donorCornell Universityen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeGender Equality
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierAkhter Ahmed: 0000-0002-0112-502X
cg.creator.identifierM Mehrab Bakhtiar: 0000-0002-2946-2271
cg.creator.identifierJohn Hoddinott: 0000-0002-0590-3917
cg.creator.identifierShalini Roy: 0000-0001-8053-1650
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Feed the Future
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Transfer Modality Research Initiative
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number2282en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Akhteren
dc.contributor.authorBakhtiar, M. Mehraben
dc.contributor.authorHoddinott, John F.en
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Shalinien
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-01T19:13:55Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-01T19:13:55Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/155053
dc.titleDoes nutrition-sensitive social protection build longer-term resilience? Experimental evidence from Bangladeshen
dcterms.abstractEvidence shows that cash and in-kind transfer programs increase food security while interventions are ongoing, including during or immediately after shocks. But less is known about whether receipt of these programs can have protective effects for household food security against shocks that occur several years after interventions end. We study the effects of a transfer program implemented as a cluster-randomized control trial in rural Bangladesh from 2012-2014 – the Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI) – on food security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess TMRI’s impacts at three post-program time points: before the shock (2018), amidst the shock (2021), and after the immediate effects of the shock (2022). We find that TMRI showed protective effects on household food security during and after the pandemic, but program design features “mattered”; positive impacts were only seen in the treatment arm that combined cash transfers with nutrition behavior change communication (Cash+BCC). Other treatment arms – cash only, and food only – showed no significant sustained effects on our household food security measures after the intervention ended, nor did they show protective effects during the pandemic. A plausible mechanism is that investments made by Cash+BCC households in productive assets – specifically livestock – increased their pre-shock resilience capacity.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAhmed, Akhter U.; Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Hoddinott, John; and Roy, Shalini. 2024. Does nutrition-sensitive social protection protection build longer-term resilience? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2282. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155053en
dcterms.extent57 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2024-10-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132862en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143574en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/126900en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146008en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/137823en
dcterms.subjectCOVID-19en
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectshocken
dcterms.subjectsocial protectionen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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