Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development

In Nepal, researchers supported by the World Bank's Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund worked with the government to develop a program to inform pregnant women and mothers of young children on how to best care for themselves and their children,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	CHILD DEVELOPMENT CASH TRANSFERS NUTRITION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BREASTFEEDING
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/578991501084554806/Nepal-Can-information-and-cash-improve-childrens-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28228

id	okr-10986-28228
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-282282021-05-25T10:54:44Z Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development World Bank CHILD DEVELOPMENT CASH TRANSFERS NUTRITION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BREASTFEEDING In Nepal, researchers supported by the World Bank's Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund worked with the government to develop a program to inform pregnant women and mothers of young children on how to best care for themselves and their children, using already ongoing community meetings to deliver messages. An impact evaluation was designed to measure the effectiveness of the information and to test whether combining this with a short-term cash transfer for mothers made it more effective. The evaluation found that mothers who received both information and cash reported a higher likelihood of breastfeeding their babies and reported that they took recommended vitamins and their households consumed more calories. Also, their children had better fine and gross motor skills as compared to the control group, which didn't receive this intervention. But there weren't any reductions in malnutrition. Two years later, after a devastating earthquake in 2015, researchers returned and found that while mothers still retained more knowledge on good nutrition practices, their children didn't show any continued development gains. The results are helping the Government of Nepal as it considers new steps for improving child development, and the materials used during the meetings to inform women about healthy nutrition have been adopted for wider use. 2017-09-08T15:33:14Z 2017-09-08T15:33:14Z 2017-07 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/578991501084554806/Nepal-Can-information-and-cash-improve-childrens-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28228 English en_US From Evidence to Policy; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief South Asia Nepal
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	English en_US
topic	CHILD DEVELOPMENT CASH TRANSFERS NUTRITION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BREASTFEEDING
spellingShingle	CHILD DEVELOPMENT CASH TRANSFERS NUTRITION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BREASTFEEDING World Bank Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development
geographic_facet	South Asia Nepal
relation	From Evidence to Policy;
description	In Nepal, researchers supported by the World Bank's Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund worked with the government to develop a program to inform pregnant women and mothers of young children on how to best care for themselves and their children, using already ongoing community meetings to deliver messages. An impact evaluation was designed to measure the effectiveness of the information and to test whether combining this with a short-term cash transfer for mothers made it more effective. The evaluation found that mothers who received both information and cash reported a higher likelihood of breastfeeding their babies and reported that they took recommended vitamins and their households consumed more calories. Also, their children had better fine and gross motor skills as compared to the control group, which didn't receive this intervention. But there weren't any reductions in malnutrition. Two years later, after a devastating earthquake in 2015, researchers returned and found that while mothers still retained more knowledge on good nutrition practices, their children didn't show any continued development gains. The results are helping the Government of Nepal as it considers new steps for improving child development, and the materials used during the meetings to inform women about healthy nutrition have been adopted for wider use.
format	Brief
author	World Bank
author_facet	World Bank
author_sort	World Bank
title	Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development
title_short	Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development
title_full	Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development
title_fullStr	Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development
title_full_unstemmed	Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development
title_sort	nepal : can information and cash improve children's development
publisher	Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/578991501084554806/Nepal-Can-information-and-cash-improve-childrens-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28228
_version_	1764466624868384768

Nepal : Can Information and Cash Improve Children's Development

Similar Items