A5044671447- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Global Health Care Issues
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Economic theories and models
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
2024-2025
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2018-2024
Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning
2018-2024
London International Development Centre
2018-2023
Impact
2018-2021
University of Sussex
2004-2019
Institute of Development Studies
2010-2019
Impact Technology Development (United States)
2018
World Bank Group
2006
World Bank
2003
Many methodologies exist for dividing a population into those who are classified as eligible social transfers and ineligible. Popular targeting mechanisms include means tests, proxy categorical, geographic, community-based self-selection. This paper reviews empirical evidence from range of protection programmes on the accuracy these mechanisms, in terms minimising four errors: inclusion exclusion, by eligibility poverty. also available various costs associated with targeting, not only...
Mali, a vast landlocked country at the heart of West Africa in Sahel region, is one least developed and most food insecure countries world. Mali suffered from series political, constitutional military crises since January 2012, including loss government control northern territories April 2012 until 2013. A range humanitarian aid interventions were scaled up response to these complex crises. In this study, we exploit data unique pre-crisis baseline evaluate impact on security rural...
‘Home-grown’ school feeding programmes are complex interventions with the potential to link increased demand for goods and services community-based stakeholders, including smallholder farmers women’s groups. There is limited rigorous evidence, however, that this case in practice. This evaluation will examine explicitly, from a holistic perspective, simultaneous impact of national meals programme on micronutrient status, alongside outcomes nutrition, education agriculture domains. The 3-year...
Attention to nutrition during all phases of child and adolescent development is necessary ensure healthy physical growth protect investments made earlier in life. Leveraging school meals programs as platforms scale-up interventions relevant function nearly every country the world.The aim this study was evaluate impact a large-scale program Ghana on school-age children's anthropometry indicators.A longitudinal cluster randomized control trial implemented across 10 regions Ghana, covering 2869...
Providing food through schools has well documented effects in terms of the education, health and nutrition school children. However, there is limited evidence benefits providing a reliable market for small-holder farmers "home-grown" feeding approaches. This study aims to evaluate impact programmes sourced from on security, as children's Mali. In addition, this will examine links between social accountability programme performance. field experiment planned around scale-up national programme,...
The calculation of income–poverty profiles should allow for household size and composition, but rarely does so. Failure to do this means that the poverty profile will be distorted. appropriate adjustments are straightforward, requiring simple assumptions which, whilst arbitrary, better than ignoring problem. Not making these distorts not only relationship between poverty, all aspects correlated size. For case Vietnam, article shows that, if made, rural is under–stated as amongst those with...
Abstract The Community‐Based Nutrition Component of the Bangladesh Integrated Project sought to improve nutritional status through counselling and supplementary feeding for malnourished children pregnant women. This paper presents a theory‐based impact evaluation this programme. Both suffered from problems inappropriate targeting strategies failure reach intended groups. While has changed women's knowledge it had less an on behaviour. There is knowledge‐practice gap, which explained by...
Despite the popularity of policy briefs as a tool for disseminating research, there is no evidence their effectiveness in changing people's beliefs. We conducted an experiment whereby readers brief were randomly assigned to different versions and control group. collected data on opinions knowledge regarding impact agricultural interventions before after reading conclusions systematic review. found that helped some form opinion, but we change prior recommend more trials laboratory experiments...
The paper discusses the role of systematic evidence in helping make better decisions to reach global development targets. Coming at end first decade serious funding and support for generation economics studies, presents opportunities challenges continued review methodologies. It concludes by introducing papers collected issue, which demonstrate case theory-based approaches synthesis.