Transfer Modality Research Initiative - Bangladesh

Summary

This is a randomized control trial in two zones of Bangladesh (north and south). Treatment is assigned at the village level where treatments are: cash transfers (north and south); cash transfers + nutrition behavior communication change (north only); food transfers (north and south); food transfers + nutrition behavior communication change (south only); food-cash split (north and south); and controls (north and south). Within treatment localities, women living in very poor households are targeted to receive benefits for two years.

Conditions

• Improving Pre-school Anthropometric Status
• Improving Household Food Security
• Improving Maternal Nutrition Knowledge

Interventions

OTHER

Cash transfer

1500 taka ($18.75) per household distributed monthly

OTHER

Food transfer

30 kg rice, 2 kg lentils, and 2 kg micro-nutrient fortified cooking oil per household distributed monthly

OTHER

Food and cash transfer

15 kg of rice; 1 kg of lentils and 1 kg of micronutrient fortified cooking oil and 750 taka cash per household, distributed monthly

BEHAVIORAL

Behavior Communication Change (BCC)

Weekly, one hour meetings on maternal and child nutrition, sanitation and health knowledge, attitudes and practice Occasional home visits

Sponsors & Collaborators

• United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

  collaborator OTHER

• Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

  collaborator FED

• Department for International Development, United Kingdom

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers

  collaborator OTHER

• International Food Policy Research Institute

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Akhter Ahmed, PhD · International Food Policy Research Institute

• John Hoddinott, DPhil · International Food Policy Research Institute

• Shalini Roy, PhD · International Food Policy Research Institute

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

NONE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-04-30

Primary Completion

2015-01-31

Completion

2018-07-31

Countries

• Bangladesh

Study Locations