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Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Low-Income Families in Guinea-Bissau

NCT03455257 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 34148

Last updated 2018-03-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This pilot study will test the effect of a cash transfer program aiming to improve family food consumption patterns, family health and schooling, with resulting benefits for childhood growth and cognition.

Conditions

  • Per Capita Food Consumption Expenditure
  • Childhood Growth
  • Childhood Cognition
  • Anemia
  • School Registration and Attendence
  • Diabetes

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cash Transfer

The heads of households will receive a cash transfer for up to 7 family members in the home every quarter. Head of households will be expected to attend meetings every 4 months at their local community health centers led by Community Health Workers (CHW). Meetings will have 2 components: 1) children under 5 will be measured to identify children at risk of malnutrition and 2) group education sessions. There will also be monthly growth monitoring and education sessions led by CHW for a subgroup of head of households with children identified as risk of malnutrition with rapid referrals to regional tertiary clinics for any children with health problems that cannot be addressed by CHW.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • International Partnership for Human Development (IPHD)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • National Institute of Statistics (INE)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • World Bank

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ministry of Finance, Guinea-Bissau

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Alfa U Jalo, MS · Ministry of Finance

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-25
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Guinea-Bissau

Study Locations

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