Episode 10: Working Amid War: Assessing Cash Transfers for Nutrition in Yemen

How do you carry out research in the middle of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: the civil war in Yemen?  

This episode features IFPRI Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how Yemen’s Social Fund for Development and IFPRI partnered on the evaluation of a project that gave cash transfers and nutrition education to women in rural Yemen. But when civil war broke out across the country, the Social Fund had to figure out how to keep the project going, and even expand it. The story reflects the determination of IFPRI’s partners in reaching the most vulnerable people in the world and how, against all odds, research showed that nutrition interventions can still work in humanitarian settings.

 

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by Sikandra Kurdi
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