working paper

The cash for nutrition intervention in Yemen: Impact evaluation study

by Sikandra Kurdi,

Yashodhan Ghorpade and

Hosam Ibrahim

MENA RP Working Paper | 2019 | Pages: 66

DOI : https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133219

Open Access

Citation

Kurdi, Sikandra; Ghorpade, Yashodhan; and Ibrahim, Hosam. 2019. The cash for nutrition intervention in Yemen: Impact evaluation study. MENA RP Working Paper 19. Washington, DC and Cairo, Egypt: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133219

This evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition intervention, a cash transfer program combined with nutritional trainings implemented by the Yemen Social Fund for Development (YSF), examines the program’s impacts on child nutrition indicators and related intermediate variables during a period of conflict. The decline in several indicators of welfare for the sample population that occurred after the beginning of the civil conflict in Yemen is also traced. Overall, the program decreased the share of children diagnosed with moderate or severe malnutrition and improved anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in children in the poorest third of households. The Cash for Nutrition program was funded by the World Bank through the United Nations Development Programme as part of the Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project.