Cash transfer programmes in lower-income and middle-income countries: understanding pathways to nutritional change-a realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Child malnutrition continues to be a significant global public health concern. Nutrition-related interventions have changed and diversified over the last two decades, with increasing emphasis on nutrition-sensitive programmes that address underlying determinants of child malnutrition. Cash transfer programmes (CTPs) are used with increasing popularity in lower-income and middle-income countries to improve both food/nutrition insecurity and resilience. Available studies, however, provide mixed findings on the outcomes of CTPs for child nutritional status. This review is the first stage of a research project to develop evidence-informed theories of how CTPs affect child malnutrition. These will be empirically tested in the field and contribute to a better understanding o

SUBMITTER: Floate HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6537996 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature