Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers on the Outcome of Treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): a Cluster-Randomised Trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Author(s)
Grellety, E. et al.
Pages
19pp
Date published
26 Apr 2017
Publisher
BMC Medicine
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Children & youth, Food and nutrition, Cash-based transfers (CBT)
Countries
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Link
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-017-0848-y

Cash transfer programs (CTPs) aim to strengthen financial security for vulnerable households. This potentially enables improvements in diet, hygiene, health service access and investment in food production or income generation. The effect of CTPs on the outcome of children already severely malnourished is not well delineated. The objective of this study was to test whether CTPs will improve the outcome of children treated for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over 6 months.