How cash transfers can improve the nutrition of the poorest children. Evaluation of a pilot safety net project in southern Niger

This report sets out what we learned through our evaluation of the cash transfer pilot project. The report findings show how targeted cash transfers can affect the food intake and earning power of the poorest households. The evaluation also looked at the links between increased income during the hunger gap, and young children’s food intake and nutritional status. Although lack of income among poor households is an important cause of malnutrition, there is no guarantee that increasing income will automatically lead to an improvement in children’s nutritional status. That is why there was a strong evaluation element to the project.