NCT02237144

Transfer Modality Research Initiative - Bangladesh

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: International Food Policy Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a randomized control trial in two zones of Bangladesh (north and south). Treatment is assigned at the village level where treatments are: cash transfers (north and south); cash transfers + nutrition behavior communication change (north only); food transfers (north and south); food transfers + nutrition behavior communication change (south only); food-cash split (north and south); and controls (north and south). Within treatment localities, women living in very poor households are targeted to receive benefits for two years.

Conditions

• Improving Pre-school Anthropometric Status
• Improving Household Food Security
• Improving Maternal Nutrition Knowledge

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cash transfer	1500 taka ($18.75) per household distributed monthly
OTHER	Food transfer	30 kg rice, 2 kg lentils, and 2 kg micro-nutrient fortified cooking oil per household distributed monthly
OTHER	Food and cash transfer	15 kg of rice; 1 kg of lentils and 1 kg of micronutrient fortified cooking oil and 750 taka cash per household, distributed monthly
BEHAVIORAL	Behavior Communication Change (BCC)	Weekly, one hour meetings on maternal and child nutrition, sanitation and health knowledge, attitudes and practice Occasional home visits

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-01
• Completion: 2018-07-01
• First posted: 2014-09-11
• Last updated: 2019-09-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Bangladesh