Identifying measures for coverage of nutrition-sensitive social protection programs: Learnings from India.

ABSTRACT: Optimal child growth requires a combination of nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions in the first 1,000 days. There is limited guidance on how to measure the population-level coverage of nutrition-sensitive social protection (NSSP), which is designed with explicit nutrition goals and often provides food or cash transfers and co-coverage with nutrition and health intervention. In this study in India, we designed a questionnaire that captures seven core NSSP program elements (transfer type, size, modality, population, timing, provider, conditionalities), then used cognitive testing to refine the questionnaire, and then implemented the questions as part of a telephone survey. Cognitive testing indicated variability in understanding the terms used to specify NSSP programs, including t

SUBMITTER: Nguyen PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11574639 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature