ABSTRACT

BRAC Bangladesh trains community health workers to communicate about nutrition in its Maternal, Newborn and Child Health programme. We estimate the programme’s impact on nutrition outcomes among rural Bangladeshi children of two years and younger. We find positive effects on dietary diversity, and show that the programme reduces stunting with 7 percentage points using data from 1600 households in 40 beneficiary mouzas and 40 comparison mouzas. We find larger effects for households where primary caregivers have finished primary school. We did not find effects on wasting, which in contrast to stunting is higher among children with primary caregivers without education.

摘要

BRAC孟加拉国在其孕产妇，新生儿和儿童健康计划中培训社区卫生工作者交流营养知识。我们估计该计划对孟加拉国农村两岁及以下儿童的营养成果的影响。我们发现了对饮食多样性的积极影响，并使用40个受益人mouzas和40个比较mouzas中的1600户家庭的数据表明，该程序将发育迟缓减少了7个百分点。我们发现，对于初级护理人员完成小学教育的家庭，其影响更大。我们没有发现对消瘦的影响，与发育迟缓相比，在没有受过教育的主要看护儿童中，消瘦的影响更大。