Nutrition-sensitive social protection that enhances household resources and nutrition knowledge can be an important avenue of addressing food security and nutrition concerns of the poor. This paper studies the impact of a cluster randomized intervention of cash or food transfers, with-or-without nutrition behavioural change communication (BCC), on food security and nutrition outcomes in rural Bangladesh. We find that the addition of the BCC to transfers led to the greatest impact on the quantity and quality of food consumed by household members, especially women and children. The addition of BCC also had the greatest impact in reducing the incidence and intensity of deprivations measured using a nutrition-sensitive multidimensional poverty index. Evidence suggests this occurs through the BCC inducing increased consumption of flesh food, egg, dairy, fruits and vegetables and through investments in housing, sanitation and assets.

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营养教育在实现粮食安全和贫困人口充足营养方面的重要性：来自孟加拉国的实验证据*

增强家庭资源和营养知识的营养敏感型社会保护可以成为解决贫困人口粮食安全和营养问题的重要途径。本文研究了现金或食品转移的集群随机干预，无论有无营养行为改变交流 (BCC)，对孟加拉国农村粮食安全和营养结果的影响。我们发现，将 BCC 添加到转移中对家庭成员（尤其是妇女和儿童）消费的食物数量和质量的影响最大。BCC 的加入也对降低使用营养敏感的多维贫困指数衡量的剥夺发生率和强度产生了最大影响。有证据表明，这是通过 BCC 诱导肉食、鸡蛋、奶制品的消费增加而发生的，