Social Safety Net Interlinking Nutrition and Workfare Impact Evaluation 2015-2016, Endline Survey (Djibouti)

Abstract

The Government of Djibouti is piloting an innovative integrated public works and nutrition intervention that The intervention (i) actively involves the main caregiver in a number of ways (nutrition, workfare) to strengthen her role in the household and (ii) makes access to income (workfare) conditional on the caregiver attending regular nutrition promotion activities. The impact evaluation is a randomized control trial that allocates the offer of public works program to households who are beneficiaries of the nutrition activities in one neighborhood of urban Djibouti ville (Hayableh). The first objective of this evaluation is to test the value added of combining a public works program targeted to women over and above the provision of information and promotion of behavioral change in nutrition practices. The second objective is to test whether these effects are only short term, or whether they extend beyond the fifty days of participation in the public works program. Endline surveys were collected on average 9 months after the end of the public works programs.