Project Title: Saving Brain: “Supply and Demand Driven Models to Deliver Integrated Solutions for Optimal Child Growth and Development in Tanzania”
Project Description: Decades of nutrition and more recent child development trials have produced effective interventions which improve physical growth and development. Despite the strong evidence base, strikingly little is known on the effectiveness of combining interventions into the packages and best implementation models, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. In order to address this challenging gap to roll- out of the comprehensive improve child growth and development programs, the objectives of the project are to 1) Utilize community... Decades of nutrition and more recent child development trials have produced effective interventions which improve physical growth and development. Despite the strong evidence base, strikingly little is known on the effectiveness of combining interventions into the packages and best implementation models, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. In order to address this challenging gap to roll- out of the comprehensive improve child growth and development programs, the objectives of the project are to 1) Utilize community health workers (CHWs) and conditional cash transfer (CCTs) to evaluate the mechanism of action, feasibility and acceptability of implementing an intervention package to promote child growth and development through supply and demand sided delivery platforms. 2) Explore the effectiveness of the two implementation models on the growth and child development. Therefore the project will include a field trial in rural Tanzania with 3 arms: CHWs, CHWs + CCTs; control. The project will innovatively evaluate integrated supply and demand sided platforms to deliver a child growth and development intervention package in peri-urban/rural Tanzania. In supply side only platform, we will utilize community health workers (CHWs) to deliver a package of evidence –based interventions to improve child growth and development. In second arm we will examine a combined supply and demand sided platform and evaluate an integrated CHWs + conditional cash transfers (CCTs) approaches. Individuals in the control arm will receive all standard of care servi
Principal Investigator : Honorati Masanja
Department Name : HSIEP
Time frame: (2017-03-31) - (2019-03-31)
Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) (Normal)
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