The Nutrition Embedded Evaluation Program Impact Evaluation (NEEP-IE) cluster randomized control trial (CRCT) aimed to assess the effectiveness of implementing an agriculture and nutritional intervention through preschools, known as community-based child care centres (CBCCs) in Malawi. This included; activities to promote nutritious food production and consumption, promotion of optimal feeding and caring practices and engagement with parents in pre-school meal planning and preparation. The NEEP-IE trial has demonstrated that CBCCs can be an effective platform to scale-up an integrated agriculture and nutrition intervention, and improve food production diversity, maternal knowledge, nutrition practices at household level and diets of pre-schoolers and their younger siblings, as well as improve linear growth in younger siblings aged 6-24m. This study presents the impact results of the NEEP-IE trial focusing on child development outcomes of pre-school children during a 12m intervention period.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/adding-nutrition-behavior-change-communication-component-early-childhood
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/childhood development intervention in Malawi.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/aulo-gelli
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/melissa-gladstone
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/aisha-twalibu
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/et-al
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/international-food-policy-research-institute-ifpri
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nutrition
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/malawi
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/children
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/child-health
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty