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Longitudinal impact evaluation of ‘Stawisha Maisha – Nourishing Life’ programme
Overview
The evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa suggests that cash alone may not be enough to address long-term
chronic malnutrition; as a result, cash plus initiatives or integrated social cash transfer programming
(which combine cash transfers with complementary interventions – such as the provision of information
and the improvement in access to and/or the quality of supply-side services) are becoming more and
more common in the effort to address child nutritional deficiencies. The evidence base on such cash plus
initiatives is still scant, although there are some promising results.
In Tanzania, between 2018 and 2019, UNICEF and TASAF piloted Stawisha Maisha Cash Plus programme,
a cash plus intervention where the additional plus component layered on top of the government cash
transfer program was targeted to children 0-5 and aimed at enhancing their nutrition outcomes.
Due to weaknesses in the evaluation methodology used for the Stawisha Maisha pilot programme, the
endline review could not draw robust conclusions on the impacts of the programme. Moreover, the
design of Stawisha Maisha has now been heavily revised to enhance impacts. UNICEF Tanzania and TASAF
are therefore interested in using this timely opportunity to carry out a rigorous impact evaluation of the
recently redesigned Stawisha Maisha programme − including the plan for geographical expansion, the
new eligibility criteria, and the modality of the new programme (i.e. via radios) − and in learning about
the impacts of this initiative.
Beyond measuring programme impacts, there is also a specific interest in understanding, more broadly,
whether the radio could be used in the future as the main communication channel of TASAF with PSSN
beneficiary households in terms of programme announcements and messages to beneficiaries,17 to
improve community sessions and/or to rollout social and behavioural change on issues in addition to
nutrition.
Report Details
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| Consultant name | Tia M. Palermo |
| Agency Focal Point | Luisa Natali |
| Focal Point Email | lnatali@unicef.org |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
| Geographic Scope | Country |
| Country/ies |
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