This brief outlines the results of a survey conducted in 2013 evaluating children’s nutritional and health status in the five districts of the Karnali Zone in Nepal, with a special focus on the influence of the child grant program.
The Government of Nepal has been implementing the child grant program since 2010, with the objective of reducing child malnutrition. The program is currently universal in five remote districts of the Karnali Zone and targeted at poor Dalit households nationwide.
An ADB project funded by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, seeks to strengthen the link between social protection through the child cash grant and improvement in child nutrition, and to create an inclusive and equitable social protection system for households with infants and young children.
Achievement of this objective would enable mothers from poor families to access and control available resources to benefit their children, including utilizing health and nutrition services.
Key Points
The Project creates an inclusive and equitable social protection for households with infants and young children.
The Project seeks to strengthen the link between social protection through the child cash grant and improvement in child nutrition.
