This brief provides an overview of USAID Nurture water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) activities in Laos aimed at increasing and sustaining household WASH targets while also working to achieve community open defecation free status in support of...
Over 300 million dollars are wasted in ‘unnecessary caesarian section’ deliveries in Bangladesh. In countries like Bangladesh where universal health coverage is yet to take a more structured form, these out of pocket expenses can push citizens...
About 60 percent of the children live in poor households in Zambia. Most of these children live in rural areas where the incidence of extreme poverty is five times higher at 76.6 percent than urban levels at 12.8 percent, raising the need and...
This report is a follow-up study related to post-distribution monitoring (PDM1) of the cash transfer component of the program from the previous baseline (+PDM) conducted. It is important to note that between the data collection undertaken for the...
This report presents the results of an HEA (household economy analysis) outcome analysis (OA) exercise in October 2020 for two livelihood zones in Chhedagad and Kush Municipalities in Jajarkot District in Karnali Province of Nepal. The objective...
The Legacy Maternal and Child Cash Transfer (MCCT) was funded by the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund from Jan 2016 to April 2019. The MCCT aimed to improve nutrition outcomes for mothers and children through the delivery of nutrition-sensitive...
The livelihoods assessment will support the design of a child-sensitive livelihood assistance program to prompt livelihoods restoration and prevent, or reduce, the use of negative coping strategies, which are potentially harmful for children. The...
The social, economic, and political consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic have brought about profound change at both the macro- and microeconomic levels. Inequality has deepened and poverty has been experienced in an almost brutal manner,...
This final report provides key highlights as well as an overview of the accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned from USAID Nurture from January 2016 through September 2021. USAID Nurture, led by Save the Children and implemented in...
The Government of Indonesia (GOI) has introduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) as a pilot in October 2017 in five districts of Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) (Lombok Barat, Lombok Timur, Lombok Utara, Lombok Tengah, and Mataram) and...