The evaluation of the Nutrition Project will address three key research questions, which focus on both impacts and implementation. (1) What is the impact of the Nutrition Project's package of supply and demand-side activities on key outcomes? (2) What is the impact of the Nutrition Project on key subgroups, such as those defined by socioeconomic status? (3) How were various components of the Nutrition Project implemented? We will also seek, to the extent possible, to provide evidence on which specific project activities in the package were most likely to have led to the measured impacts and how they did so.
To answer these questions, Mathematica will implement a mixed-methods evaluation, with the quantitative component using a random assignment design. This design enables us to rigorously answer the first two research questions related to project impacts by analyzing quantitative data on both short- and medium-term outcomes. The baseline quantitative data presented in this package was collected in late 2014 and early 2015, and endline data collection is expected in late 2017 or late 2018, depending on the progress of implementation.
We will complement this quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis, mainly related to implementation, in order to answer the third research question. We expect the implementation analysis to take place in late 2016 or early 2017.
