Devex: Impromptu study reveals impact of cash transfers in conflict setting
“An impact evaluation of a ‘cash plus’ malnutrition program in Yemen found that soft conditionality used in a conflict situation has had significant positive impacts on diet and nutrition indicators — results that were obtained by chance. Previous data that measured results of such interventions during conflict was scarce, due to the ethical hesitations of conducting a randomized controlled trial during a crisis situation…” (Welsh, 5/1).