Evaluation of the Improving Nutrition through Community Approaches (INCA) Project in Bangladesh: Outcome and Impact Evaluation (Dataset)

Evaluation of the Improving Nutrition through Community Approaches (INCA) Project in Bangladesh: Outcome and Impact Evaluation (Dataset)
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  DP20JB
Citation: Khan, S., Angeles, G., Rahman, M., Chakraborty, N., Moinuddin Haider, M., Escudero, G., Ahsan, K.Z., Ijdi, R.E., 2022, "Evaluation of the Improving Nutrition through Community Approaches (INCA) Project in Bangladesh: Outcome and Impact Evaluation", https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/DP20JB, UNC Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:uc88f7YoBfNOgSi9h2fDfA== [fileUNF] 
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The Improving Nutrition through Community-Based Approaches (INCA) project was designed to provide a comprehensive set of community and service strengthening activities with the objective of strengthening nutrition knowledge, practices, and use of services to improve the nutritional status of pregnant women and children under age two (0–23 months) living in selected areas in southern Bangladesh. INCA was a three-year project (May 2017‒May 2020) with the specific objective to improve nutritional practices during the “first 1,000 days of life” to prevent irreversible stunting in children under the age of two. The overall purpose of the INCA evaluation was to assess how well the project achieved that objective by examining changes in key population-level indicators of knowledge, practices, use of services, and nutritional status between the 2017 baseline and the 2019 endline surveys. The baseline and endline surveys were conducted in September 2017–October 2017 and December 2019–January 2020, respectively, with mothers with children under two years and pregnant women in the project and comparison areas (eight upazilas bordering/neighboring the INCA areas). The evaluation was based on a prospective, quasi-experimental difference-in-differences (DID) design and used data from representative household surveys conducted in the 2017 baseline and 2019 endline. The endline survey was conducted on a representative sample of pregnant women and women with children under age two living in the INCA target areas and in the comparison areas. In total, 5,810 households were surveyed in INCA intervention areas and 5,271 households in comparison areas, along with 457 facilities and 272 out of 471 Community Nutrition Providers (CNPs), in the endline survey—the sample size was selected to be sufficiently large to detect the expected changes in the key indicators, with 95% confidence and 80% power. 
Shortname: DS-22-005 D4I
Author(s): Khan, S., Angeles, G., Rahman, M., Chakraborty, N., Moinuddin Haider, M., Escudero, G., Ahsan, K.Z., Ijdi, R.E. (Data for Impact, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2022
Language: English
Region(s): BANGLADESH