Mme Renata Mirulla
Facilitating EVAL-ForwARD, a Community of Practice on evaluation for Food Security, agriculture and rural development
Renata is a Policy Officer and Comminity of Practice facilitator.
She currently works for EVAL-ForwARD, a Community of Practice on evaluation for food security, agriculture and rural development.
She moderated the FSN Forum from 2019 to 2018 and was responsible for the planning, operation and scaling up of Forum activities and of the FSN Forum in West Africa.
Renata holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and specialized in knowledge management and communication for development.
Mme Renata Mirulla
Dear FSN Forum members,
This UNICEF paper on cash transfers and child nutrition provides a comprehensive overview of the impacts of cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: while cash transfers have a positive role in increasing resources for food, health and care, the evidence is mixed with respect to whether these programmes positively impact growth-related outcomes among children.
This paper reinforces the message coming from the Bangladesh study that cash transfers alone are probably not enough to ensure improvements in child nutrition. If cash transfers are delivered along with interventions on nutrition education, behaviour communication, and supply side interventions that improve access and quality of health services there are greater chances to achieve impacts on child nutrition.
I look forward to hear the outcomes from the Moscow meeting last week, where nutrition-sensitive social protection programmes have been discussed and thanks to Lalita for sharing this paper.
Renata