Improving Coverage and Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services in Lao PDR : Impact Evaluation of the Community Nutrition Project
The World Bank supported the community nutrition project (CNP) in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) from 2009 to 2013, ostensibly to respond to the global food crisis of 2007-08. The evaluation finds an attributable effect on only one of t...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: Independent Evaluation Group
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25127960/improving-coverage-utilization-maternal-child-health-services-lao-pdr-impact-evaluation-community-nutrition-project http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22737 |
| Summary: | The World Bank supported the community
nutrition project (CNP) in the Lao People’s Democratic
Republic (PDR) from 2009 to 2013, ostensibly to respond to
the global food crisis of 2007-08. The evaluation finds an
attributable effect on only one of the six formal project
indicators: children in intervention areas were more likely
to receive full diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT)
vaccines. This impact evaluation seeks to address whether
the CNP can make causal claims to improving indicators
related to its six stated project development objective
measurements for mothers and children under two years old:
antenatal care visits, institutional delivery, well-child
checkups, breastfeeding, immunization, and diarrhea oral
rehydration solutions. The results of quasi-experimental
impact evaluation methods indicate that although general
effects for these outcomes are mixed, the project shows
improvements for the poorest 40 percent of the population. |
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