The impact of food assistance on food insecure populations during conflict: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Mali

Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of civil conflict on acute child malnutrition in Yemen?: Evidence from the national social protection monitoring survey

“…More broadly, our findings provide additional evidence of the beneficial role of cash transfers in civil conflict settings found in other contexts, such as in India (Fetzer 2018) or Iraq (Crost et al 2016). Our study also complements recent work by Tranchant et al (2018), who find that food assistance has a protective effect among food insecure populations experiencing civil conflict in Mali. Understanding the relative efficiency of food assistance versus (both unconditional and conditional) cash transfers in fragile countries and during civil conflict is an important area of future research that can help humanitarian and development assistance organizations in strategizing and further improving their support to affected populations.…”

“…However, rigorous empirical research on how to mitigate the adverse impact of civil conflict is limited. An exception is Tranchant et al (2018), who assessed the effectiveness of food assistance in Mali. Using a quasi-experimental impact evaluation method, the authors find that food assistance has a protective effect among food-insecure population in conflict settings.…”

The Use of Augmented Reality Blended Learning for Improving Understanding of Food Security

“…The effect of the experimental treatment was calculated through the N-gain difference (posttest score-pretest score) of the experimental group and the N-gain control group. N-gain according to the formulated as follows (Hake, 1998 (Hake, 1998in Apriyani 2013 Following the research method used in the study, the design used in this study is the Randomized Control Group Pretest-Posttest Design, with the research process flow carried out can be seen in Figure 2 below (Tranchant et al, 2019). At the beginning of the experiment, students were ordered to make up a small science project concerning the application of permaculture to evaluate their implementation competencies before learning activities.…”

Optimal Targeting under Budget Constraints in a Humanitarian Context

“…We show how to operationalize such approach in the context of welfare improving humanitarian operations using relatively simple visual devices suitable for policy makers. In this respect, the paper is a complement to the relatively new literature on targeting food and cash programs in humanitarian contexts (Coll-Black et al, 2012;Maxwell, Young, Jaspars, Burns, & Frize, 2011;Morris, Levin, Armar-Klemesu, Maxwell, & Ruel, 1999;Tranchant et al, 2017).…”