Credit with Education Impact Review No.3: Children’s Nutritional Status

Credit with Education Impact Review No.3: Children’s Nutritional Status

Freedom from Hunger has focused its efforts over the last decade on developing, testing and disseminating a chronic hunger and poverty alleviation strategy called Credit with Education. An integral part of this process is to rigorously evaluate whether Credit with Education—which combines microfinance and health and business education services for rural women—in fact achieves Freedom from Hunger’s mission to improve food security and nutritional status for poor families in the developing world. This paper summarizes findings from Freedom from Hunger’s efforts to assess the impact of Credit with Education on children’s nutritional status. The conclusions presented are drawn from research done on Credit with Education programs in Ghana and Bolivia. Credit with Education Impact Review No.3: Children’s Nutritional Status, by Barbara MkNelly and April Watson. October 2003. 9Copes available from Freedom from Hunger at no charge.)