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This brief presents the key findings from the LEGACY Program Randomized Controlled Trial. The Legacy Maternal and Child Cash Transfer (MCCT) was funded by the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund from Jan 2016 to April 2019. The MCCT aimed to improve nutrition outcomes for mothers and children through the delivery of nutrition-sensitive cash transfers to pregnant women in Myanmar during the First 1,…
Executive Summary
In April 2016, Save the Children International (SCI) launched a maternal and child cash transfer program (MCCT), LEGACY (Learning, Evidence Generation, and Advocacy for Catalyzing Policy). The program was implemented in three townships across Myanmar’s central dry zone and is comprised of two interventions targeting pregnant women and mothers of young children:
1. A monthly cash transfer to mothers in their last two trimesters of pregnancy until the child turns two years old (“first 1000 days”); and
2. A monthly Social and Behavioral Change Communication (SBCC)…
This document summarises Save the Children's involvement in supporting the Government of Myanmar and other partners to test and roll out a "First 1000 days" Maternal and Child Grant Programme that has proven to prevent chronic malnutrition. It also explains what this means in terms of coverage of children and what nationwide coverage of such a scheme would mean.
This presentation from IRC, given at the State of the Evidence on Children’s Care Symposium, outlines the findings of recent research on parenting interventions in low-resource settings. The research sought to answer: “Can evidence-based parenting and family skills intervention be implemented in a low-resource, conflict-affected setting?” “Does the intervention have an impact on: a) Parenting practices b) Family functioning c) Child behavior, psychosocial wellbeing and resilience?” And “What are the processes through which participation in the…
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“This report presents findings from the impact evaluation of a parenting and family skills intervention called the Happy Families Program which was implemented by the IRC from 2011 to 2013. The Happy Families Program is a parenting and family skills intervention implemented with displaced Burmese families living on the Thai–Burmese border. It is the first of its kind to be implemented with the Burmese displaced population in Thailand and rigorously evaluated through a randomized controlled trial. The goal of the study is to generate evidence around what works to…
This research brief provides an overview of an impact evaluation of the “Happy Families Program,” conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and research partners from the Harvard School of Public Health and Duke University. The Happy Families Program is a parenting and family skills intervention designed for Burmese families living on the Thai-Burmese border. This brief includes a description of the evaluation, the primary results, and the lessons learned from this evaluation. According to the brief, the research team found that the intervention had a significant impact on…
This Handbook produced by Save the Children aims to provide guidance, primarily for Save the Children staff, NGO partners, Community Child Protection Groups and community volunteers in Myanmar, although the authors hope that it will also be used by responsible government bodies. It is based on the outcome of a workshop organized by Save the Children in Yangon, May 2013 and is informed by the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2009). It clarifies that the intention of the Handbook is not to formalise kinship…
On 26 December 2004, a powerful tsunami washed over countries along the rim of the Indian Ocean, resulting in enormous loss of life and leaving in its wake thousands of children suddenly rendered parentless or devoid of familial caregivers. Subsequently, a project to assess appropriate alternative care choices for children without primary caregivers in Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Thailand took stock of tsunami-related responses as a basis for identifying sustainable and viable models, good practices and lessons learnt with regard to the impact of the disaster on the lives of children.…