This is a three-year $449,833 research project led from ISSER that uses communications by cell phone to strengthen nutrition among young children in Northern Ghana. The project, supported by USAID under its Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN) program, is testing whether this approach reinforces the Resiliency in Northern Ghana Project (RING), a prominent USAID program focused on nutrition and resilience.
Specifically, it is evaluating the impacts of the RING project on household nutrition and resilience to shocks in Northern Ghana and adds messages by cell phone to encourage and reinforce the project’s nutrition-based interventions. The project is designed as a randomized controlled trial, which makes it possible to identify the true impacts of the interventions by comparing outcomes like food security and household income between households who received the interventions and households who did not.
The project includes about 1,800 households with children under two years old across 180 communities in Northern Ghana. Research partners include Image-AD, Northwestern University and the USAID RING. Learn more about the project “Digital Communication to Reinforce Nutrition and Household Resilience in Northern Ghana”
Expected duration: 3 years (2021 – 2024)
Principal investigator: Prof Robert Darko Osei