Episode 10: Working Amid War: Assessing Cash Transfers for Nutrition in Yemen

Research Talks

How do you carry out research in the middle of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: the civil war in Yemen? This episode features IFPRI Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sikandra-kurdi) who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef), tells the story of how Yemen’s Social Fund for Development and IFPRI partnered on the evaluation of a project that gave cash transfers and nutrition education to women in rural Yemen. But when civil war broke out across the country, the Social Fund had to figure out how to keep the project going, and even expand it. The story reflects the determination of IFPRI’s partners in reaching the most vulnerable people in the world and how, against all odds, research showed that nutrition interventions can still work in humanitarian settings. Interviewee: Sikandra Kurdi Interviewer: Sivan Yosef Producer: Sivan Yosef Editor: Jennifer Weingart Promotions: Drew Sample Music/Credits (if any): News Clip from CNN. 2015. Houthi rebels seize airport; U.N. envoy warns Yemen at 'edge of civil war'. https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/22/middleeast/yemen-unrest/. To learn more: Blog post [link forthcoming] Policy Seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/impacts-cash-transfers-preventing-malnutrition-yemen Journal Article: https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12973 Policy Brief: http://ebrary.ifpri.org/utils/getfile/collection/p15738coll2/id/133205/filename/133416.pdf Full Report: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/cash-nutrition-intervention-yemen-impact-evaluation-study Donors & Partners: Yemen Social Fund for Development: http://www.sfd-yemen.org/index.php Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Program: https://www.ye.undp.org/content/yemen/en/home/projects/yemen-emergency-crisis--response----wb.html#:~:text=Through%20the%20Yemen%20Emergency%20Crisis,shore%2Dup%20SFD%20and%20PWP.&text=Our%20work%20brings%20together%20humanitarian,from%20falling%20into%20further%20fragility. The World Bank: http://projects.worldbank.org/P159053?lang=en United Nations Development Programme: https://www.undp.org/ CGIAR Program on Institutions and Markets: https://pim.cgiar.org/ Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit: https://www.giz.de/en/html/index.html Nordic Trust Fund