RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE PAPER 12 - CLARISSA CASH PLUS SOCIAL PROTECTION

support with organising and coding qualitative data The authors acknowledge the efforts and contributions of in Dedoose, and Consuelo Farias Valenzuela and the Lead Community Mobilisers (LCMs) and community Saptharsi Dhar for coding the data. [...] That is, they: (i) abstract children in Bangladesh and evaluated in collaboration with the from the social contexts in which they are embedded; BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) (ii) act on rather than with children and their communities; and researchers from the University of Bath and the (iii) fail to address the poverty and insecurity underpinning Open University, UK. [...] improve the ability of households or children to choose alternatives to WFCL? For the evaluation of the CLARISSA Cash Plus intervention, we used a range of data and methods, 2 Learning question: How does the cash transfer influence the effectiveness of the NBCO activities? culminating in an innovative and unique mixed-methods design (see Figure 3). [...] Periodic survey data includes five rounds, collected Surveys were led by BIGD, implemented using digital between late 2020 – before the start of the intervention – devices, and administered to the main adult present in the and late 2023 – at the end of the intervention: household at the time of data collection. [...] The intervention reduced Most of the collective activities facilitated revolved around the likelihood of being poor and dampened the effect of the establishment of shared interest groupings of adults increased food insecurity.