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Evidence
Evidence on children's well-being, problem first.
Every finding is tied to a defined problem for children, the intervention that claims to solve it, and its type of design. Open any card to compare the same intervention across countries.
A Nutrition Diary in Overcoming Stunting (DIGIDAU): mothers recorded 24-hour food recalls daily for 5 weeks, with counselling, training and weight monitoring
Population
20 toddlers (and their mothers) in Pesanggrahan District who met the research criteria
Key finding
Poor maternal knowledge fell from 17 mothers (85%) before the intervention to none after it; all 20 mothers (100%) improved (P = 0.00).
An integrated package of community-driven development grants targeting health and education outcomes, training for health providers on infant and young child feeding and growth monitoring, and training for sanitarians on a local variation of community-led total sanitation
Population
Communities in 190 subdistricts (95 treatment, 95 control) across South Sumatra, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan provinces, Indonesia, including mothers and young children
Key finding
No significant impact on stunting (0.5 pp; 95% CI: −3.0 to 4.1) or other longer-term undernutrition outcomes.
The 2021 temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit, including the Advance CTC payments
Population
Children and families in the United States, as covered by the Monthly Current Population Survey
Key finding
Claims of a 25 percent fall in child poverty when the Advance CTC payments started and a 41 percent rise when they ended are called weak and overstated.
Child protection system investigation following a maltreatment referral, where referrals above a threshold are automatically "defaulted" into investigation
Population
Children in the U.S. referred to the child protection system
Key finding
Reduction in injuries in the two months after referral for children just above the threshold
Adding crèche (day-care) services, with child stimulation, feeding and health care, to existing Anganwadi Centres under the ICDS programme in Madhya Pradesh. Crèche workers were newly recruited and trained with technical assistance from IFPRI and the World Bank.
Population
Children aged 6-72 months whose mothers go to work, with a focus on children under 3 years, in Anganwadi Centres in Madhya Pradesh.
Different physical education teaching models (e.g. hybrid TGfU–Sport Education, Nonlinear pedagogy, Functional games, Cooperative) compared with each other and with a control
Population
School-aged children and adolescents; the primary network was restricted to participants younger than 18
Key finding
Hybrid TGfU–Sport Education, Nonlinear pedagogy and Functional games had the most favourable relative effect estimates in the primary network.
Treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa)
Population
82 females who had central precocious puberty or central hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis activation and had received GnRHa (mean age 17.61 years at follow-up)
Key finding
Final height of 159.85 cm did not differ significantly from baseline predicted adult height (mean difference 1.98 cm; 95% CI -0.37 to 4.34).
