Abstract
Nutrition‐sensitive
SEPARATION
Nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programmes have the potential to improve child nutrition outcomes, but livestock intensification may pose risks related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions. We assessed the impact of SELEVER, a nutrition‐ and gender‐sensitive poultry intervention, with and without added WASH focus, on hygiene practices, morbidity and anthropometric indices of nutrition in children aged 2−4 years in Burkina Faso. A 3‐year cluster randomised controlled trial was implemented in 120 villages in 60 communes (districts) supported by the SELEVER project. Communes were randomly assigned using restricted randomisation to one of three groups: (1) SELEVER intervention (We assessed the impact of SELEVER, a nutrition‐ and gender‐sensitive poultry intervention, with and without added water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) focus, on hygiene practices, morbidity and anthropometric indices of nutrition in children aged 2−4 years in Burkina Faso. A 3‐year cluster randomised controlled trial was implemented in 120 villages in 60 communes (districts) supported by the SELEVER project. Despite low participation in the intervention activities, the caregiver's knowledge of WASH‐livestock risks was higher in the intervention groups than in the control group, but no effects were found on hygiene and hygiene‐livestock‐related practices (except for practices involving separation between livestock and children), nor on child morbidity symptoms and anthropometry indicators.