Impact from GROWING Nutritious Foods, GROWING Futures in Six Districts in Ghana and Guidance for Scaling

Findings from the impact evaluation of 1,800 treatment and control households over 3 years demonstrated that the gender-transformative integrated approach significantly improved women's empowerment and gender parity, the quality of the diet among young children and their mothers, uptake of the four promoted nutritious crops and climate-smart agricultural practices, and access to and use of community-based financial services (Figure 1). Several new innovations proved successful. Combining these findings with qualitative assessments has informed recommendations on how to scale this successful approach to ensure greater nutrition and financial security in a fragile, unimodal growing environment. Let's continue GROWING Nutritious Foods, GROWING Futures