Fonkoze's CLM Ultra Poverty Programme: Understanding and improving child development and child wellbeing. Endline report

The report evaluates the Chemen Lavi Miyò (CLM) program, which gives women with dependents in extreme poverty in rural Haiti 18 months of material and non-material support. The evaluation uses a quasi-experimental design with propensity score matching and difference-in-difference estimates, on a matched sample of 1,108 respondents (554 treatment, 554 control). It looks at living standards, nutrition, health, maternal depression, child stimulation, education, safety and security, and the balance between paid work and care.

The program has positive effects on household living standards, access to food, maternal mental health, education, exposure to harsh corporal punishment and to violence at home, and on children in the community being sent to work as domestic servants. It has no effect on child feeding practices, stimulating activities with children or attitudes toward child discipline. Women spend more hours on paid work, and children, mostly daughters aged 5 to 9, take on more care work. The research was made possible by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.