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PR, IFPRI3; ISI; CRP4; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; DCA; Capacity Strengthening, PHND; A4NH, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), This paper reports on the effects of a training-based intervention seeking to increase household engagement in poultry production in Burkina Faso, analyzing data from a large-scale cluster randomized trial in which 1798 households in 60 communes were observed over a period of three years. The intervention SELEVER — entailing a short series of trainings for households as well as capacity building for local animal health and credit services — had little effect on household poultry production and no effect on profits. There is some evidence of an increase in the utilization of poultry inputs and an associated reduction in poultry mortality, primarily for larger poultry producers; however, there is no evidence of any treatment effects for the smallest producers.

PR, IFPRI3; ISI; CRP4; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; Capacity Strengthening; SELEVER; DCA, PHND; A4NH, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Non-PR, IFPRI1; CRP2; CRP4; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; Capacity Strengthening, PHND; A4NH; PIM, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH); CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging. This paper examines the relationship between participation in different elements of the nutrition-sensitive intervention SELEVER, implemented in rural Burkina Faso with the objective of increasing poultry production and enhancing related nutritional outcomes, and women’s poultry production. We use structural equation modeling to estimate the direct effect of each component of program participation. Our findings suggest that respondents’ directly reported participation in SELEVER intervention activities mediates less than half of the observed intervention effects on poultry owned by women as well as women’s revenue and profits from poultry production. Accordingly, other indirect channels for program effects also seem to be important.