This study was conducted in collaboration with SurveyMETER and Mathematica with support from the Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia (MCA Indonesia). MCA Indonesia is an institution established by The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) —a United States Government Organization (established January 2004), after signing a collaboration with the Government of Indonesia in November 2011 to carry out five years of knowledge and health development activities (April 2013 to April 2018).

Among the activities carried out will be conducting a Community Based Health and Nutrition Project Baseline Survey to Reduce Stunting. This study is a baseline survey of the Community-Based Health and Nutrition Project. The Nutrition Project seeks to improve various maternal and child health outcomes, especially stunting, and ultimately contributes to poverty alleviation in 11 provinces in Indonesia. The Nutrition Project is based on the success of the National Program for Community Empowerment, Healthy and Smart Generation (PNPM-Generasi) by increasing community-based development (CDD), which is a project with indicators related to community awareness about nutrition and stunting.

The Nutrition Project also includes supply-side inputs such as building the capacity of mothers and child health workers in addition to complementary feeding and growth monitoring, micronutrient distribution to children, training service providers and community meetings on ways to promote proper sanitation and health behavior, and national and local community awareness campaigns to encourage behavioral changes around breastfeeding and supplementary feeding which can ultimately lead to a reduction in stunting.

The objectives of the study include contributing evidence / basic data on whether related nutrition activities delivered in the context of the CDD incentive model can affect maternal and child health and ultimately lead to poverty reduction. Impact Evaluation will contribute to the evidence on how to reduce stunting in poor and remote areas in Indonesia. Also, it will enable policy makers to understand how the CDD program works in areas that have not yet benefited from the program.

The study was conducted in 190 sub-districts in 22 districts in the three provinces targeted by the Nutrition Project. Namely South Sumatra (9 districts), West Kalimantan (8 districts), and Central Kalimantan (5 districts). In each sub-district 4 villages were chosen in which each village would be randomized to 1 SLS (Local Neighborhood Unit) under the village.

This study is called the Small Indonesian Household Life Aspect Survey (SAKERTI / IFLS) because the data collection stages are almost the same. After listing households in the enumeration area, then the household survey team (HH), the health assessment team (US), and the community and facilities team (KOMFAS) are in different teams but in the same coordination.

Meanwhile, field study data collection was carried out at the end of November 2014 and ended in January 2015. (JF)