(iPoster) Impact Evaluation of a Multisectoral Nutrition Policy

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Abstract

Indonesia’s political commitment to reducing stunting is demonstrated through its National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Reduction (2018–2024). This ambitious policy mobilizes 22 ministries and allocates approximately US$3.9 billion annually toward nutrition-related interventions spanning health, water and sanitation, early childhood education, social protection, and food security. The policy was implemented in a staggered manner: starting with 100 districts in 2018, expanding to 160 in 2019, 260 in 2020, 360 in 2021, and all 514 districts by 2022. This paper evaluates whether the observed changes in district-level stunting rates are attributable to this policy, using a staggered difference-in-differences (DiD) design. If the policy is found to significantly impact stunting rates, I will further explore the plausible mechanisms driving these outcomes. The outcome variable—district-level stunting rates—is sourced from Indonesia’s Basic Health Survey for 2013 and 2018, and the Indonesian Nutritional Status Surveys for 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Control variables, including time-varying district-level socio-economic indicators, are constructed from the Indonesian Socio-Economic Household Survey for the same years. The six-year timeframe corresponds to the availability of nationally and subnationally disaggregated stunting data. Districts assigned to implement the national strategy in a given year serve as the treatment group in the DiD analysis.

Author

• Deviana Wijaya Dewi, University of California, Irvine