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Research Practical challenges of evaluating BSFP in northern Kenya SCUK, Kenya, 2011 Beneficiaries of BSFP in Kenya Amass or ‘blanket’ supplementary feeding programme (BSFP) was implemented by the World Food Programme (WFP) and partners in five northern districts of Kenya between January and April 2010. It was undertaken due to fears of an increase in the incidence of malnutrition as a result of seasonal food insecurity exacerbated by persistent drought. The five programme districts of Mandera, Marsabit, Samburu, Turkana and Wajir cover 45% of Kenya's total land area (Figure 1) but at the time, contained only 4.5% of the population of 28.87 million recorded in the 1999 census 2 . An attempt to evaluate the impact of the food on children's anthropometric status was put in place in three districts. A recently published study set out to assess the quality of the data on the cohort of children studied in the evaluation and to propose methods by which it could be improved to evaluate future blanket feeding programmes. Reasons for the poor quality of the evaluation are identified. Figure 1: Five districts of Kenya in which the blanket supplementary feeding programme was implemented in January 2010 Turkana Marsabit Sambutu 0 50 100 200 300 400 Mandera Wajir Summary of published study 1 BSFP intervention The primary stated aim of the programme was to protect the nutritional status of an estimated 300,000 children aged 6–59 months, or 20% of the 1999 census population 3 . All children
Research Figure 2: The observed and expected numbers of children (n = 3,555) by age group and sex Age group (months) Expected 6-12 Observed Expected 12-23 Observed Expected 24-35 Observed Expected 36-47 Observed Expected 48-59 Observed ration at the second and third food distributions, as they should not yet have received any supplementary food. A power calculation using Stata 11 7 indicated that a sample size of 3,022 children could detect a 4% difference in the prevalence of wasting from 26% (the average prevalence reported in three previous surveys) 8 over the period of intervention. This allowed for a design effect of 2 due to the clustering of children around distribution sites, 25% drop-out, and assuming a power of 80% and a two-sided statistical significance of P
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