Podcast – The importance of women’s mental health: unexpected findings from a cash “plus” for nutrition project in Malawi

Since 2021, Save the Children has been implementing a cash “plus” for nutrition project (Maziko) in Malawi. Maziko is unique in its multi-sectoral approach which combines a nutrition focused community outreach and behaviour change intervention with nutrition sensitive livelihood, food security and gender transformative components to improve child nutrition and development. In this podcast, Natalie Roschnik from Save the Children guides us through some of the findings from the inception phase of the project. She describes how the team were surprised at the level of importance that women’s mental health and wellbeing played in child nutrition and development in this context. We also gain insight into how Save the Children is engaging men to become more supportive partners and fathers and how they plan to use the learnings from Maziko to inform cash ‘plus’ projects in future.