Consider evaluating household nutrition, food quality and food safety outcomes in future fisheries projects. In addition to increased incomes among fishers, the compact team anticipated increased fish consumption among households in project cities leading to improved nutrition and health. The evaluation design ultimately did not include evaluating household fish consumption, instead prioritizing anticipated impacts on fishers’ income, since the project had the ability to affect this outcome more directly than fish consumption. Nonetheless, the evaluation findings left the project team wondering whether there were positive impacts on food quality and safety, nutrition and health outcomes that were not evaluated. Future interventions should consider if the proposed project could meaningfully impact nutrition outcomes and changes in food safety when considering whether to prioritize this in future evaluation designs.
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