The Millennium Challenge Corporation contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to
conduct a rigorous randomized evaluation of the Indonesian Community-Based Health and
Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project, also known as the Nutrition Project, to understand the
project’s effects on stunting and related key maternal and child health outcomes. The baseline
report presents the results of the study’s baseline data collection that took place between
November 2014 and February 2015 and has two key objectives. The first is to confirm the
randomized design of the evaluation by demonstrating equivalence across the treatment and
control subdistricts (kecamatan). The second is to describe conditions at baseline and provide
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia
(MCA-I) with information that could improve the design and implementation of project
activities.