The Standard package includes a series of actions carried out by the Community and Health Development Agents (ADECOS), who improves access to primary health care practices and promotes well-being behaviors at community levels. ADECOS has the potential to facilitate improvements in the health state and quality of life in rural communities. Activities performed by ADECOS can be grouped into two blocks:

• Health awareness-raising, and promotion activities at the community level (against malnutrition and promoting adequate nutrition).
• Preventive community activities involving the promotion of treatment against malnutrition at the community level and direct referral to local health facilities when necessary.

In addition to the services performed by the ADECOS, it is included a supply of complementary food rations (individual + family) at the relative level, being:

• One individual portion composed by nutritional lipid supplements in small quantities (SQ-LNS)
• One complementary family portion composed by local foods.

In addition to the services performed by the ADECOS, it will be delivered a total of 14,000.00 Kz per month and per relative with 4 or more people living in the same household by the end of the study. It will be delivered a total of 11,000.00 Kz per month and per relative with 3 or fewer people living in the same household by the end of the study. The monetary value will be delivered in cash with unconditional format, and it will not be determined by the investigator team the use and the destination of said amount and nothing will be requested in return.

The Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation (SQ-LNS) consists of micronutrients delivered in a lipid-based vehicle. All pregnant women (as of 12 weeks self-referred) within households who were randomly included in the study in the nutritional supplementation arm and their children as of 6 months of age will receive the SQ-LNS.

● Pregnant women: 20-g sachets, 20 g (1 sachet) dose per day. Nutritional composition and caloric intake.

Total = 12/13 months approximately.

● Children from 6 months of age: 20-g sachets, 20 g (1 sachet) dose per day. Nutritional composition and caloric intake. Total = 18 months.

The distribution will be made by ADECOS on a fortnightly basis.

A family ration will be distributed: family supplementation is presented in a basket of locally produced basic foods that complement the usual diet. The caloric distribution of the basket will be 45% of cereals, 30% of pulses, and 25% in oil, and 1 kg of iodized salt.

Effectiveness of three interventions (standard care, money transfers, and nutritional supplements) to reduce chronic malnutrition in children under two years of age in the provinces of Huíla and Cunene by the proportion of children with different degrees of malnutrition.

Effectiveness of three interventions (standard care, money transfers, and nutritional supplements) individually to reduce chronic malnutrition in children under 5 years of age in the provinces of Huíla and Cunene will be assessed by measuring height/length per age score.