Gender Relations And Child Nutrition: A Study Of Intra-Household Bargaining In Rural Uganda.

 Introduction

This chapter explains the background of this proposal and provides a short description of the nutrition situation in Uganda. The chapter also examines the gender relations inside the household and how this can affect child nutrition. Also explained is the rationale for the study and the research questions central to this study. This study examines the link between gender relations and child nutrition an integral part of intra-household bargaining in rural Uganda. Gender relations in this study is conceived as the independent variable while child nutrition is the dependent variable. Intrahousehold bargaining is the intermediate variable. The link between the variables can be seen in the conceptual framework in figure 1.