• This article examines how unconditional cash transfers provided through an integrated multi-sectoral programme have impacted child feeding practices.
• Cash assistance increased household expenditure on food, which was associated with improved food security at the household level and improved dietary diversity among children, as well as potentially promoting adherence to treatment programmes by children and their caregivers.
• Technical support on the appropriate collection of relapse information during admission, as well as on improved data recording and reporting from health facilities, is needed to support the scale-up of cash assistance
to food-insecure families with children under the age of five in Yemen.