Zembe-Mkabile, WangaSurender, RebeccaSanders, DavidSwart, RinaRamokolo, VundliWright, GemmaDoherty, Tanya2018-04-282018-04-282018Zembe-Mkabile, W. et al. (2018). ‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa. BMJ Open, e019376.2044-6055http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ bmjopen-2017-019376http://hdl.handle.net/10566/3618Food security and good nutrition are key determinants of child well-being. There is strong evidence that cash transfers such as South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG) have the potential to help address some of the underlying drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition by providing income to caregivers in poor households, but it is unclear how precisely they work to affect child well-being and nutrition. We present results from a qualitative study conducted to explore the role of the CSG in food security and child well-being in poor households in an urban and a rural setting in South Africa.enThis is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http:// creativecommons. org/ licenses/ by- nc/ 4. 0/Child Support GrantFeedingNutritionDietSouth AfricaArticle