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Abstract: Interventions that enhance women’s incomes are likely to improve child nutrition outcomes. This association may be reduced if women increase their economic contribution primarily to household non-food rather than food expenditures. The ENAM project is a nutrition education and enterprise development intervention aimed at improving caregiver incomes and children’s animal source food (ASF) intakes. We assessed caregivers’ contributions to household food and non-food expenditures and their differential effects on children’s ASF diversity and growth. 179 intervention and 287 control caregivers were interviewed about their household expenditures at 4 quarterly time points. Children’s ASF intakes and anthropometry were also recorded. There were no between-group differences at baseline. At the final time point, compared to control households, the intervention households had higher percentage increases in caregiver contribution to food (52.5%