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Cash transfers are widely employed by governments in many other low- and middle-income countries as a social protection mechanism. This study investigates the performance of different delivery models of a maternal cash transfer program in Myanmar: government health workers and loan agents of a non-governmental organization. Findings show that the delivery of cash transfers through government health workers outperformed delivery in compared to loan agents. Importantly, beneficiaries whose monthly cash transfers were delivered by government health workers received greater levels of and consistency of cash transfers, and experienced greater improvements in child health. The findings shed light on potential to scale up the maternal cash transfer program delivered by government health workers nationwide.