Impacts of Clean Cookstoves and Empowerment Training on Women's Health in Refugee Settings
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Active, not recruiting
Summary
- Conditions
- Adherence
- Empowerment
- Food Insecurity
- Gender Based Violence
- Mental Health Wellness 1
- Relationship, Family
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Factorial AssignmentIntervention Model Description: In this natural experiment, we have two connected randomized intervention deployments. The cookstove/fuel program was randomly rolled out to 750 households in Kigeme camp over a 6-month period (September 2018-March 2019) by Inyenyeri (a Rwandan social business). A second intervention (I-ACT empowerment training) was rolled out by Plan, International (December 2018-March 2019). I-ACT was deployed to women and their male partners (if applicable and available). After March 2019, the cookstove/pellet program was available to the whole camp. Assessments of impacts are done at 6 months after deployment of the interventions. Due to the staggering of the intervention roll-outs, the midline follow-up includes a six-month follow-up of the cookstove deployment and approximately 2-3 months of the I-ACT intervention and includes both partnered and non-partnered women. The 12-month assessment includes a 6-month follow up of the I-ACT empowerment intervention for partnered women only.Masking: None (Open Label)Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 45 years
- Gender
- Only males
Description
This randomized controlled trial examines the impacts of a phased-in integrated technology -behavior change intervention on women's health with a focus on gender-based violence. In a population of approximately 1500 Congolese households in Kigeme refugee camp in Rwanda, two interventions are randoml...
This randomized controlled trial examines the impacts of a phased-in integrated technology -behavior change intervention on women's health with a focus on gender-based violence. In a population of approximately 1500 Congolese households in Kigeme refugee camp in Rwanda, two interventions are randomly deployed in the camp. The first intervention is the Inyenyeri cookstove/pellet fuel system, a Tier 4 clean cookstove system; the second intervention is a behavior change intervention (referred to as I-ACT, Individual-Agency-Centered Training) designed to foster personal agency and empowerment, given to women and, if applicable, their male partner. Analyses will be done with interviews on 1500 women (ages 18-45) from these households that may have received one, both or none of the interventions, either as the full sample or the sub-sample of partnered-only women.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04081441
- Collaborators
- Fundacion Plan International Espana
- Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
- World Bank
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Anita V Shankar, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Principal Investigator: Naira Kalra, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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