Impact of Microfinance and Participatory Gender Training for Women in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence (MAISHA)

March 23, 2018 updated by: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess the Impact of Combined Microfinance and Gender Training for Women and Gender Training for Women and Their Male Partners in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence

Violence against women and girls is increasingly recognized as a major global public health and development concern. However, evidence on what forms of intervention should be prioritised is severely lacking. A cluster randomized controlled trial (The Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS & Gender Equity - IMAGE Project) in rural South Africa combined a group-based microfinance intervention with a participatory gender and HIV training curriculum for loan participants and showed that, over a two-year period, levels of physical and/or sexual partner violence experienced by participants in the past year were reduced by 55%.

The overall goal of the current study is to design and implement a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact on intimate partner violence of: 1) combining participatory gender training with microfinance for women in existing microfinance loan groups, and 2) a participatory gender training programme for women (not receiving microfinance) and their male partners.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

2640

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

  • Tanzania
      • Mwanza, Tanzania
        • Recruiting
        • Mawanza Intervention Trials Unit
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Charlotte Watts, Ph.D
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Saidi Kapiga, MD
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Shelley Lees, Ph.D
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Gerry Mshana, Ph.D

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

20 years to 50 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Arms 1 and 2 - microfinance loan groups:

  1. there are between 15 and 30 active members in the group
  2. less than 25% of the women have been members for less than one year
  3. there is a good attendance (repayment) record
  4. a minimum of 70% of active members consent to take part in the study

Arms 3 and 4, women who:

  1. are aged 20-50 years
  2. are not formally employed, i.e. either self-employed or not currently working
  3. have been resident in Mwanza for at least two years
  4. have not been a member of a microfinance loan group in the past 12 months
  5. are fluent in Swahili
  6. have consented to take part in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

None

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Microfinance + gender training
Microfinance + 10 sessions of participatory gender training
Behavioral: Participatory gender training
10 sessions of participatory gender training
Other: Microfinance
Microfinance loan
Experimental: Microfinance only
Receive microfinance only
Other: Microfinance
Microfinance loan
Experimental: Gender training only
10 sessions of participatory gender training for women and their male partners
Behavioral: Participatory gender training
10 sessions of participatory gender training
No Intervention: No intervention
No microfinance or participatory gender training

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Past 12 months exposure to intimate partner violence
Time Frame: 24 months post-intervention
Exposure to intimate partner violence will be assessed using the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women questionnaire
24 months post-intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Collaborators

EngenderHealth
National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 1, 2014

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

July 1, 2019

Study Completion (Anticipated)

December 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 13, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 28, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

October 30, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 26, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 23, 2018

Last Verified

March 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • QA430

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