NCT00532753

Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

Evaluating the Hunger Project's Scaling-up of Epicenter Strategy in Ghana

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The Hunger Project/Epicenter strategy is a community based development strategy that will positively affect health, education, empowerment, and consumption.

Detailed description

The investigators propose a randomized controlled design that will measure how The Hunger Projects' intervention affects the lives of Ghanaians. A pre-intervention baseline survey of approximately 4,000 households with over 20,000 individuals and two follow-up surveys of the same households will be conducted over the ten year experimental period.

Conditions

• To Better Understand How Epicenter's (Which House Education, Health and Finance Centers in Ghana) Increase Individual's Sense of Empowerment.

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Community Empowerment

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-08-01
• Primary completion: 2010-08-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2007-09-20
• Last updated: 2008-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ghana