NCT02592252

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

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

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,640 (estimated)
• Sponsor: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Maltreatment by Spouse or Partner

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Participatory gender training	10 sessions of participatory gender training
OTHER	Microfinance	Microfinance loan

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2015-10-30
• Last updated: 2018-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Tanzania