NCT02765139

Preventing Intimate-partner Violence: Impact Evaluation of Engaging Men Through Accountable Practice in Eastern DRC

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,387 (actual)
• Sponsor: World Bank · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of Engaging Men in Accountable Practice (EMAP) on the prevention of violence against women and girls in North and South Kivu (DRC). The study is conducted jointly by the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab and the International Rescue Committee (IRC). EMAP is a program developed and implemented by the IRC to engage men to reflect on how to reduce and prevent intimate partner violence through 16 weekly group discussion sessions. The study is a cluster randomized control trial in which two groups of 25 self-selected men in 15 communities receive the EMAP intervention while in 15 other communities, 50 self-selected men receive an alternative intervention. Key outcomes examined include: (i) Experience of past year physical, sexual and psychological violence reported by women whose partners are EMAP participants; (ii) Participant's gender attitudes and behaviors, conflict and hostility management skills; (iii) Power sharing and communication within the couple.

Conditions

• Intimate Partner Violence
• Domestic Violence
• Family Relations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Engaging Men through Accountable Practice	Engaging Men through Accountable Practice aims to engage men as agents of change through structured, weekly discussions with committed groups of men. It aims to address entrenched views of gender roles and identify positive models of masculinity. The approach follows a structured series of discussions designed to explore existing understandings of masculinity and create more positive models of what it means to be a 'good' man, promoting self-reflection and pushing men to analyze and change their own power and privilege. This methodology begins with a series of discussions with women to inform men's dialogue groups, and includes continuous feedback loops with women throughout the process so that the work with men is grounded in, and accountable to, women's views and objectives.
OTHER	Alternative intervention	Control communities will receive an alternative intervention focused on a non-gender topic of 16 weekly sessions for men only.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2016-05-06
• Last updated: 2018-05-21

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Democratic Republic of the Congo