NCT04081441

Impacts of Clean Cookstoves and Empowerment Training on Women's Health in Refugee Settings

Impacts of Clean Cookstoves/Efficient Fuels Uptake and Empowerment Trainings on Women's Health and Well Being in Humanitarian Settings in Rwanda

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,555 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The main objective of this study is to understand the links and outcomes of adoption of a cleaner cookstove/fuel and exposure to a personal empowerment training on women's health outcomes in a Congolese refugee camp in Rwanda, with a focus on gender-based violence (GBV).

Detailed 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 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.

Conditions

• Gender-based Violence
• Adherence
• Mental Health Wellness 1
• Empowerment
• Food Insecurity
• Relationship, Family

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Inyenyeri clean cookstove and fuel system	The Inyenyeri cooking systems includes a tier 4 clean cooking system with biomass pellets that are purchased through the unconditional cash transfer program in the refugee camp
BEHAVIORAL	I-ACT (Individual, Agency-Centered Training) workshop	The I-ACT (Individual, Agency-Centered Training) empowerment workshop consists of behavioral exercises drawn primarily from positive psychology, that provide the tools to foster a growth mindset by allowing participants to understand the link between their thoughts, beliefs, and past actions to their future actions. Conducted in a workshop setting, this locally adapted version of the I-ACT curriculum consists of two days for women and a 1 day workshop for their male partners (as applicable)

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-30
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2019-09-09
• Last updated: 2022-08-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Rwanda