NCT05598697

Economic Evaluation of the MEWE Intervention

Economic Evaluation of the Men Engagement in Women Empowerment (MEWE) Intervention (MEWE-EE)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,536 (actual)
• Sponsor: London School of Economics and Political Science · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Cash transfers have shown promise in preventing intimate partner violence, and in reducing recipients' stress levels. Cash transfers with behavioral or psychological interventions have shown limited effectiveness at reducing stress in some African countries. Little is known of the cost-effectiveness of interventions delivered alongside cash transfer programs. The MEWE economic evaluation sub-study (MEWE-EE) runs alongside MEWE, a three-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial in Sindh, Pakistan. MEWE-EE will assess the costs and cost-effectiveness of delivering a cash-transfer program (BISP-CT) combined with a life-skills building curriculum (LSB curriculum), compared to the BISP-CT alone. The LSB curriculum is offered to either women who receive BISP-CT, or to women who receive BISP-CT and their husbands.

Conditions

• Depression
• Mental Health Issue
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Domestic Violence
• Gender-based Violence
• Rape Sexual Assault
• Battered Women

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Life Skills Building (LSB) curriculum for males	The LSB curriculum offers ten weekly 90-minute sessions. Topics include effective communication, gender roles, power dynamics in the household; work-life balance and time management; conflict resolution; household decision making. The LSB teachers are trained in facilitation techniques to deliver the sessions. All male study participants attending LSB curriculum classes are married to BISP-CT clients. For men, the MEWE intervention provides access to the LSB curriculum only.
BEHAVIORAL	Life Skills Building (LSB) curriculum for females	The LSB curriculum offers ten weekly 90-minute sessions. Topics include effective communication, gender roles, power dynamics in the household; work-life balance and time management; conflict resolution; household decision making. The LSB teachers are trained in facilitation techniques to deliver the sessions. All female study participants attending LSB curriculum classes are BISP-CT clients. For females, the MEWE intervention comprises access to LSB curriculum + BISP CTs.
OTHER	Cash transfer to adult females	The BISP intervention offers access to quarterly unconditional cash transfers to adult females.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-15
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2022-11-30
• First posted: 2022-10-28
• Last updated: 2023-12-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan