Clinical trial NCT03210454: Evaluation of Marketing Interventions in Colombia
Official title: Evaluation Of The Effect Of Marketing Interventions For Women On Economic Empowerment And Risk Of Intimate Partner Violence In Colombia
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Gender Based Violence
Intimate Partner Violence
Lead sponsor: Emory University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-07-07
Enrollment: 1882
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The randomization occurs at the farmer's association level.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The proposed project seeks to implement a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) to measure the impact of increasing women´s incomes and providing gender equality trainings on women´s empowerment and risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Colombia. This project will be the first in Latin America to evaluate rigorously the impact of a marketing intervention, alone and combined with IPV prevention training. The knowledge generated from this evaluation has the potential to identify the most effective solutions to empower women, as well as to drive transformative change in current approaches to reduce IPV and promote gender equality in highly vulnerable populations in Colombia, and worldwide.

Detailed description: The proposed project seeks to implement a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) to measure the impact of increasing women´s incomes and providing gender equality trainings on women´s empowerment and risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Colombia. This project will be the first in Latin America to evaluate rigorously the impact of a marketing intervention, alone and combined with IPV prevention training. The knowledge generated from this evaluation has the potential to identify the most effective solutions to empower women, as well as to drive transformative change in current approaches to reduce IPV and promote gender equality in highly vulnerable populations in Colombia, and worldwide.

The goal of the project is to estimate the impact of generating livelihood opportunities and providing gender-based violence (GBV) training to reduce IPV among women in Colombia. This will generate much needed evidence on the most effective approach to empower women smallholder farmers and reduce their exposure to IPV. Investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial targeting approximately 100 smallholder farmers' associations and approximately 2700 women. Results will inform and strengthen future programming of humanitarian assistance and can be replicated in humanitarian interventions in other parts of the world.

The experimental operational research will compare two programmatic modalities and their impact on women's risk of exposure to IPV, against a comparison group where no intervention takes place. The modalities will include: (1) providing a stable income for women, and (2) providing a stable income and IPV trainings to women. The evaluation will take place in five departments: Cauca, Valle de Cauca, Meta, Caquetá, and Nariño.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Women currently married or living together with a man as if married
* Males or females who are active within the farmer's association are eligible to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

* Women who have a husband/partner who is living elsewhere permanently

Primary outcomes:
measure: Incidence Physical and/or Sexual IPV
timeFrame: Post-Baseline (12 Months)
measure: Change in Prevalence of Physical and/or Sexual IPV
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Incidence Physical IPV
timeFrame: Post-Baseline (12 Months)
measure: Incidence Sexual IPV
timeFrame: Post-Baseline (12 Months)
measure: Incidence Psychological IPV
timeFrame: Post-Baseline (12 Months)
measure: Incidence Economic Coercion
timeFrame: Post-Baseline (12 Months)
measure: Change in Prevalence of Physical IPV
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Change in Prevalence of Sexual IPV
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Change in Prevalence of Psychological IPV
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Change in Prevalence of Economic Coercion
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
Other outcomes:
measure: Women's Attitudes Towards Gender
timeFrame: End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Change in Women's Economic Empowerment
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Change in Women's Attitudes Towards Gender
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Household Food Insecurity
timeFrame: End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Change in Household Food Insecurity
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Total Personal and Household Income
timeFrame: End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
measure: Change in Total Personal and Household Income
timeFrame: Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)
Locations:
city: Aurora
country: Colombia
facility: World Food Programme Colombia
state: Bogotá
Study officials:
affiliation: Emory University
name: Kathryn Yount, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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