Evaluation of Marketing Interventions in Colombia

NCT03210454 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IRB00083606
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,882
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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.

Conditions

Gender Based Violence; Intimate Partner Violence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Incidence Physical and/or Sexual IPV

  The number of new physical and/or sexual IPV encounters as reported in the study survey.

  Post-Baseline (12 Months)

• Change in Prevalence of Physical and/or Sexual IPV

  The difference in the number of physical or sexual IPV encounters between baseline and post intervention as reported in the study survey.

  Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• Incidence Physical IPV

  Post-Baseline (12 Months)

• Incidence Sexual IPV

  Post-Baseline (12 Months)

• Incidence Psychological IPV

  Post-Baseline (12 Months)

• Incidence Economic Coercion

  Post-Baseline (12 Months)

• Change in Prevalence of Physical IPV

  Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)

Other Outcomes (7)

• Women's Attitudes Towards Gender

  End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)

• Change in Women's Economic Empowerment

  Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)

• Change in Women's Attitudes Towards Gender

  Baseline, End-Line (12 Months Post Intervention)

Study Arms (3)

Treatment Group 1

EXPERIMENTAL

Farmers associations, including men and women, will be randomized to receive the smallholder marketing intervention.

Other: Smallholder Marketing

Treatment Group 2

EXPERIMENTAL

Farmers associations, including men and women, will be randomized to receive the smallholder marketing intervention combined with the intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention training.

Other: Smallholder Marketing; Other: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Training

Comparison Group 3

NO INTERVENTION

Women involved with farmers's associations that work independently of World Food Programmes (WFP's) assistance.

Interventions

Smallholder Marketing OTHER

The smallholder marketing intervention involves product purchasing (e.g., bananas, beans, goats, eggs) from smallholder farmers' associations through WFP's large procurement procedures. WFP is will also provide technical training on topics such as sustainable farming practices, quality control, and business practices.

Treatment Group 1; Treatment Group 2

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Training OTHER

IPV prevention training involves 24 hours of gender training (gender equality and rights, economic empowerment, gender-based violence prevention), and 8 hours of nutrition and food security training (with a focus on gender).

Treatment Group 2

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Emory University: lead

Study Sites (1)

World Food Programme Colombia

Aurora, Bogota D.C., Colombia

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Vaccines, Inactivated; Vaccines; Biological Products; Complex Mixtures; Poliovirus Vaccines; Viral Vaccines

Study Officials

• Kathryn Yount, PhD

  Emory University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: The randomization occurs at the farmer's association level.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 5, 2017
• First Posted: July 7, 2017
• Study Start: April 2, 2016
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2017
• Study Completion: July 31, 2017
• Last Updated: August 22, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-08

Locations

CO (1)