Impact of the Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

— FINISH  

Official title:

Impact of the Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH) 2022- 2024 Intervention. Protocol for a Cluster - Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya's Homa Bay County and Uganda's Kamwenge District

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06356636
• Other study ID #: P1216/2022
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Amref Health Africa
• Contact: Josphat Martin Muchangi
• Phone: 0721453712
• Email: martin.muchangi[@]amref.org
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to evaluate the impacts of Financial Inclusion improvement sanitation and Health (FINISH) interventions in Kenya's Homa Bay County and Uganda's Kamwenge District among children under five. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. What is the estimated impact of the FINISH model on health outcomes (diarrhoea occurrence and hygienic behaviour) as well as social (school attendance and sanitation) in the intervention groups?

2. What are the perspectives, attitudes, and practices of various stakeholders (communities, governments, entrepreneurs, and financiers) regarding the FINISH model?

3. What is the cost-effectiveness of the FINISH model, including the amount of leverage funds generated?

The FINISH model postulates that countries will be supported to improve the enabling business environment for sanitation, markets to offer improved safely managed services and products at an affordable price, and formal and informal financial institutions will offer more funding to businesses and households for satiation and hygiene.

Researchers will then compare intervention areas (Homa Bay in Kenya and Kamwenge in Uganda) with control areas (Siaya and Bushenyi in Kenya and Uganda, respectively) to see if the FINISH intervention leads to improved sanitation, health outcomes, and economic benefits.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 1090
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 0 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The inclusion criteria for the intervention study involve communities within specific geographic locations (Homa Bay County in Kenya and Kamwenge District in Uganda) targeted by the FINISH Mondial initiative.

Exclusion Criteria:

• to be updated

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health
This innovative model engages transformative partnerships which include four key stakeholders (communities, communities, governments, entrepreneurs, and financiers) to improve sanitation services and supply value chains. The work is two-sided: to create demand for improved sanitation facilities in communities while facilitating microcredit access for people and sanitation businesses on the supply side.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Kenya	Homa Bay county	Homa Bay

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Amref Health Africa

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Kenya, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Health outcome, measured as, Proportion of households with diarrhoea occurrence in children under five years, and social outcome measured as proportion of households whose children missed school due to diarrhoea occurrence	Diarrhoea occurrence in children under 5 years is measured as:- In the past two weeks child/children under 5 years who have had three or more loose or watery stools. households whose children missed school due to diarrhoea occurrence, is measured as proportion of households whose children missed school due to diarrhoeal disease in the past 30 days	4 years, which includes baseline data collection, implementation and endline data collection