Maltreatment by Spouse or Partner Clinical Trial
Official title:
Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess the Impact of Combined Microfinance and Gender Training for Women and Gender Training for Women and Their Male Partners in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
Violence against women and girls is increasingly recognized as a major global public health
and development concern. However, evidence on what forms of intervention should be
prioritised is severely lacking. A cluster randomized controlled trial (The Intervention with
Microfinance for AIDS & Gender Equity - IMAGE Project) in rural South Africa combined a
group-based microfinance intervention with a participatory gender and HIV training curriculum
for loan participants and showed that, over a two-year period, levels of physical and/or
sexual partner violence experienced by participants in the past year were reduced by 55%.
The overall goal of the current study is to design and implement a cluster randomized
controlled trial to assess the impact on intimate partner violence of: 1) combining
participatory gender training with microfinance for women in existing microfinance loan
groups, and 2) a participatory gender training programme for women (not receiving
microfinance) and their male partners.
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