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Field
Trial Status
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Before
on_going
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After
completed
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Trial End Date
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Before
December 01, 2022
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After
December 31, 2025
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Last Published
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Before
October 03, 2022 10:20 AM
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After
January 15, 2026 05:51 AM
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
Through the use of a poverty index, our implementing partner, Concern Worldwide, identified the two districts with the highest poverty score, Mangochi and Nsanje, for implementing the Graduation program in. Within this, they selected sub-districts (VDCs) that they would implement the program in. The pilot intervention will be evaluated using a clustered randomized controlled trial (RCT). The randomisation will be conducted at the village level, where Concern Worldwide will be implementing their Graduation program in.
Treatment villages are randomly allocated to one of three treatment options: 1) the graduation programme targeted at women; 2) the graduation program targeted at men, and; 3) the graduation program targeted at women but with an additional couples’ empowerment training called ‘Transforming Gender & Power Relations’. In treatment village, 12 eligible households will be randomly selected to receive treatment.
In order to be eligible, the households had to meet the following criteria:
• The household had to be classified as poor through a wealth ranking or a proxy means test.
• The household head is married and his spouse lives within the household
• Both head and spouse are willing and able to participate in an Income Generating Activity.
• Both head and spouse reside at the household at least 60% of the year.
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After
Through the use of a poverty index, our implementing partner, Concern Worldwide, identified the two districts with the highest poverty score, Mangochi and Nsanje, for implementing the Graduation program in. Within this, they selected sub-districts (VDCs) that they would implement the program in. The pilot intervention will be evaluated using a clustered randomized controlled trial (RCT). The randomisation will be conducted at the village level, where Concern Worldwide will be implementing their Graduation program in.
Treatment villages are randomly allocated to one of three treatment options: 1) the graduation programme targeted at women; 2) the graduation program targeted at men, and; 3) the graduation program targeted at women but with an additional couples’ empowerment training called ‘Transforming Gender & Power Relations’. In treatment village, 12 eligible households will be randomly selected to receive treatment.
In order to be eligible, the households had to meet the following criteria:
• The household had to be classified as poor through a wealth ranking or a proxy means test.
• The household head is married and his spouse lives within the household
• Both head and spouse are willing and able to participate in an Income Generating Activity.
• Both head and spouse reside at the household at least 60% of the year.
In the final data collection round we conducted a measurement experiment testing an alternative sequencing of the intimate partner violence module that reverses the order of the lifetime and recent experiences of violence questions.
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Randomization Unit
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Before
We identified 200 villages, 100 per district, based on each village having at least 20 eligible households in the village. We then randomized across villages, assigning 50 villages as pure control villages and the remaining as treatment villages. After our baseline, we did our next round of randomization, which involved 3 steps. First, we randomized the treatment villages into the three treatment arms. Second, in treatment villages, we randomized 12 households to receive treatment, and the remaining 6 as control households. Third, we randomized all treatment and control villages into cohort 1 and cohort 2, with the first treatment cohort starting with the program in November 2018, and the cohort 2 starting in 2019.
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After
We identified 200 villages, 100 per district, based on each village having at least 20 eligible households in the village. We then randomized across villages, assigning 50 villages as pure control villages and the remaining as treatment villages. After our baseline, we did our next round of randomization, which involved 3 steps. First, we randomized the treatment villages into the three treatment arms. Second, in treatment villages, we randomized 12 households to receive treatment, and the remaining 6 as control households. Third, we randomized all treatment and control villages into cohort 1 and cohort 2, with the first treatment cohort starting with the program in November 2018, and the cohort 2 starting in 2019.
The updated module was randomly administered to half of the female respondents (individual-level randomization).
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Planned Number of Observations
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Before
3300 households: 12 households in control villages, 12 treatment households and 6 control households in treatment villages
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After
3300 households: 12 households in control villages, 12 treatment households and 6 control households in treatment villages
In our final data collection round we no longer include spill-over households.
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