Addressing School-related Gender-based Violence as Part of the Keeping Girls in School Initiative in Zambia

World Bank

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gender-based Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Empowerment Pilot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05839457

p151451

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this mixed-methods study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based safe-space program delivered to secondary school students in Zambia. The quantitative component of the study uses a randomized controlled trial to measure changes in students' experience of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), attitudes towards gender and SRGBV, socio-emotional well-being, and school climate, among other outcomes. Meanwhile, the qualitative component of the study aims to understand the prevailing norms around SRGBV in schools, the perception of the intervention and its impact, and the potential mechanisms through which the intervention generates its outcomes.

Full description

This study will evaluate the impact of the Empowerment Pilot, a school-based safe-space program delivered to secondary school students in Zambia, implemented between May and November 2023. The main question it aims to answer is whether the Empowerment Pilot changes attitudes and norms around gender roles and school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), increases socio-emotional well-being, improves school climate, and reduces SRGBV. We use a mixed-methods triangulation design and combined qualitative and quantitative approaches in data collection and analysis to enhance the validity, depth, and relevance of our findings. Data will be collected from approximately 6,000 adolescent girls and boys and their teachers across three districts in Zambia.

The mixed-methods evaluation gives equal importance to the qualitative and quantitative components. However, this registration primarily describes the quantitative component of the study.

Enrollment: 6,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for Adolescent Participants:

• Students enrolled in grades 8 - 11 of secondary schools in the 2023 school year at the start of the intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Empowerment Pilot

Treatment:

Behavioral: Empowerment Pilot

Control group

No Intervention group