Evaluation of a Project to Distribute Water Filters and Cookstoves in Western Rwanda

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Faecal Contamination of Household Drinking Water (Environmental Outcome)

Treatments: Behavioral: Household drinking water filters and cookstoves

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01882777

6239

Details and patient eligibility

About

DelAgua Health and Development, Manna Energy and the Rwanda Ministry of Health are collaborating on a project financed by carbon credits that will distribute household-based water filters and high-efficiency cook stoves to approximately 700,000 households in Rwanda. Prior to the full roll out of the campaign, the implementers are conducting a pilot project among 2000 households in western Rwanda. The objectives of this pilot evaluation are to document the delivery of the intervention to the intervention population, assess coverage and uptake of the intervention target households and conduct a 5-month randomised controlled trial among 500 households to assess the impact of the intervention on drinking water quality and indoor air quality.

Enrollment: 566 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All households in three selected villages

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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566 participants in 2 patient groups

Existing water management and cooking practices

No Intervention group

Description:

Households in the control arm continue following their existing drinking water management and cooking practices

Provision of water filters and improved cookstoves

Active Comparator group

Description:

Households in intervention arm are provided with drinking water filters and improved cook stoves

Treatment:

Behavioral: Household drinking water filters and cookstoves