Impact of the Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH)

Amref Health Africa

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06356636

P1216/2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 1,090 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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1,090 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The intervention arm involves communities within Homa Bay County in Kenya and Kamwenge District in Uganda, where the FINISH Mondial initiative is implemented. This intervention aims to improve sanitation and health through a public-private partnership model, engaging communities, governments, entrepreneurs, and financiers to enhance sanitation services and supply chains.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control arm includes communities in Siaya County in Kenya and Bushenyi in Uganda, where the FINISH intervention is not implemented, serving as a comparison to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention.