Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

Early Phase 1UnknownNCT00532753

University of California, Berkeley20,000 enrolled

Overview

The Hunger Project/Epicenter strategy is a community based development strategy that will positively affect health, education, empowerment, and consumption.

The investigators propose a randomized controlled design that will measure how The Hunger Projects' intervention affects the lives of Ghanaians. A pre-intervention baseline survey of approximately 4,000 households with over 20,000 individuals and two follow-up surveys of the same households will be conducted over the ten year experimental period.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

20,000

Conditions

To Better Understand How Epicenter's (Which House Education, Health and Finance Centers in Ghana) Increase Individual's Sense of Empowerment.

Interventions

Community EmpowermentBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * The subject population will be individuals and households from communities in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Exclusion Criteria: * Only exclusion criteria is that households outside of the Eastern region of Ghana will not be surveyed

Locations (1)

Ghana Hunger Project

Several, Eastern Region, Ghana

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Increased sense of empowerment

Secondary Outcomes

Increased health, education, and consumption outcomes and increase in the number of public goods

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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