Millennium Villages Project in Sub-Saharan Africa

Summary

The Millennium Villages Project involves the coordinated and simultaneous delivery of a package of proven interventions in health, agriculture, infrastructure and education. The project works in partnership with governments in 10 African countries in areas where progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals has been insufficient.

The Project evaluation will test the following hypotheses:

1. That after 5 years of operation, villages exposed to the MVP intervention will have a lower rate of under-5 mortality and parallel gains in MDG-related secondary outcomes when compared to similar villages not receiving the intervention.
2. That the coordinated delivery a multi-sector package of health and development interventions implemented through a broad-based local partnership is feasible in a diversity of sub-Saharan African contexts, and;
3. The intervention package can be delivered at a scalable cost of $40 per person per year in the health sector and $110 per person per year in total

Conditions

• Child Survival

Interventions

OTHER

Health and development intervention package

The timing and sequence of intervention vary by site, but include improved access to seed-fertilizer to increase agricultural production; improved market and capital access; proven maternal-newborn-child health interventions delivered free of cost at the point of service; improvements to school number and quality; and access to basic infrastructure including safe water, sanitation, electricity, transport and communication.

OTHER

Routine services

Routine services and programs currently being administered using prevailing resources, at the current pace and with established partnerships. There is no attempt to limit the introduction of new interventions or agencies into comparison sites.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• United Nations

  collaborator OTHER

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Columbia University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jeffrey Sachs, PhD · The Earth Institute, Columbia University

• Pedro Sanchez, PhD · The Earth Institute, Columbia University

• Cheryl Palm, PhD · The Earth Institute, Columbia University

• Sonia Sachs, MD, PhD · Director of Health, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2005-01-31

Primary Completion

2016-06-25

Completion

2016-06-25

Countries

• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Tanzania
• Uganda

Study Locations