Promoting Female Empowerment at the Household Level Among Couples in Ibadan, Nigeria

Summary

Sub-Saharan African women continue to face socio-economic challenges and limited reproductive freedoms, which diminishes their ability to exercise agency and choice in their lives and their environment. The goal of this study is to generate rigorous scientific evidence on empowering women individually and in households through a cluster randomized control trial. The trial will test the efficacy of a multi-sectoral program targeting three critical domains of female empowerment through gender socialization education, counseling and improved access to family planning, financial literacy among couples in Ibadan, Nigeria. The innovation in this approach is the focus on creating a supportive intra-familial environment to accelerate progress towards female empowerment, not just with the multi-sectoral intervention, but also by targeting both partners of couples, individually and together. It is hoped that there will be a shift of broader community norms by building the capacity of study couples to transfer their newly acquired knowledge and skills to other couples in their community, thereby creating a ripple of change.

Conditions

• Gender Role
• Woman's Role
• Couples
• Literacy
• Family Size

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Gender Socialization Training workshop

Hands-on training workshops including lectures, group activities, role play and group discussions focused on gender socialization.

BEHAVIORAL

Financial Literacy Training Intervention

Hands-on training workshops including lectures, group activities, role play and group discussions focused on financial literacy.

BEHAVIORAL

Family Planning Counseling and Services

Family planning counseling sessions and linkage to services.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• International Center for Research on Women

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Ibadan

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Funmilola OlaOlorun, PhD · College of Medicine University of Ibadan

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

35 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-09-15

Primary Completion

2018-07-10

Completion

2019-05-28

Countries

• Nigeria

Study Locations