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Impact of Pedestrian Footbridges on Economic, Health and Educational Outcomes in Rural Communities

NCT03955562 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2400

Last updated 2019-05-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Isolation caused by lack of transportation infrastructure affects almost every facet of life for the rural poor. Without adequate transportation access, families cannot access schools, health care, employment, or local markets to sell and buy goods. The World Bank estimates that nearly a billion people worldwide lack access to an all-season road within two kilometers, illustrating the scope of the problem, and the challenge of addressing it at scale.

Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) is a non-profit organization that builds footbridges to connect rural communities facing isolation to road networks and critical destinations and services. B2P has constructed more than 280 footbridges in 20 countries, an infrastructure intervention that is cost-effective, durable, and relatively simple to scale. B2P's field program in Rwanda started in 2012 and has led to the completion of 37 footbridges that have created new safe access for an estimated 225,000 people. Over the next five years, B2P plans to construct approximately 350 footbridges in Rwanda. This rapid program growth presents an unprecedented opportunity for rigorous investigation of the effects of new footbridges on a number of key economic, health, agricultural and education outcomes for rural communities.

As such, the research team has been brought on to carry out an impact evaluation of B2P-constructed footbridges in rural Rwanda. This protocol is for the first phase of the study and will focus on 12 footbridge sites and 12 comparison sites over the course of one year, while the larger study will encompass approximately 350 sites over the planned five-year construction period. The results of this first phase will inform the design of the larger study.

Conditions

  • Head of Household

Interventions

OTHER

Footbridge

Access to a pedestrian footbridge.

OTHER

Comparison villages

Villages that do not receive a footbridge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yale University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Notre Dame

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Colorado, Boulder

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Evan Thomas, PhD · University of Colorado, Boulder

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-15
Primary Completion
2020-03-01
Completion
2020-03-01

Countries

  • Rwanda

Study Locations

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