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What Works - Malawi SASA! Together

NCT06783400 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4800

Last updated 2026-02-12

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Summary

Violence against women is complex and must be addressed at multiple levels, with leadership from women themselves on how to bring about positive change to free women and girls from daily experiences of violence and to promote their rights. It is in this context that the Pamodzi Kuthetsa Nkhanza (PKN) consortium will implement a programme to facilitate the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Malawi as one of the most common forms of VAW experienced in Malawi. The programme takes a whole community approach and uses gender transformative approaches at different levels of society to address the root causes of IPV. It will draw primarily on two existing, evidence-based prevention models, namely SASA! Together (community mobilisation model) and Moyo Olemekeza (MO) (gender norms and behaviour change and economic empowerment approach).

A cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) will evaluate the effectiveness of the PKN programme, assessing the effectiveness of the SASA! Together programme at shifting individual behaviours and reducing violence in intimate relationships while also tackling community norms that drive these forms of violence against women. The cRCT will also assess the added value of combining SASA! Together and a women's social and economic empowerment programme (MO) for most at-risk households.

This protocol focuses on the evaluation of the SASA! Together programme.

Conditions

  • Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
  • Norms, Social
  • Gender Inequitable Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SASA! Together

SASA! Together is a community mobilisation approach that engages communities to create positive and sustainable changes around norms and behaviors that perpetuate violence against women. Some new features in this revision of SASA! include a distinct focus on IPV, including sexual decision-making; three strategies aligned to the socio-ecological model that reach across the whole community (individuals, groups, and institutions); and more support to get organisations and communities started and to sustain change. The evidence- and theory-based SASA! approach is grounded in: (1) benefits-based activism, (2) a gender-power analysis, (3) four phases of change (start, awareness, support, action) according to the stages of behaviour change, (4) holistic community engagement, (5) local activism, (6) community leadership, and (7) institutional strengthening.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Global Women's Institute

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Cape Town

    collaborator OTHER

  • George Washington University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-08-27
Primary Completion
2028-12-31
Completion
2029-12-31

Countries

  • Malawi

Study Locations

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