What Works to Prevent Violence - Malawi Moyo Olemekeza
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 im
| Condition(s) | Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Earning Outcomes, Norms, Social |
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| Status | Recruiting |
| Phase | NA |
| Study type | Interventional |
| 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 |
| Who can participate | Inclusion Criteria: 1. The household has a woman aged 18-49 who are in monogamous relationships 2. The household is food insecure, where food insecurity is scored on a scale of (0-7) and constructed from responses on 3 questions related to the household's food sufficiency (a) How does the household meet its food needs (b) How often does the household has food surplus and (c) How many times do you eat a full meal on a typical day over a year. 3. The primary decision maker of the household is male 4. Household is willing to participate in community meetings |
| Ages | 18 Years to 49 Years |
| Sex | Female |
| Lead sponsor | George Washington University |
| Locations | Blantyre, Malawi |
| Start date | 2025-10-15 |
| NCT ID | NCT07502183 |
| Official listing | https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07502183 |