Impact of the Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Interventions: Behavioral: Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health

• Registration Number: NCT06356636
• Lead Sponsor: Amref Health Africa

Brief Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to evaluate the impacts of Financial Inclusion improvement sanitation and Health (FINISH) interventions in Kenya's Homa Bay County and Uganda's Kamwenge District among children under five. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. What is the estimated impact of the FINISH model on health outcomes (diarrhoea occurrence and hygienic behaviour) as well as social (school attendance and sanitation) in the intervention groups?

2. What are the perspectives, attitudes, and practices of various stakeholders (communities, governments, entrepreneurs, and financiers) regarding the FINISH model?

3. What is the cost-effectiveness of the FINISH model, including the amount of leverage funds generated?

The FINISH model postulates that countries will be supported to improve the enabling business environment for sanitation, markets to offer improved safely managed services and products at an affordable price, and formal and informal financial institutions will offer more funding to businesses and households for satiation and hygiene.

Researchers will then compare intervention areas (Homa Bay in Kenya and Kamwenge in Uganda) with control areas (Siaya and Bushenyi in Kenya and Uganda, respectively) to see if the FINISH intervention leads to improved sanitation, health outcomes, and economic benefits.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-01-01
• Study First Submitted: 2024-02-26
• Status Verified: 2024-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-04-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-04
• Study First Posted: 2024-04-10
• Last Update Posted: 2024-04-10
• Primary Completion: 2025-12-31
• Study Completion: 2025-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1090

Inclusion Criteria

• The inclusion criteria for the intervention study involve communities within specific geographic locations (Homa Bay County in Kenya and Kamwenge District in Uganda) targeted by the FINISH Mondial initiative.

Exclusion Criteria

• to be updated

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Treatment group	Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health	The intervention arm involves communities within Homa Bay County in Kenya and Kamwenge District in Uganda, where the FINISH Mondial initiative is implemented. This intervention aims to improve sanitation and health through a public-private partnership model, engaging communities, governments, entrepreneurs, and financiers to enhance sanitation services and supply chains.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health outcome, measured as, Proportion of households with diarrhoea occurrence in children under five years, and social outcome measured as proportion of households whose children missed school due to diarrhoea occurrence	4 years, which includes baseline data collection, implementation and endline data collection	Diarrhoea occurrence in children under 5 years is measured as:- In the past two weeks child/children under 5 years who have had three or more loose or watery stools. households whose children missed school due to diarrhoea occurrence, is measured as proportion of households whose children missed school due to diarrhoeal disease in the past 30 days

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Homa Bay county; 🇰🇪 Homa Bay, Kenya