Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

Early Phase 1

• Conditions: To Better Understand How Epicenter's (Which House Education, Health and Finance Centers in Ghana) Increase Individual's Sense of Empowerment.

• Registration Number: NCT00532753
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley

Brief Summary

The Hunger Project/Epicenter strategy is a community based development strategy that will positively affect health, education, empowerment, and consumption.

Detailed Description

The investigators propose a randomized controlled design that will measure how The Hunger Projects' intervention affects the lives of Ghanaians. A pre-intervention baseline survey of approximately 4,000 households with over 20,000 individuals and two follow-up surveys of the same households will be conducted over the ten year experimental period.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-08
• Study First Submitted: 2007-09-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-09-18
• Study First Posted: 2007-09-20
• Status Verified: 2008-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-07-31
• Last Update Posted: 2008-08-04
• Primary Completion: 2010-08
• Study Completion: 2016-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20000

Inclusion Criteria

• The subject population will be individuals and households from communities in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Only exclusion criteria is that households outside of the Eastern region of Ghana will not be surveyed

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Increased sense of empowerment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Increased health, education, and consumption outcomes and increase in the number of public goods

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ghana Hunger Project; 🇬🇭 Several, Eastern, Ghana