Project Title: Effects of Empowered World View on Mindset, Behavior and Child Wellbeing Outcomes
Project Description: As a Christian community empowering and child-focused development agency, World Vision (WV) aims to assess the effectiveness and impact of faith integration in its programming. Empowered world view (EWV) is one of the enabling project models, based on Christian faith principles, developed to transform mindsets world views that are the root causes of poverty and consequent poor child wellbeing A two-arm quasi-experimental evaluation design will be implemented in four new programme areas (APs) located in... As a Christian community empowering and child-focused development agency, World Vision (WV) aims to assess the effectiveness and impact of faith integration in its programming. Empowered world view (EWV) is one of the enabling project models, based on Christian faith principles, developed to transform mindsets world views that are the root causes of poverty and consequent poor child wellbeing A two-arm quasi-experimental evaluation design will be implemented in four new programme areas (APs) located in Iringa rural (Iringa) and Kakonko district in Kigoma Tanzania. Two of these APs are supported by WV United States (WVUS), one by WV Germany and the other by WV Hong Kong Support Offices (SOs). The study will comprise of two intervention sites implementing EWV, Development Programme Approach (DPA) and a package of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive (Livelihood, WASH, Maternal and newborn and child health) interventions to reduce child malnutrition and enhance protection of children and two comparison sites designed to implement only DPA and a package of interventions to enhance child protection. One AP in each district will randomly be assigned to the intervention and the other to the comparison arms. IHI and the University of Alberta Canada have been contracted to evaluate this intervention using a mixed-method approach combining results from cross-sectional population-based and direct programme participant panel surveys with the quantitative and qualitative assessment of DPA and project models implementation quality and ethnographic context of the study communities. Also, the study will undertake video documentation of community and individual household members/children case studies at baseline to provide visual evidence of pre-intervention and post-intervention status and changes. The study designed to provide answers to the following primary questions: 1. What is the incremental impact of adding EWV to interventions aimed to enhance child protection and nutrition outcomes? 2. What is the effectiveness and impact of EWV? 3. What changes can be attributed to EWV? 4. What are the social-cultural factors that have contributed to the changes? The study will use difference-in-differences (DiD) analysis as a percentage point difference whether intervention /treatment sites will have outperformed comparison sites as evidence of the beneficial effect of the EWV.it will also use results from panel data to provide evidence of change over time for individuals who directly participate in EWV plus other study programme interventions. Qualitative and programme implementation monitoring data will be used to provide background and contextual and interpretation of the qualitative findings.
Principal Investigator : Sally Mtenga
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Time frame: (2019-10-01) - (2022-12-31)
World Vision Tanzania (Normal)
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