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Improving dietary quality and livelihoods using farm and wild biodiversity through an integrated community-based approach in Kenya and Ethiopia

Cluster-randomized control trial to improve dietary and livelihood of communities in Turkana County (Kenya) and Tigray Region (Ethiopia) using integrated community-based approach

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN11778499
Enrollment
40
Registered
2020-06-05
Start date
2020-06-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2020-06-22

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Conditions

Dietary quality of women and children Not Applicable

Interventions

Study Design: Cluster – randomized controlled trial with an intervention arm and a control arm. The study period is three years and will be implemented in two phases comprising the preparatory phase o

Sponsors

Bioversity International
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Households with at least one woman aged 15 – 49 years and a child aged 6 - 59 months will be the main target for the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Diets of the children and women as measured from baseline to endline as measured by multi-pass quantitative 24 hour recall on two non-consecutive days per subject per survey round by: 1. Dietary diversity scores (percentage of women/children meeting minimum dietary diversity) 2. Nutrient adequacy ratios of the women’s and children’s diets

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
At endline: 1. Income opportunities from marketing of wild foods and other locally available agrobiodiversity measured using household interviews 2. Caregiver knowledge and attitudes and practices related to diet quality and nutrition measured measured through a knowledge, attitudes and practices assessment using individual interviews 3. Household food security measured by Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS), Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP); Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), Household Hunger Scale (HHS) 4. Women empowerment measured using reach and process Indicators, economic advancement indicators and agency or power indicators within the Woman’s Economic Empowerment Framework

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026