Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

Evaluating the Hunger Project's Scaling-up of Epicenter Strategy in Ghana

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Early Phase 1

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00532753

Enrollment

20000

Registered

2007-09-20

Start date

2007-08-31

Completion date

2016-05-31

Last updated

2008-08-04

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

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

Keywords

empowerment, health, education

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.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALCommunity Empowerment

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

* Only

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Increased sense of empowerment	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Increased health, education, and consumption outcomes and increase in the number of public goods	—

Countries

Ghana

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026