Complementary Feeding Project in Ethiopia

NCT ID: NCT05062382

Last Updated: 2022-08-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1132 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-09-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-07-01

Brief Summary

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a Swiss-based foundation, implemented a complementary feeding project to improve dietary quality among children 6-59 months of age living in Ethiopia by improving demand and access to eggs. Using a quasi-experimental design and two separate cross-sectional surveys at baseline and end-line, the evaluation seeks to determine the effects of the program on egg consumption, availability of eggs, caregivers' behaviours toward eggs, and caregivers' willingness to pay for eggs.

Detailed Description

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a Swiss-based foundation, implemented a complementary feeding project to improve dietary quality among children 6-59 months of age living in Ethiopia by improving demand and access to eggs. The complementary feeding project aimed to boost children's consumption of eggs. The intervention incorporated demand creation campaigns and supported selected delivery channels and producers who provided eggs to communities. GAIN's demand creation strategy was designed to complement the Ethiopian government's effort to use social and behavior change communication to encourage consumption of nutritious complementary foods. This campaign was implemented through the existing health extension system.

Areas included in the intervention arm received direct support for egg producers and suppliers and an egg demand creation campaign. Supply-side interventions included training for farmers, identification of distribution channels, mapping of retailers, and creation of linkages between egg producers and egg suppliers. Egg demand-creation activities were executed through above-the-line (ATL) and below-the-line (BTL) campaigns. The ATL campaigns included radio messages, bajaja branding, billboard mounting, and digital promotion. The BTL campaigns include market activation, road shows, sensitization workshops for key community groups, door-to-door promotion, and mobile promotion in collaboration with creative agencies and health extension workers. Both sets of activities focused on creating awareness around eggs as a daily nutritious food option for children.

Originally, the study intended to also increase availability of, and demand for, commercially-available complementary foods (i.e., Cerifam and Fafa), however, these components of the intervention were not delivered. Therefore, we have removed these components from the description and removed the outcomes that corresponded with these components of the intervention.

Using a quasi-experimental design and two separate cross-sectional surveys at baseline and end-line, the evaluation seeks to determine the effects of the program on egg consumption, availability of eggs, caregivers' behaviours toward eggs, and caregivers' willingness to pay for eggs.

Conditions

Egg Consumption

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Complementary feeding program

Promotion of eggs.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Complementary feeding intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The study promoted eggs.

GAIN provided training to egg farmers to increase their egg production and marketing, helped increase mother's access to eggs by making them more available in local kiosks and getting retailers to display promotional messages around eggs, conducted sensitization workshops with retailers to increase egg purchases, and employed a demand creation campaign.

Comparison

Comparison arm with no program

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Complementary feeding intervention

The study promoted eggs.

GAIN provided training to egg farmers to increase their egg production and marketing, helped increase mother's access to eggs by making them more available in local kiosks and getting retailers to display promotional messages around eggs, conducted sensitization workshops with retailers to increase egg purchases, and employed a demand creation campaign.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Living in the project areas
• Caregiver 18 years old or above

Exclusion Criteria

• households without children between the ages of 6-59 months

• Minimum Eligible Age: 6 Months
• Maximum Eligible Age: 59 Months
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of South Carolina

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Edward Frongillo, Jr.

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Edward A Frongillo, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of South Carolina

Locations

Deep Dive Research and Consulting PLC

Addis Ababa, , Ethiopia

Countries

Ethiopia

Other Identifiers

102

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id