What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls in Somalia

NCT ID: NCT06554418

Last Updated: 2025-08-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 3500 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-03-01
• Study Completion Date: 2029-11-01

Brief Summary

The Communities Care (CC) program has demonstrated promise in changing harmful social norms associated with Gender-based violence (GBV) and increasing confidence in services for women and girls. Therefore, the study will adapt the existing CC program based on previous learnings with adults and expand programming to include adolescent boys and girls, creating the CC adult and CC adolescent program. The CC program intervention implementation will be led by Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli (CISP) non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in partnership with Somalia Ministry of Education and local Women led Organizations (WLO), public schools and mapped GBV and child protection (CP) service providers in Banadir and Galmudug regions of Somalia.

Johns Hopkins will collaborate with local research colleagues to evaluate the CC adult and CC adolescent program. The study will use a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation design guided by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. Quantitative methods will be used to measure outcomes at baseline and endline (24 months post baseline) with adults and adolescents (10 and older) participants in the CC programs in intervention compared to control districts in the two regions (Banadir and Galmudug) in South Central Somalia. Quantitative methods will also be used to measure outcomes with adults and adolescents (10 years and older) community members (members that do not participate in the CC program) in intervention and control districts in the 2 regions at baseline, midline (12-months), endline (24-months) and maintenance (36 months). In addition, quantitative and qualitative methods at midline and endline will be used to measure the CC adult and CC adolescent intervention reach, adoption, implementation and maintenance in intervention districts in the two regions.

Detailed Description

What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children (FCDO funded) has funded a collaboration between Johns Hopkins and Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli (CISP) NGO in partnership with Somalia Ministry of Education and local researchers and Women led Organizations (WLO) to evaluate the Communities Care (CC) violence prevention intervention with both adults and adolescent in community and school-based settings in two regions of Somalia. The study will use a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation design guided by the RE-AIM framework (e.g., reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance). Quantitative methods will be used to measure violence, health and social norms outcomes with adults (18 and older) and adolescents (10 and older) with participants in CC intervention districts and control districts in the two regions (Banadir and Galmudug) in South Central Somalia. Quantitative methods will also be used to measure outcomes with adults and adolescents (10 years and older) community members (members that do not participate in the CC program) in intervention and control districts in the 2 regions at baseline, midline (12-months), endline (24-months) and maintenance (36 months). In addition, quantitative and qualitative methods at midline and endline will be used to measure the CC adult and CC adolescent intervention reach, adoption, implementation and maintenance in intervention districts in the two regions.

Conditions

Violence Prevention

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Communities Care

Districts in two regions of Somalia randomized to Communities Care violence prevention program with adults and adolescents

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Communities Care

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Communities Care is a violence prevention program targeting social norms and behavioral change

Control

Districts in two regions of Somalia randomized to control - usual programming related to prevention of violence

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Communities Care

Communities Care is a violence prevention program targeting social norms and behavioral change

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 10 years or older
• Participant in CC adult or CC adolescent program in collaboration with 9 public schools in districts randomized to intervention or control in two regions of Somalia
• Living/resident of target districts (including internally displaced persons (IDPs) and does not have plans to move/leave the district or surrounding area in the next 12 months (this is critical for the longitudinal data collection with CC program participants)

Exclusion Criteria

• Less than 10 years old
• Not a participant in CC adult or CC adolescent
• Not a resident of target districts-

• Minimum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Comitato Internazionale per los Sviluppo dei Popoli (CISP)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Nancy Glass, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Johns Hopkins University

Locations

CISP Somalia

Mogadishu, Wadajir District, Somalia

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Somalia

Central Contacts

Nancy Glass, PhD

Role: CONTACT

nglass1@jhu.edu

4432579947

Facility Contacts

Michele Stella

Role: primary

michele.stella@cisp-ngo.org

Other Identifiers

IRB00418976

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id