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Impact Evaluation of an Intimate-Partner Violence Prevention Program in Rwanda – 2017-2019
Baseline and Follow-up

Rwanda, 2017 - 2019
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Reference ID
RWA_2017-2019_IPVIE_v01_M
Producer(s)
Claire Cullen, Arthur Alik-Lagrange, Muthoni Ngatia, Julia Vaillant
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Jul 28, 2025
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    Survey ID number

    RWA_2017-2019_IPVIE_v01_M

    Title

    Impact Evaluation of an Intimate-Partner Violence Prevention Program in Rwanda – 2017-2019

    Subtitle

    Baseline and Follow-up

    Abbreviation or Acronym

    IPV IE 2017-2019

    Country
    Name Country code
    Rwanda RWA
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

    Abstract

    This study evaluates the impact of an intimate partner violence prevention program in Rwanda, using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was a group-based training program for couples led by the Rwandan Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion and implemented by local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The 22-week program was designed to prevent IPV by improving couples’ marital communication skills, changing conservative gender attitudes, and promoting new progressive gender norms in the community. Using a two-level randomized trial design, 98 villages and 2,042 couples belonging to village savings and loans associations (VSLAs) were assigned to treatment or control groups, producing three study groups: a treatment group, a spillover group, and a control group. Two rounds of survey were conducted: one before implementation and the second six months post-program. Information was collected on women’s self-reported experience of emotional, physical, and sexual IPV, and a range of other indicators including gender attitudes, well-being, and economic empowerment.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Individual, separate survey for women and men

    Version

    Version Description

    Edited version with direct identifying variables removed (variables related to names, phone numbers, addresses and GPS coordinates were anonymized).

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The study sample comes from 98 villages or Rwanda’s Eastern Province, 49 of which were randomly selected to receive the treatment. The intervention recruited couples through village savings and loan associations (VSLAs). The Government of Rwanda, in partnership with province and district authorities, selected four districts and eight sectors in Eastern Province with high IPV rates and VSLA concentrations. Within these sectors, 98 villages were selected that had both sufficient VSLAs (minimum 3) and geographic separation to minimize contamination risk between study villages.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Claire Cullen Youth Impact
    Arthur Alik-Lagrange The World Bank
    Muthoni Ngatia
    Julia Vaillant The World Bank

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    VSLA members were invited to sensitization sessions about a group training on “improving family relationships.” Interested couples participated in public lotteries within their VSLAs to determine program eligibility. To apply for the couples training, lottery participants had to meet the following eligibility criteria: i) married or cohabiting for at least 12 months, ii) at least one partner being a VSLA member for at least three months, iii) both partners aged 18 or over, and iv) both partners willing to attend all 22 weekly sessions. Then in all study villages, public VSLA lotteries were used to rank eligible couples from 1 to 30 (the maximum VSLA size). The first 60% of couples from each VSLA lottery were assigned to treatment, stratified by sector and number of lottery applicants.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The survey was developed in English and subsequently translated Kinyarwanda.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2017-11-05 2018-02-05 Baseline
    2019-02-05 2019-03-05 Endline
    Mode of data collection
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
    Data Collection Notes

    Data collection included two rounds of panel surveys. We conducted baseline surveys from November 2017 to February 2018, before the intervention (March–August 2018), and endline surveys six to eight months after completion (February–March 2019).

    All data were collected electronically separately for women and men, on tablets (computer-assisted personal interviewing) equipped with the software SurveyCTO and by gender-matched enumerators. For sensitive outcomes, audio computer-assisted self-interviews (ACASI) were used in order to limit potential under-reporting and preserve confidentiality, using SurveyCTO as well.

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name
    The World Bank Gender Impact Evaluation (AFEGI)

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    Example:
    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation, which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigators ;
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation) ;
    • the survey reference number ;
    • the source and date of download.

    Example:
    Claire Cullen, Arthur Alik-Lagrange, Muthoni Ngatia and Julia Vaillant. The Unintended Impacts of an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda, 2025. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_RWA_2017-2019_IPVIE_v01_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2025-05-19

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (2025-05-19)

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