MAISHA Female Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Intervention (Tanzania)
Problems addressed
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Where the program was applied
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Description

This is a microfinancing intervention implemented by non-profit organizations, universities, and community leaders for groups of women with the aim of empowering them and preventing physical and sexual intimate partner violence, as well as preventing the acceptability and tolerance of violence, and promoting an improvement in the attitude and beliefs related to domestic violence.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation study showed positive effects in terms of reducing physical or sexual intimate partner violence, or both, upon analyzing 919 women, although the effect was greater for physical violence [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Kapiga, S., Harvey, S., Mshana, G., Hansen, C. H., Mtolela, G. J., Madaha, F., Hashim, R., Kapinga, I., Mosha, N., Abramsky, T., Lees, S. & Watts, C. (2019). A social empowerment intervention to prevent intimate partner violence against women in a microfinance scheme in Tanzania: findings from the MAISHA cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Global Health, 7(10), e1423-e1434. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30316-X

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