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The problem
Intervention: Savings-led family economic empowerment intervention with matched savings incentives delivered at household level
Who it was tested with: 1,383 AIDS-orphaned adolescents in Uganda; 55% female, 20% double orphans, mean age 12 years at baseline.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Intent-to-treat analyses using multilevel models compared the effects of two savings-led treatment arms: Bridges (1:1 matched incentive) and BridgesPLUS (2:1 matched incentive) to a usual care control group on the following outcomes: self-rated health, sexual health, and mental health functioning." This randomised controlled trial with 48-month follow-up provides robust evidence of intervention efficacy using intent-to-treat analysis.
Study design and population characteristics limit generalisability beyond AIDS-orphaned adolescents in Uganda. Mechanism of action through which savings incentives improve these outcomes is not explored.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
