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The problem
Intervention: Women's empowerment (measured through factor analysis score covering dimensions of decision-making, household resources, and freedom of movement)
Who it was tested with: Married women aged 15-49 years and their children aged 36-59 months in 9 sub-Saharan African countries (N=21,434).
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"We pooled data on married women (15 to 49 years) and their children (36 to 59 months) from Demographic and Health Surveys...We assessed the relationship between women's empowerment and child development, growth, early learning, and nutrition using multivariate generalized linear models." The study uses a cross-sectional design examining associations at a single time point across multiple countries, which places it in the PRE_POST tier as it does not involve randomization or longitudinal follow-up of comparison groups.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causation; reverse causality possible; outcome and exposure assessments may have been suboptimal; limited ability to rule out confounding variables
Across countries and designs
1 study · 9 countries
