"People are now working together for a common good": The effect on social capital of participatory design for community-level sanitation infrastructure in urban informal settlements.

ABSTRACT: Communities with higher levels of social capital perform better than communities with lower social capital in community-level water and sanitation interventions and have better health outcomes. Although research recommends bolstering social capital to improve intervention outcomes, few studies provide empirical evidence on the effect of intervention activities on social capital. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of participatory design and community engagement activities on social capital among urban informal settlements in Suva, Fiji and Makassar, Indonesia enrolled in the Revitalizing Informal Settlements and their Environments trial using the Short Adapted Social Capital Assessment Tool. We performed confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) to test tool performance and built structural

SUBMITTER: Salinger AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10759637 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature