Enhanced women's decision-making power after the Suchana intervention in north-eastern Bangladesh: a cluster randomised pre-post study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Women's decision-making power is a dimension of empowerment and is crucial for better physical and psychosocial outcomes of mothers. Suchana, a large-scale development programme in Bangladesh, actively provided social interventions on behaviour change communication to empower women belonging to the poorest social segment. This paper aims to assess the impact of the Suchana intervention on various indicators related to women's decision-making power.

Design, setting and participants

The evaluation design was a cluster randomised pre-post design with two cross-sectional surveys conducted among beneficiary women with at least one child aged <23 months from randomly selected poor or very poor beneficiary households in Sylhet division.

Outcome measure</

SUBMITTER: Haque MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352997 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature