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Stepping Stones and Creating Futures — Cluster-RCT-Evaluated Violence Prevention in Durban's Informal Settlements

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Evidence: Randomised controlled trial Top 33% 78/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

A cluster-randomised trial of 1,357 young people in Durban's informal settlements found men in a gender-transformative livelihoods programme reported significantly less physical (aOR 0.71) IPV perpetration two years on — though women's own reported victimisation did not fall.

aOR 0.71 (95% CI 0.51–0.97)
Physical IPV perpetration (24-month follow-up)
aOR 0.70 (95% CI 0.52–0.94)
Severe IPV perpetration (24-month follow-up)
aOR 0.65 (95% CI 0.44–0.97)
Economic IPV perpetration (24-month follow-up)
1,357 (680 women, 677 men) across 34 clusters
Trial participants
Stepping Stones and Creating Futures — Cluster-RCT-Evaluated Violence Prevention in Durban's Informal Settlements

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
eThekwini Municipality partners / South African Medical Research Council researchers, funded by UK DFID
Period
2015–2018
Keywords
gender-based violence, youth livelihoods, HIV prevention, academic research

Context

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures combines a 10-session gender/communication/violence curriculum with an 11-session livelihoods and financial-management curriculum, delivered to single-sex groups of young men and women aged 18-30 in Durban's informal settlements.

Results

A cluster-randomised controlled trial of 1,357 participants across 34 clusters found men in the intervention arm reported significantly less past-year physical (aOR 0.71), severe (aOR 0.70) and economic (aOR 0.65) intimate-partner-violence perpetration at 24-month follow-up than the control arm, though women's own reported victimisation did not fall significantly.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
trained group facilitators for both curricula

Conditions for success

  • combining a gender-transformative curriculum with a livelihoods/financial-management curriculum rather than delivering either alone
  • delivering to single-sex groups of young men and women separately

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