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In 2008, the Government of the DRC launched a national program known as National Healthy Villages and Schools (in French Villages et Ecoles Assainis, VEA), a water and sanitation program financed by DFID and implemented by UNICEF and the Government of DRC’s Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of Primary, Secondary, and Professional Education. The VEA’s main objectives are to support communities’ improved access to water, hygiene, and sanitation services and practices through the construction of water and sanitation infrastructure in villages and schools, local community involvement, and a village certification mechanism.
This study uses a cluster-level randomized controlled trial to evaluate the causal impact of the VEA program across 332 rural villages. Although VEA has been operational since 2008, the study focused on more recent activities; as the program was implemented in these villages in the later phase of the program (throughout 2019). It involves experimentally varying the provision of the VEA program to a set of villages to examine the causal impacts on water access, infrastructure development, availability of sanitation services, knowledge of hygiene practices, and child health. An earlier paper assesses the short run effects of the program at approximately 5 months post-intervention (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4648/history/64498). This pre-analysis plan pertains to a 12 month and 18 month follow-up surveys, implemented through mobile phone surveying modalities, to measure program effects on mental and physical health and Covid-19 knowledge and prevention.
This pre-analysis plan was written after the authors had analyzed data from the first round of the phone survey, before they had seen any data from the second round of the phone survey. Therefore all pre-specified primary outcomes come from the second round. Data from the second round was collected in November - January 2020-2021, during a period when reported COVID cases were ris |
In 2008, the Government of the DRC launched a national program known as National Healthy Villages and Schools (in French Villages et Ecoles Assainis, VEA), a water and sanitation program financed by DFID and implemented by UNICEF and the Government of DRC’s Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of Primary, Secondary, and Professional Education. The VEA’s main objectives are to support communities’ improved access to water, hygiene, and sanitation services and practices through the construction of water and sanitation infrastructure in villages and schools, local community involvement, and a village certification mechanism.
This study uses a cluster-level randomized controlled trial to evaluate the causal impact of the VEA program across 332 rural villages. Although VEA has been operational since 2008, the study focused on more recent activities; as the program was implemented in these villages in the later phase of the program (throughout 2019). It involves experimentally varying the provision of the VEA program to a set of villages to examine the causal impacts on water access, infrastructure development, availability of sanitation services, knowledge of hygiene practices, and child health. An earlier paper assesses the short run effects of the program at approximately 5 months post-intervention (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4648/history/64498). This pre-analysis plan pertains to a 12, 18, and 24 month follow-up surveys, implemented through mobile phone surveying modalities, to measure program effects on mental and physical health, Covid-19 knowledge and prevention, and governance.
This pre-analysis plan was revised after the authors had analyzed data from the first and second round of the phone survey, before they had seen any data from the third round of the phone survey. Data from the third round was collected in June – July 2021, during a period when reported COVID cases were rising to their highest levels to date in DRC. |
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10/07/2021 |
We added a round of data collection. |
31 Jan 2021 |
31 Jul 2021 |
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Primary Outcome, Vaccine acceptance. If a vaccine for COVID-19 becomes available to you, would you take it?, June-July 2021 |
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Primary Outcome, Covid-like illness. Number of household members in past week with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing/shortness of breath, or fatigue, Nov 2020-Jan 2021 |
Primary Outcome, Covid-like illness. Number of household members in past week with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing/shortness of breath, or fatigue, Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
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Primary Outcome, Non-Covid illness. Number of sick household members in last seven days [exclude those with Covid symptoms] , Nov 2020-Jan 2021 |
Primary Outcome, Non-Covid illness. Number of sick household members in last seven days [exclude those with Covid symptoms] , Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
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Primary Outcome, Child health index. Summary index of proportion of children under five with fever/cough/diarrhea in last two weeks [this will be three separate numbers for each HH with children under 5], Nov 2020-Jan 2021 |
Primary Outcome, Child health index. Summary index of proportion of children under five with fever/cough/diarrhea in last two weeks [this will be three separate numbers for each HH with children under 5], Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
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Secondary Outcome, Livelihoods. Summary index of responses to:
A27.a In the past week, how many hours have you spent working on an income generating activity?
A27.c In the past week, how many hours has your spouse/partner spent working on an income generating activity for your household? [if applicable]
A27.d Has anyone in your household (including you) lost their job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began? [negatively coded]
A27.e Have you or anyone in your household gained a new job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began?
A27.f Think of the income you earned each month before the coronavirus pandemic began. How does that compare to the income you are earning now?
, Nov 2020-Jan 2021 |
Secondary Outcome, Livelihoods. Summary index of responses to:
A27.a In the past week, how many hours have you spent working on an income generating activity?
A27.c In the past week, how many hours has your spouse/partner spent working on an income generating activity for your household? [if applicable]
A27.d Has anyone in your household (including you) lost their job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began? [negatively coded]
A27.e Have you or anyone in your household gained a new job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began?
A27.f Think of the income you earned each month before the coronavirus pandemic began. How does that compare to the income you are earning now?
, Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
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Secondary Outcome, Food security. In the last seven days, how many days (out of 7) did you lack enough food to eat?
, May-July 2020 and Nov 2020-Jan 2021 |
Secondary Outcome, Food security. In the last seven days, how many days (out of 7) did you lack enough food to eat?
, May-July 2020, Nov 2020-Jan 2021, June-July 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
Additional data collection |
Secondary Outcome, Hospital visits. Number of household members who visited hospital in last seven days, May-July 2020 and Nov 2020-Jan 2021 |
Secondary Outcome, Hospital visits. Number of household members who visited hospital in last seven days, May-July 2020, Nov 2020-Jan 2021, and June-July 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
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Secondary Outcome, Approval of authorities. 10 outcomes. Do you approve or disapprove of the way that the following people have performed their jobs over the past twelve months, or haven’t you heard enough about them to say?
1. President
2. National Assembly
3. Ministry of Health
4. Provincial Government
5. International NGOs
6. Local NGOs
7. Traditional leaders
8. Health zone officials
9. Health area officials
10. Village chief, June-July 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
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Secondary Outcome, Leader vaccine acceptance. In village leader survey: If a vaccine for COVID-19 becomes available to you, would you take it?
, June-July 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
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Secondary Outcome, Leader vaccine advice. In village leader survey: Will you advise the people in your village to take the Covid vaccine?
, June-July 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
Additional data collection |
Primary Outcome, Covid-like illness. Number of household members in past week with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing/shortness of breath, or fatigue, Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
Primary Outcome, Covid-like illness. Number of household members in past week with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing/shortness of breath, or fatigue, Nov 2020-Jan 2021 and June-Jul 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
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Primary Outcome, Non-Covid illness. Number of sick household members in last seven days [exclude those with Covid symptoms] , Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
Primary Outcome, Non-Covid illness. Number of sick household members in last seven days [exclude those with Covid symptoms] , Nov 2020-Jan 2021 and June-Jul 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
Additional data collection |
Primary Outcome, Child health index. Summary index of proportion of children under five with fever/cough/diarrhea in last two weeks [this will be three separate numbers for each HH with children under 5], Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
Primary Outcome, Child health index. Summary index of proportion of children under five with fever/cough/diarrhea in last two weeks [this will be three separate numbers for each HH with children under 5], Nov 2020-Jan 2021 and June-Jul 2021 |
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10/07/2021 |
Additional data collection |
Secondary Outcome, Livelihoods. Summary index of responses to:
A27.a In the past week, how many hours have you spent working on an income generating activity?
A27.c In the past week, how many hours has your spouse/partner spent working on an income generating activity for your household? [if applicable]
A27.d Has anyone in your household (including you) lost their job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began? [negatively coded]
A27.e Have you or anyone in your household gained a new job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began?
A27.f Think of the income you earned each month before the coronavirus pandemic began. How does that compare to the income you are earning now?
, Nov 2020-Jul 2021 |
Secondary Outcome, Livelihoods. Summary index of responses to:
A27.a In the past week, how many hours have you spent working on an income generating activity?
A27.c In the past week, how many hours has your spouse/partner spent working on an income generating activity for your household? [if applicable]
A27.d Has anyone in your household (including you) lost their job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began? [negatively coded]
A27.e Have you or anyone in your household gained a new job (or main source of income) since the coronavirus pandemic began?
A27.f Think of the income you earned each month before the coronavirus pandemic began. How does that compare to the income you are earning now?
, Nov 2020-Jan 2021 and June-Jul 2021 |
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02/08/2021 |
Uploaded pre-analysis plan for phone surveys to the AEA registry |
https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4648/history/64498 |
https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4648 |