Benefits to Participants. Community members who consent to participate in the study will be compensated for their time, efforts and discomfort, including, having their activities observed, adhering to research protocols and the discomfort suffered by children during L:M tests. Compensation will include ready referrals and treatment of study participants identified with medical conditions during regular monitoring and project interventions. In addition, each of the households will be compensated in cash in lieu of lost daily wage. Communities where interventions take place will benefit from project interventions such as nutrition, WASH and women’s empowerment education and behavior change interventions. In addition, study outcomes would be shared with participating communities and local government administrators to inform polity and allocation of resources. Finally, participants from the control area will benefit from the scale up of the most effective interventions (proven through this study) in Phase 3 of the project.
Benefits to Participants
