Can transfers and behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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Little is known about whether reductions in intimate partner violence (IPV) from cash transfer programs persist over the longer term. Using a randomized controlled trial design, we show that a program providing poor women in rural Bangladesh with cash or food transfers, alongside nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), led to sustained reductions in IPV 4 years after the program ended. Transfers alone showed no sustained impacts on IPV. Evidence suggests cash and BCC led to more sustained impacts on IPV than food and BCC – through persistent increases in women’s bargaining power, men’s costs of perpetrating violence, and poverty-related emotional well-being.
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gender, behavioural sciences, social protection, sustainability, cash transfers, domestic violence, communication