The impact
the impact
The specific goal of the Ritu programme was the improved health and well-being of girls in Bangladesh. With the randomised controlled trial, Simavi, BNPS, and DORP worked with Maastricht University to measure the effects of the direct interventions in schools and communities in Netrokona on general health and well-being, and more specifically well-being during menstruation of girls in Netrokona.
Overall health and well-being The Ritu programme, as well as the interventions in Netrokona, specifically focused on health and well-being during menstruation. In our ToC development, we assumed that this would have an effect on overall health and well-being. We measured overall health and well-being through a mental health index and a subjective well-being
index. The RCT did not show any significant treatment effect on these indexes of either interventions package. It worth mentioning that a topic such as general well-being might be difficult to self-report on by young girls. At the same time, baseline levels of self-reported well-being were already high in the control group. Note: In this report we only publish a selection
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