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Transform + Family Academy Randomized Controlled Trial in the Philippines
Sponsor: International Care Ministries, Philippines
Summary
This study evaluates the integration of two complementary poverty alleviation programs: Compassion International's (CI) child-focused Survival and Early Childhood Program with International Care Ministries' (ICM) household-level Transform + Family Academy intervention. CI's program provides holistic child development through health support, educational programming, social development, and spiritual formation via local church partners for children aged 3-5 years. ICM's Transform + Family Academy combines a 15-week household intervention targeting health education, livelihood training, and values formation with an 8-week early childhood education component delivered through home visits. The primary aim of this research is to assess whether integrating household-level interventions with child-focused programming enhances early numeracy and literacy outcomes among children aged 3-5 living in extreme poverty in Western and Southern Mindanao, Philippines. The study also examines the intervention's impact on children's nutritional status and household financial resilience, including savings behaviors and access to social safety nets. The investigators hypothesize that addressing household-level constraints including caregiver capacity, health, and economic challenges will enhance children's academic and nutritional outcomes alongside household financial resilience compared to child-focused programming alone.
Official title: Integration of Household-Based Interventions With Early Childhood Programming: A Randomized Controlled Trial in the Philippines
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
3 Years - 5 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
700
Start Date
2025-11-01
Completion Date
2027-05-30
Last Updated
2025-10-08
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Integrated Whole-Household Programming
Treatment participants receive both Compassion International's Survival and Early Childhood Program (holistic child development through health support, educational programming, social development, and spiritual formation via local community partners) plus International Care Ministries' Transform + Family Academy intervention. The Transform component is a 15-week household-level program including health education covering malnutrition prevention, sanitation, respiratory infections, infant care; livelihood training focused on income diversification and business development with savings group formation; and values formation addressing personal character, family relationships, and decision-making. The Family Academy component provides home-based early numeracy and phonics instruction (one hour per topic) to children aged 3-5 with concurrent caregiver capacity building for school readiness support, delivered over 8 weeks.
Standard Child-Focused Programming
Compassion International's Survival and Early Childhood Program provides holistic child development through health support, nutritional assistance, educational programming, social development, and spiritual formation delivered via local community partners.