Training Local Leaders to Prevent and Reduce Domestic Violence Evidence From Peru

The Household Treatment (HT) followed a door-to-door delivery approach: CHVs, in coordination with the local Women Emergency Center (CEM), offered 8 treatment sessions to households in the targeted sample. The sessions took place over a period of 1 to 2 months at the residences of the female participants. This intervention was subject to a second-stage randomization to include edutainment videos in its implementation for the HT only treatment arm. In 31 randomly selected HT villages, all targeted households watched the edutainment component as part of the HT program, and in the other 31 HT villages, only 50% of the targeted households were randomly assigned to watch the edutainment component.

The group-based approach (Group Treatment, or GT) entailed 4 workshops involving various activities and group discussions. The group sessions directed at men had a slightly different curriculum than those directed at women, and always had at least one male CHV in the room facilitating the session. GT sessions took place over one month in each community in village community centers, schools, churches, or other communal spaces where village residents would often gather, and lasted for approximately two hours. The edutainment component was screened in every GT workshop.