Community-based rehabilitation for people with disabilities

3ie Systematic review summary 4

Valentina Lemmi, Hannah Kuper, Lorna Gibson, K Suresh Kumar, Santosh Rath, Sally Hartley, Gudlavalleti VS Murthy, Vikram Patel, Joerg Weber and Karl Blanchet

This report by Lemmi and colleagues is based on a systematic review that looked at the impact of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) on health, education, livelihoods, social inclusion and empowerment. Most of the studies in the review found CBR to be an effective strategy. CBR also improved the clinical outcomes for people living with disabilities, reduced the burden on care givers and improved overall quality of life. Most of the limited evidence currently available is focussed on adults and the elderly living in Asia. Although CBR is intended as a strategy for people with all types of disabilities, the studies mostly focused on a few physical and mental health conditions and did not include sensory impairments.

Economic self-help group programmes for improving women’s empowerment

Systematic review summary 3ie 2019

This report summarises a systematic review by Brody and colleagues on the impacts of women’s economic self-help groups on their political, economic, social and psychological empowerment.

Promoting handwashing and sanitation behaviour change in low-and middle-income countries

Systematic review summary 3ie 2017

This report summarises a systematic review that examines which promotional approaches are effective in changing handwashing and sanitation behaviour and which implementation factors affect the success or failure of such interventions.

What factors affect sustained adoption of safe water, hygiene and sanitation technologies?

Systematic review summary 3ie 2015

Safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) behaviours, such as treating drinking water, washing hands at key times or using a latrine rather than defecating in open spaces, are cornerstones of building strong, healthy communities and reducing mortality due to diarrhoea and other preventable diseases. Many studies have shown the health benefits of WASH, and factors that affect initial adoption of short-term WASH use. Few have assessed the determinants of long-term, sustained WASH practice.

Identification and measurement of health-related spillovers in impact evaluations

Systematic review summary 3ie 2016

This systematic review summary by Benjamin-Chung and colleagues tries to identify mechanisms that trigger spillover through geographic or social proximity, learning or imitation, norm-shaping, income and substitute effects, general equilibrium effects and relative deprivation.

Supplementary feeding for improving the health of disadvantaged infants and children: what works and why?