Study design
We use two rounds of survey data collected in 28 communities (hereafter, sites) in North and South Kivu provinces, the DRC, as part of a matched-pair, cluster randomized controlled trial conducted between 2016–2018. 30 sites, originally part of the research, were selected in coordination with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the implementing organization, based on their implementation capacity. The sites were then matched based on sociodemographic characteristics, so that within each pair of sites, one site was randomized to either treatment or control arms. Out of these 30 sites, baseline data collection could only be conducted in 28 sites (14 control sites and 14 treatment sites) due to security concerns in the region. More details on the randomized controlled trial can be found in Vaillant et al. [