Target population
Adult men, aged 18 years and older, were eligible to participate in the study. Additional inclusion criteria included having lived in the community for at least six months with plans to continue living there for at least an additional six months, ability to actively participate in the group, non-involvement with an ongoing evaluation of adolescent girl programming that was operational in some sites, and committing to not perpetrate violence for the duration of the intervention. Female partners of men were also interviewed if they were above 15 years of age.