Results
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All baseline key respondents participated in follow-up interviews, and 46 interviews were conducted in intervention and control groups. The inter-rater reliability among scorers was moderate to high (baseline and follow-up scores by dimensions: 1) Existing community efforts = 0.74, 0.78; 2) Community knowledge of efforts = 0.71, 0.78; 3) Leadership = 0.81, 0.85; 4) Community climate = 0.84, 0.87; 5) Community knowledge of the issue = 0.69, 0.73; 6) Available resources = 0.72; 0.79; all Table Socio-demographic characteristics of the interviewed key informants across intervention and control sites (The fidelity assessment results revealed that nearly 81% of scheduled activities had been performed with medium quality (score: 3.5 from 5). The results showed that, compared with the boys’ schools, girls’ schools had more adherence (85% vs. 78%) and higher quality of performance (score: 3.8 vs. 3.2) (Additional file 