Transforming Households with Refraction and Innovative Financial Technology (THRIFT): A randomised controlled trial (RCT) on the impact of free reading glasses to support use of smartphone banking in Bangladesh among government Old Age Allowance (OAA)/Widow Allowance (WA) beneficiaries
CoE-SISU
Year: 2022
- 2014
IRB Number: IRB-21 August'22-028
Organaisation: BRAC JPGSPH
PI:
Professor Nathan Congdon
Professor Atonu Rabbani
Co PI: Mrittika Barua, PhD
Coordinator: Sharmin Akter Shitol
Objective:The primary objective of the THRIFT trial is to assess whether the combined complementary intervention of providing free eyeglasses and basic digital financial services training in the use of mobile phones and the THRIFT app (a module locally developed to capture digital financial
transactions) to recipients of government OAA and WA safety-net payments can lead to greater financial inclusion and improved quality of life, evaluated by a randomised controlled trial (RCT).
Methodology: Qualitative method
Donor: Wellcome Trust
Partner: Queen’s University Belfast (primary)
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