The International Rescue Committee (IRC) partnered with World Vision (WV) to provide the Becoming One (BO) program, a domestic violence focused protection project, to 867 couples in Uganda in 2018-2019. The 12-week faith-based counselling program aimed to reduce violence among couples. An impact study found the project slightly reduced experiences of violence, controlling behaviors, and slightly improved behaviors around consent and communication. This brief explores the cost-effectiveness of the program, given these impacts.

The cost per couple for Becoming One was $183 (2019 USD), including support costs.

Becoming One would have very large cost-effectiveness gains (dropping to as low as $30 per couple) with an increase in scale through additional rounds of implementation utilizing the same faith leaders each round.

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