Participatory Women's Groups and Neonatal Mortality Reduction - down 32%

Community mobilisation through participatory women's groups in poor rural and highly tribal areas had the following direct impact:

Neonatal mortality was 32% lower in intervention clusters adjusted for clustering, stratification, and baseline differences.

Jharkhand and Orissa, India

Cluster-randomised controlled trial baseline - monitoring outcomes for 19,030 births during 3 years

The Lancet, 2010

Summary at this link