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Trial name or title	Community mobilisation and health management committee strengthening to increase birth attendance by trained health workers in rural Makwanpur, Nepal. Trial registration: ISRCTN99834806.
Methods	Cluster‐randomised trial to test the effect on institutional deliveries and home deliveries by trained health workers of a combination of community mobilisation through women’s groups and strengthening of health management committees.
Participants	Women of reproductive age, family members, health service cadres, health management committee members, and communities.
Interventions	Intervention arm: community mobilisation through women’s groups, and health management committee strengthening. Control arm: no intervention. We stratified clusters into 4 groups. Group 1 included control clusters from 2002‐2005, and intervention clusters from 2005 to 2008. Group 2 included intervention clusters from 2001‐2008. In group 3 we monitored birth outcomes from 2005‐2008. In group 4, we had not previously conducted any intervention or monitoring activities. There were equal numbers of clusters from each group allocated to intervention and control clusters.
Outcomes	Primary outcome measures: 1. Deliveries conducted by trained health workers. 2. Institutional deliveries. Secondary outcome measures: 1. ANC uptake. 2. Postnatal care uptake. 3. Neonatal deaths per 1000 live births. 4. Stillbirths per 1000 births. 5. Maternal morbidities.
Starting date	Overall trial start date: 01/10/2010. Overall trial end date: 30/09/2012.
Contact information	Anthony Costello: a.costello@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Notes	The Wellcome Trust funded this study.