Parenting
Our guide to key resources to support your workParenting and caregiver support programmes have been identified as a promising strategy to improve family dynamics and prevent violence against children (VAC), including child maltreatment and harsh physical discipline. Moreover, there is emerging evidence that some parenting programmes can contribute to reducing both the experience and perpetration of intimate partner violence. This guide highlights key resources to increase your understanding about parenting programmes that can be used as a platform to prevent VAW and VAC.
- Parenting and Caregiver Support Programmes to Prevent and Respond to Violence in the Home
- Parenting Programmes to Prevent Family Violence: Challenges and Opportunities
- Adaptative Programming: Engaging Absentee Fathers in a Parenting Programme
- Gender Socialisation and Gender Dynamics in Families: The Role of the Home Visitor
- The Bandebereho Facilitator’s Manual
Parenting Programmes
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Evidence Syntheses
A Rigorous Global Evidence Review of Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is preventable. Over the last two decades, VAWG prevention practitioners and researchers have been developing and testing interventions to ...
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Evidence Syntheses
A Rigorous Global Evidence Review of Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is preventable. Over the last two decades, VAWG prevention practitioners and researchers have been developing and testing interventions to ...
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Programme Summaries
The Real Fathers Initiative in Northern Uganda
The Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers programme supported young fathers (aged 16 to 25 years) in Northern Uganda to build the knowledge and skills ...
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Study Summaries
An Evaluation of the Real Fathers Initiative in Uganda
This study (an RCT) evaluated the scale up of the Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative in Acholi and Karamoja Sub Regions in Northern ...
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Evidence Syntheses
Parenting and Caregiver Support Programmes to Prevent and Respond to Violence in the Home
Parenting programmes are interventions or services aimed at improving interactions between parents and their children, as well as knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and practices that affect ...
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Working Papers and Reports
Evaluación de Impacto del Programa P Bolivia (Spanish)
Results of an impact evaluation of the Program P Bolivia intervention which was designed to promote men’s engagement in reproductive and maternal health, caregiving, and ...
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Tools and Guidance
Programa P Bolivia Un Manual Para La Paternidad Activa (Spanish)
The programme manual of the Program P Bolivia intervention which was designed to promote men’s engagement in reproductive and maternal health, caregiving, and healthier couple relations ...
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Training Curricula
Gender Socialisation and Gender Dynamics in Families – The Role of the Home Visitor
This is a training module for practitioners visiting homes, to equip them with knowledge about gender, the impact of gender inequality on children and parental ...
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Programme Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (or “role model”) intervention was based on Program P and part of the global MenCare fatherhood campaign. It aimed to promote positive fatherhood ...
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Study Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (“role model”) intervention, adapted from Program P, aimed to promote positive fatherhood and gender equality amongst expectant fathers and fathers of children under ...
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Programme Summaries
The Real Fathers Initiative in Northern Uganda
The Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers programme supported young fathers (aged 16 to 25 years) in Northern Uganda to...
Study Summaries
An Evaluation of the Real Fathers Initiative in Uganda
This study (an RCT) evaluated the scale up of the Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative in Acholi and...
Evidence Syntheses
Parenting and Caregiver Support Programmes to Prevent and Respond to Violence in the Home
Parenting programmes are interventions or services aimed at improving interactions between parents and their children, as well as knowledge, beliefs,...
Programme Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (or “role model”) intervention was based on Program P and part of the global MenCare fatherhood campaign. It...
Study Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (“role model”) intervention, adapted from Program P, aimed to promote positive fatherhood and gender equality amongst expectant fathers...
Webinars
Parenting Programmes to Prevent Family Violence: Challenges and Opportunities
This webinar includes presentations from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Philippines, sharing experiences designing, managing and evaluating parenting...

Prevention Stories
Adaptative Programming: Engaging Absentee Fathers in a Parenting Programme
The popularity of parenting programmes as a strategy to prevent violence against women and children has soared over the last...

Evidence Syntheses
Parenting and Caregiver Support Programmes to Prevent and Respond to Violence in the Home
Parenting programmes are interventions or services aimed at improving interactions between parents and their children, as well as knowledge, beliefs,...
Study Summaries
An Evaluation of the Real Fathers Initiative in Uganda
This study (an RCT) evaluated the scale up of the Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative in Acholi and...
Study Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (“role model”) intervention, adapted from Program P, aimed to promote positive fatherhood and gender equality amongst expectant fathers...
Webinars
Parenting Programmes to Prevent Family Violence: Challenges and Opportunities
This webinar includes presentations from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Philippines, sharing experiences designing, managing and evaluating parenting...

Programme Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (or “role model”) intervention was based on Program P and part of the global MenCare fatherhood campaign. It...
Prevention Stories
Adaptative Programming: Engaging Absentee Fathers in a Parenting Programme
The popularity of parenting programmes as a strategy to prevent violence against women and children has soared over the last...

Programme Summaries
The Real Fathers Initiative in Northern Uganda
The Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers programme supported young fathers (aged 16 to 25 years) in Northern Uganda to...