Parenting Programmes to Reduce Violence Against Children and Women
Brief series
Highlights
While reducing children’s exposure to violence in the family requires working with individuals and families, communities, services, and systems to change attitudes, behaviours, and norms, this four-part evidence brief series intentionally highlights parenting programmes. In many communities, parenting programmes are already reaching parents and caregivers. Evidence suggests these programmes can be strengthened to reduce violence against both children and women and to promote gender equality, in addition to enhancing parenting and child outcomes.
The briefs of this Parenting Programmes to Reduce Violence Against Children and Women series offer insights into how violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW) often co-occur in families and distills the evidence supporting the potential that parenting programmes designed to prevent violence and promote nurturing environments for children, can also help reduce other forms of violence in the family.
We invite you to explore all four briefs:
- Brief 1: Why it is important
- Brief 2: What gender-transformative programmes look like
- Brief 3: How to adapt programmes to address both types of violence
- Brief 4: How to measure change
We also invite you to explore and use Parenting Programmes to Prevent Violence and Advance Gender Equality: A Tool to Identify Opportunities for Strengthening and Integration which was designed to support organizations to review their existing programme and identify entry-points to strengthen gender equality promotion and violence prevention.
The tool focuses specifically on opportunities for parenting programmes to promote gender equality, healthy couple relations and violence prevention –thus it does not cover all aspects of programme design or delivery. The tool is designed primarily for parenting programmes delivered in person but may be used to assess digital or hybrid programmes. The tool is relevant for programmes at any stage of implementation. If you are working to scale your programme, it will be important to consider changes that can strengthen your programme impact and be feasible and cost-effective at scale. Both a pdf and word format are provided to facilitate use.
