Frontiers in Public Health (Mar 2021)
The Science of Scale for Violence Prevention: A New Agenda for Family Strengthening in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Yulia Shenderovich,
- Yulia Shenderovich,
- Jamie M. Lachman,
- Jamie M. Lachman,
- Catherine L. Ward,
- Inge Wessels,
- Inge Wessels,
- Frances Gardner,
- Mark Tomlinson,
- Mark Tomlinson,
- Daniel Oliver,
- Roselinde Janowski,
- Mackenzie Martin,
- Kufre Okop,
- Hlengiwe Sacolo-Gwebu,
- Lindokuhle L. Ngcobo,
- Zuyi Fang,
- Liane Alampay,
- Adriana Baban,
- Ana A. Baumann,
- Regina Benevides de Barros,
- Samuel Bojo,
- Alexander Butchart,
- Wilmi Dippenaar,
- Amon Exavery,
- Xiangming Fang,
- Ida Ferdinandi,
- Heather M. Foran,
- Nina Heinrichs,
- Judy Hutchings,
- Daisy Kisyombe,
- Greta Massetti,
- Jaromir Mazak,
- Jaromir Mazak,
- Henry Mbuyi,
- Pratibha Singh,
- Kenneth Polsky,
- Sabine Rakotomalala,
- Marija Raleva,
- Richard Savo,
- Lucie Cluver,
- Lucie Cluver
Affiliations
- Yulia Shenderovich
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Yulia Shenderovich
- Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Jamie M. Lachman
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jamie M. Lachman
- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Catherine L. Ward
- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Inge Wessels
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Inge Wessels
- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Frances Gardner
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Mark Tomlinson
- Department of Global Health, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Mark Tomlinson
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queens University, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Daniel Oliver
- Catholic Relief Services, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Roselinde Janowski
- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Mackenzie Martin
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Kufre Okop
- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Hlengiwe Sacolo-Gwebu
- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Lindokuhle L. Ngcobo
- Clowns Without Borders South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
- Zuyi Fang
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Liane Alampay
- Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
- Adriana Baban
- 0Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Ana A. Baumann
- 1Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Regina Benevides de Barros
- 2Division of Global HIV and TB, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Samuel Bojo
- 3Agency for Research and Development Initiative, Juba, South Sudan
- Alexander Butchart
- 4Department of Injury and Violence Prevention, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Wilmi Dippenaar
- 5The Seven Passes Initiative, Wilderness, South Africa
- Amon Exavery
- 6Pact Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Xiangming Fang
- 7School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Ida Ferdinandi
- 8UNICEF Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
- Heather M. Foran
- 9Institute for Psychology, Universitat Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
- Nina Heinrichs
- 0Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Judy Hutchings
- 1School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
- Daisy Kisyombe
- 2Pact Eswatini, Mbabane, Eswatini
- Greta Massetti
- 3Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Jaromir Mazak
- 4Schola Empirica, Prague, Czechia
- Jaromir Mazak
- 5Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
- Henry Mbuyi
- 6Catholic Relief Services DRC, Gombe, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Pratibha Singh
- 7Emmanuel Hospital Association, New Delhi, India
- Kenneth Polsky
- Catholic Relief Services, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Sabine Rakotomalala
- 8Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Marija Raleva
- 9Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, St. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
- Richard Savo
- 0Catholic Relief Services Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Lucie Cluver
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Lucie Cluver
- 1Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.581440
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9
Abstract
Ending all violence against children by 2030 is a core part of Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16. A number of promising violence reduction strategies have been identified in research studies. However, we lack an understanding of the implementation and impact of these programs in respect to their delivery at a large scale or within existing service systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We advocate for greater collaboration between researchers, policymakers, donors, governments, non-governmental organizations, and program managers and staff to study how violence prevention programs operate on a large scale. We describe a new initiative aiming to foster such collaborations in the field of family strengthening programs.
Keywords
- violence—prevention and control
- violence against children and adolescents
- parenting
- implementation science
- parenting (MeSH)
