Malezi Na Kilimo Bora - Skilful Parenting and Agribusiness Child Abuse Prevention Study

Summary

The Malezi ne Kilimo Bora ("Good Parenting and Farming" in Kiswahili) Skilful Parenting and Agribusiness Child Abuse Prevention Study is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, University of Glasgow, and the Tanzania National Medical Research Institute (NIMR). It is pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) of a community-based intervention implemented by Investing in Children and Our Societies (ICS), an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with extensive experience operating in rural Tanzania. The overall focus of the project is to evaluate ICS's agribusiness and skilful parenting programmes' impact on the prevention of child maltreatment and improvement of child and family psychosocial and economic wellbeing (n = 8 villages, n = 16 farmer groups, n = 240 families).

Conditions

• Child Abuse
• Parenting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Skilful Parenting

Skilful Parenting is a 2-week group-based parenting intervention delivered by Investing in Children and Our Societies to caregivers who are members of farmer groups in participating villages. It reinforces positive parenting practices, empowering parents to address the challenges that they face in bringing up their children. The intervention helps create parent peer groups to share ideas, support, information, and resources in the community. The intervention involves weekly sessions with farmer groups, awareness raising amongst local authorities and communities, and the establishment of parent peer groups. Topics consist of the following issues related to parenting: roles and responsibilities; family relations; communication; values; positive discipline; child protection; and family budgeting.

OTHER

Agrics

Agrics provides smallholder farmers, organized in farmer groups, with access to farm inputs on a credit basis, and agricultural extension and advisory services to improve farming techniques and improve market connections. These services include an intensive intervention during planting season and then ongoing support after the initial 3-month intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Tanzanian National Institute of Medical Research

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Glasgow

  collaborator OTHER

• Investing in Children and Our Societies

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• UBS Optimus Fund

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Oxford

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Frances Gardner, DPhil · University of Oxford

• Joyce Wamoyi, PhD · Tanzania National Institute of Medical Research

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-08-01

Primary Completion

2016-12-31

Completion

2017-03-01

Countries

• Tanzania

Study Locations