Child and Adolescent Abuse Prevented

Objective of Strategy: Establish nurturing family relationships, prohibit corporal punishment, reduce harsh parenting practices and create positive parent-child relationships. 

Evidence of impact:

• Promising evidence from LMICs that parenting interventions designed to address IPV and child maltreatment can prevent child maltreatment and reduce violence by young people.
• At least one evaluation from a LMIC has shown a positive impact of curriculum-based rape and dating violence prevention training on intermediate outcomes related to VAW. More evidence is needed on whether this can reduce violence. Evidence is conflicting on whether school-based self-defence interventions can reduce VAG. 
• Evidence from LMICs has shown that home visitation and health worker outreach interventions can impact intermediate outcomes. More evidence is needed on whether these interventions can reduce levels of IPV.
• More evidence is needed in LMICs to measure if psychological support interventions for children who experience violence or witness IPV can help prevent child abuse or future IPV, but there is promising evidence from HICs.