Scaling up of parenting support to prevent violence against children in Tanzania: insights from policymakers and service providers.

Background: Evidence shows that parenting behaviours, including the use of violent discipline, can be changed through programmatic interventions. This study seeks to examine how policymakers and service providers in Tanzania perceive the provision of parenting support as a strategy to prevent violence against children and what the enabling and hindering factors are for the scale-up of existing evidence-based parenting supports. It does this by applying Daly's analytical framework for parenting support.

A mapping of parenting support policies worldwide to prevent violence against children.

Background: While recent systematic reviews indicate that parenting interventions reduce negative parenting behaviours, including child maltreatment, only 26 % of governments worldwide indicate that parenting support programs reach all parents in their country.

Objective: This mapping study investigates which countries have a government policy to provide such parenting support aimed at reducing child-directed violence.

Setting: To analyse parenting support within the broad cultural and historical contexts, this study covers all 194 countries and territories worldwide.