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The problem
Intervention: Sugira Muryango, a home-visiting-based early childhood development program teaching caregivers communication skills, positive parenting techniques, and engaging fathers in childcare
Who it was tested with: Socioeconomically vulnerable families with children aged 6 to 36 months in rural Rwanda; 931 caregivers (52.6% female) analyzed quantitatively.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Through Sugira Muryango, caregivers learned that strong relationships between partners and engagement of male caregivers in child care has positive impacts on children's development. Techniques taught by community lay workers improved communication, promoted positive parent-child interactions, and reduced intimate partner violence and violent discipline." The cluster-randomized design with both qualitative and quantitative data strengthens causal inference about intervention mechanisms.
Specific effect sizes and magnitudes of violence reduction not clearly reported; the marginal association with reduced female victimization suggests this outcome may be less robust; no information on follow-up duration or sustainability
Across countries and designs
7 studies · 4 countries
