Evidence

Evidence on children's well-being, problem first.

Every finding is tied to a defined problem for children, the intervention that claims to solve it, and its type of design. Open any card to compare the same intervention across countries.

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Survival

Problem

Stunting among children under five, with cadres' limited knowledge of B2SA food patterns and local food processing hindering supplementary feeding (PMT)

Intervention: Training of Posyandu cadres through outreach, training sessions, hands-on practice, monitoring and evaluation on stunting, B2SA, local food use and food processing for PMT
Population: Cadres of Posyandu Matahari, Purwokerto Wetan Village, Indonesia (sample size not stated in the abstract)

Key finding

Stunting knowledge: 80% to 90%

Pre/post

Fransisca et al. · OpenAlex · 6 Oct 2026

Survival

Problem

Weak rooting-sucking reflex in low birth weight infants, who are at greater risk of undernutrition

Intervention: Oral stimulation with one finger for 5 minutes followed by 1 minute of breastfeeding, given twice daily for 14 days
Population: 25 infants diagnosed with low birth weight (most preterm), compared with a control group receiving standard NICU procedures

Key finding

The sucking reflex improved significantly in the intervention group (P<0.001).

Experimental

Hanum et al. · OpenAlex · 6 Oct 2026

Protection

Problem

Risk of child marriage among adolescents, addressed through low reproductive health information, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors

Intervention: A peer educator program focused on reproductive health for the prevention of child marriage
Population: 70 students at SMA Negeri 13 Makassar, Indonesia (35 intervention, 35 control)

Key finding

Scores changed from pretest to posttest according to paired t-tests.

Experimental

Kalsum et al. · OpenAlex · 7 Oct 2026

ProtectionDevelopment

Problem

Co-occurring violence against women and violence against children in families

Intervention: Co-parenting Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens, a version of Parenting for Lifelong Health Teen adapted to focus on preventing violence against women and engaging fathers
Population: 50 families (parents and teens) in rural Manicaland, Zimbabwe

Key finding

Significant reductions in reported physical intimate partner violence, co-parenting struggles, harsh parenting, parenting stress and teen behaviour problems

Pre/post

Davidson et al. · Crossref · 6 Jul 2026

Development

Problem

Uncertain benefit of primary-school physical education for children's psychological and social-emotional outcomes

Intervention: Primary-school physical education interventions
Population: Primary-school children in 70 trial families (74 reports), English-language reports published January 2000 to 31 May 2026

Key finding

Core social-emotional effects (5 effects, 3 families): g = 0.947, 95% CI [−0.774, 2.667], Holm-adjusted p = 0.424, with a prediction interval of [−2.387, 4.280].

Experimental

Li et al. · OpenAlex · 7 Oct 2026

Development

Problem

Limited behavioural self-regulation in primary school children, which is linked to academic performance

Intervention: A 10-month school-based physical activity intervention (Active School study)
Population: 435 students aged 9–10 years in five intervention schools and four control schools in Norway

Key finding

No significant improvements in behavioural self-regulation compared with the control group.

Experimental

Kvalø et al. · OpenAlex · 7 Oct 2026

Protection

Problem

Violence against women and children, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

Intervention: Edutainment (entertainment-based media and education) to change violence-related attitudes, norms and behaviours
Population: Women, children and wider audiences in 21 evaluated edutainment programmes; the countries are not stated in the abstract

Key finding

71% of 21 studies show increases in anti-violence attitudes and norms.

Practitioner

Peterman · Crossref · 1 Jan 2024

Protection

Problem

Low awareness of domestic violence and low sensitivity to violence against children among university students, who are future professionals and parents

Intervention: An elective university course titled "Violence Against Children and Its Prevention"
Population: 81 university students (mostly second-year undergraduates, average age 21.1) at a state university in the Mediterranean region

Key finding

Domestic violence awareness scores rose significantly after the course (p<0.05).

Pre/post

Uslu et al. · Crossref · 18 Dec 2024

DevelopmentProtection

Problem

Secondary school drop-out and child marriage among rural, marginalised adolescent girls

Intervention: Samata, a multi-level, structural and norms-based intervention to keep girls in secondary school and delay marriage
Population: Scheduled-caste/scheduled-tribe girls aged 12-13 in the final year of primary school in 80 village clusters in Vijayapura and Bagalkote districts, Karnataka, India

Key finding

Secondary school non-completion: control 24.9% vs intervention 25.4%, no difference between arms.

Experimental

Prakash et al. · Crossref · 1 Jan 2018

Protection

Problem

Child marriage driven by harmful gender and social norms, and the limited empowerment of adolescent girls

Intervention: Programmes designed to shift social norms in order to prevent or delay child marriage or limit its harmful consequences, as reviewed across 12 studies
Population: Adolescent girls and their communities in the 12 included studies (settings not stated in the abstract)

Key finding

Little evidence of a systematic relationship between social norms related to marriage and changes in child marriage behaviours.

Experimental

Greene et al. · Crossref · 1 Jan 2024

Protection

Problem

Adolescents' limited knowledge about child marriage and its harms

Intervention: Educational 'marriage readiness cards' used with adolescents at a health post to build knowledge about child marriage
Population: 36 adolescents at the adolescent health post in the Pantoloan Community Health Center area

Key finding

Adolescent knowledge improved significantly after the intervention.

Practitioner

Sakti et al. · Crossref · 31 Dec 2023

Protection

Problem

Child marriage, and its links to adolescent childbearing, domestic violence and low economic prospects for girls and young women in Mexico

Intervention: A 2014 reform of the Federal Civil Code that set the minimum legal marriage age at 18 with no exceptions
Population: Girls and women exposed and not exposed to the 2014 reform, analysed by municipality in Mexico, with municipalities grouped by prior prevalence of child marriage

Key finding

Adolescent births fell more in municipalities with high prior child marriage prevalence.

Experimental

Campos · Crossref · 1 Jan 2026

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