ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the findings of a multi-country study on the drivers of violence affecting children, and analyses the way social, cultural, economic, legal, organizational and policy realities interact to shape the violence in children's homes and communities. It also describes the findings of two reviews of parenting education programmes, currently the dominant approach globally for responding to the violence in young children's lives. The chapter focuses specifically on the effectiveness of parenting interventions designed and tested in the global north and then imported for use in countries in the global south. The objective of the community-based child protection approach is to train, support and build on the involvement of a group of local people, most often volunteers, who make up a community child welfare committee. The chapter provides a brief outline of current child protection systems and approaches, and the models that are primarily under consideration for eliminating violence against young children.
