The Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR) and the  Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa  (IDCPPA) at the University of Cape Town invite you to join us for a lunchtime seminar on 15 October 2024 at 12:45pm. The seminar will be presented by Genevieve Haupt Ronnie.

About the Seminar:

Taking parenting programmes to scale: Findings from the Scale-up of Parenting Evaluations Research Study (SUPER study)

The Scale-up of Parenting Evaluation Research Study or SUPER study explored the conditions necessary to successfully go to scale. This was a mixed methods study, with quantitative analysis of secondary data collected by implementing partners themselves, including baseline and endline questionnaires and attendance registers.

While qualitative data collected consisted of in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. This paper feature the findings from a series of in-depth interviews with stakeholders in four case study countries: South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and the DRC. These stakeholder interviews provide insight into some of the key conditions necessary for the successful implementation of parenting programmes in these contexts. Stakeholders identified a number of conditions for the successful implementation of parenting programmes, including the design of the programme itself (e.g., number of sessions, medium of delivery, etc.); resources attached to the programme implementation (e.g., facilitator remuneration, daily running costs, participant refreshments); and factors external to the programme, such as programme acceptability in the community and competing demands on participants' time.

Factors identified for consideration when scaling-up parenting programmes included ensuring wider stakeholder acceptability and engagement (i.e., stakeholders such as community members, government); the integration of PLH training into existing social and health services; and advocacy. Finally, stakeholders provided several suggestions that may improve the programmes, such as extending training time; providing refresher training to facilitators; increasing facilitator stipend; providing more tangible benefits for participation; manual translation and adaptation; and more support from the in-country commissioning organisation (i.e., administrative support).

Speakers

Genevieve Haupt Ronnie is the Community of Practice Lead for the Global Parenting Initiative (GPI) and a researcher with the Centre for Social Science Researcher at the University of Cape Town. Before joining the GPl, she was a research coordinator in Adolescent Accelerators Research Hub coordinating several research projects including the Scale-up of Parenting Evaluation Research Project (SUPER) where she led on the qualitative research analysis.

 15 October 2024
 12:45 - 14:00 SAST
  CSSR Seminar Room, 4.29 Robert Leslie Social Science Building, UCT

Hosted by the Centre for Social Science Research and the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa