One of the first cluster-randomised controlled trials of an intervention to reduce violence from school staff to students. The study also included qualitative research, a process evaluation and economic evaluation.
The study was a collaboration between LSHTM, Raising Voices, UCL-IoE and Makerere University.
One of the most common forms of violence against children in East Africa is physical violence perpetrated by school staff, but no interventions to reduce this violence have been rigorously evaluated for effectiveness. The Good School Toolkit, developed by Ugandan NGO , aims to reduce this and other violence against children in schools. In 2012, Raising Voices approached for assistance to evaluate the impact of the Good School Toolkit in Ugandan primary schools.
From 2012-2015, we conducted the Good Schools Study, which included:
- a cluster randomised controlled trial in 42 Ugandan primary schools
- a qualitative study
- a process evaluation
- an economic evaluation
We showed that the Toolkit reduced past week physical violence from school staff to students by 42%, and improved students’ feelings of well being and connection to schools. The is freely available from Raising Voices.
- Principal Investigator (LSHTM):
- Principal Investigator (Raising Voices):
- Study manager: (LSHTM),
- Lead qualitative researcher: (LSHTM, MRC/UVRI)
- Economist: (LSHTM)
- Statistician: (LSHTM)
- Co-investigators: (Makerere University), (UCL-Institute of Education), (LSHTM), (LSHTM)
- Monitoring and evaluation leads: , Angel Mirembe (Raising Voices)
- Implementation lead: (Raising Voices)
Major Donors
// (Joint Global Health Trials Scheme, MR/L004321/1, to K Devries), , , and (to D Naker)
Resources
News
- – LSHTM blog
- – The Conversation blog