Ending all violence against children by 2030 is a core part of Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16. A number of promising violence reduction strategies have been identified in research studies. However, we lack an understanding of the implementation and impact of these programs in respect to their delivery at a large scale or within existing service systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We advocate for greater collaboration between researchers, policymakers, donors, governments, non-governmental organizations, and program managers and staff to study how violence prevention programs operate on a large scale. We describe a new initiative aiming to foster such collaborations in the field of family strengthening programs.

Agency for Research and Development Initiative Juba South Sudan

Brown School of Social Work Washington University in St Louis St Louis MO United States

Catholic Relief Services Baltimore MD United States

Catholic Relief Services DRC Gombe Democratic Republic of Congo

Catholic Relief Services Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe

Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement School of Social Sciences Cardiff University Cardiff United Kingdom

Clowns Without Borders South Africa Cape Town South Africa

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry St Cyril and Methodius University Skopje Skopje Macedonia

Department of Global Health Institute for Life Course Health Research Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch South Africa

Department of Injury and Violence Prevention World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland

Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa

Department of Psychology Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City Philippines

Department of Psychology Babes Bolyai University Cluj Napoca Romania

Department of Psychology University of Bremen Bremen Germany

Department of Psychology University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa

Department of Social Policy and Intervention University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom

Division of Global HIV and TB Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta GA United States

Division of Violence Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta GA United States

Emmanuel Hospital Association New Delhi India

Faculty of Arts Charles University Prague Czechia

Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland

Institute for Psychology Universitat Klagenfurt Klagenfurt Austria

MRC CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit University of Glasgow Glasgow United Kingdom

Pact Eswatini Mbabane Eswatini

Pact Tanzania Dar es Salaam Tanzania

Schola Empirica Prague Czechia

School of Nursing and Midwifery Queens University Belfast United Kingdom

School of Psychology Bangor University Bangor United Kingdom

School of Public Health Georgia State University Atlanta GA United States

The Seven Passes Initiative Wilderness South Africa

UNICEF Montenegro Podgorica Montenegro

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