Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar last week! 🌟 If you missed it or would like a recap, the recording is available here: https://lnkd.in/dhNPeAM3 In this engaging session, experts from GPI and partners explored innovative digital solutions like ParentApp and ParentText, showcasing how technology, research, and collaboration are transforming parenting interventions and capacity-building initiatives globally. 🌍📱 Thank you for your support! #DigitalInterventions #ParentApp #ParentText #CapacityBuilding #ChildWellBeing #GlobalImpact #FamilySupport #ResearchMatters
Global Parenting Initiative
Research Services
Oxford, Oxfordshire 4,016 followers
Research, innovation, and advocacy for the scale-up of evidence-based, playful parenting programmes in the Global South
About us
The Global Parenting Initiative (GPI) is a five-year research-within-implementation project aiming to provide access to free, evidence-based, playful parenting support to promote child learning and prevent violence at scale in the Global South. The Global Parenting Initiative has 6 core themes: 1. Evaluate: Research-within-implementation studies to increase the evidence of the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of human-digital playful parenting programmes 2. Innovate: Build a cohesive ecosystem of agile, adaptable, and scalable evidence-based human-digital parenting interventions, by developing and optimising playful parenting technologies 3. Facilitate: Create centres of excellence in playful parenting in the Global South, and shifting expertise, leadership, and power from the Global North to South 4. Advocate: Create an enabling environment for regional and country-level policymaking to support the sustained institutionalisation of playful parenting programmes 5. Generate: Build a sustainable infrastructure to support scale-up and capacity building of human-digital playful parenting programmes 6. Accelerate: Support the scale-up of low-cost, open-source playful parenting programmes embedded into national government and NGO service delivery systems Our core partners include the University of Oxford, the University of Cape Town, Makerere University, Ateneo de Manila University, McMaster University, the National Institute for Medical Research Tanzania, Stellenbosch University, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Peace Culture Foundation, IDEMS, Clowns Without Borders South Africa, and Parenting for Lifelong Health. The GPI also works closely with UNICEF, the WHO, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, and Early Childhood Development Action Network. The GPI is funded by the LEGO Foundation, Oak Foundation, The Human Safety Net, the World Childhood Foundation, the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund, and UNICEF. GPI@spi.ox.ac.uk
- Industry
- Research Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- Parenting, Research, and Evidence-based Interventions
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Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2ER, GB
Employees at Global Parenting Initiative
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Cindee Bruyns
Research Fellow for Global Parenting Initiative and Lecturer at University of Cape Town
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Lauren-Jayne van Niekerk
Lecturer in Social Development @ University of Cape Town | Male Engagement and Gender Transformative Research Fellow @ Global Parenting Initiative
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Nondumiso Mginywa
Capacity Sharing Lead- Global Parenting Initiative (GPI) - University of Cape Town
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Peter Burr
Experienced Programme Manager | Water and Climate Specialist
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🚨 Join us NOW for an insightful webinar exploring learnings from GPI Innovate's multifaceted approach to impact activation. Join us using this link 🔗: https://lnkd.in/dfxtu_zT See you there!
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Join us this coming Thursday! Don’t miss our last webinar of 2024 on 12 December, where we’ll dive into key learnings from GPI Innovate's multifaceted approach to impact activation. 🗓 Time: 10:30 - 12:30 BST | 12:30 - 13:30 SAST | 13:30 - 14:30 EAT 📍 Location: Online 👉 Learn more about our incredible speakers and register here: https://lnkd.in/dhwVGFbz Be part of the conversation that’s shaping the future of parenting and social impact. #GPIInnovate #ImpactActivation #ParentingForLifelongHealth #SocialImpactTech
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Join us for our last webinar of 2024 on the 12th of December as we explore learnings from GPI Innovate's multifaceted approach to impact activation. ⏰ Time: 10:30 - 12:30 BST | 12:30 - 13:30 SAST | 13:30 - 14:30 EAT 📍Location: Online 📲 Don’t miss out! Read more about our speakers and register here to join the conversation: https://lnkd.in/dhwVGFbz #GPIInnovate #ImpactActivation #ParentingForLifelongHealth #SocialImpactTech
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Discover the heart of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, through their new video showcasing their efforts in research, inspiring teaching, and a vibrant community committed to making a difference. 📚 Hear from students about their transformative experiences in this dynamic department and learn what it truly means to be part of the DSPI family. Don’t miss the Global Parenting Initiative (GPI) mentioned by Francisco Calderón as an example of innovative work driving change for families and communities worldwide.🌍 📽️ Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/eKrg4-Ej #Research #GlobalParentingInitiative #DSPI
👋Welcome to DSPI, where passion for social justice meets world-class education. Watch our new departmental video to find out more about our research, teaching and values. You'll hear from some of our current students about their experiences in the department and what it means to be a part of our community. (Plus don't miss a star cameo from the DSPI dog!) https://lnkd.in/eKrg4-Ej
Student experiences at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention
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🚨 Webinar alert! Join us for our last webinar of 2024 on the 12th of December as we explore learnings from GPI Innovate's multifaceted approach to impact activation. ⏰ Time: 10:30 - 12:30 BST | 12:30 - 13:30 SAST | 13:30 - 14:30 EAT 📍Location: Online Discover the journey of the Global Parenting Initiative (GPI) and its cutting-edge innovate "brick", a dynamic dual approach combining the ParentApp and ParentText technologies. Learn how these innovations, rooted in the same principles but designed for unique needs, are shaping new paradigms in tech development for social impact. 👩💻👨💻 Hear from a panel of young talent, including: - Former Impact activation fellows from IDEMS International - Kenyan partners from INNODEMS - Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) PhD students integrating innovation with research 🔍 Explore insights that may redefine how we approach tech for positive societal change! 📲 Don’t miss out, register here and join the conversation: https://lnkd.in/d-kU_-2h #GPIInnovate #ImpactActivation #ParentingForLifelongHealth #SocialImpactTech
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A new GPI publication highlights the potential value of embedding parenting programmes into existing initiatives to reduce violence in communities. "Reducing family and school-based violence at scale: a large-scale pre-post study of a parenting programme delivered to families with adolescent girls in Tanzania" has just been published in BMJ Global Health. 💪👩👧👦 A huge congratulations to the GPI team Jamie Lachman, Joyce Wamoyi, Qing Han, and partners for this incredible milestone 🙌 🖱️ Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dbhaUxzY #ParentingSupport #PositiveParenting #ParentingForChange #EndingViolence #BMJGlobalHealth
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Are you interested in preventing childhood trauma and fostering healing at any stage of life? 📚 We’re excited to announce the upcoming book release titled ‘Trauma Proof: Healing, Attachment and the Science of Prevention’ by Benjamin Perks, Head of Advocacy at UNICEF and Department associate member. Launching in the UK on 19 December 2024, this visionary book, praised by experts like Bessel van der Kolk and Bruce Perry combines science and storytelling to explore how we can create a safer, healthier future for children and communities worldwide. 🌟 If you’re passionate about child advocacy and meaningful change, this is a must-read! 👉 Pre-order your copy or learn more here: https://bit.ly/3Vb2Owx #TraumaProof #ChildAdvocacy #TraumaPrevention #BookRelease
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Very insightful article in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health by Mark Tomlinson and Jamie Radner reminding us all about the moral and scientific importance of investing in children now instead of only because of their future economic benefits.
My piece with Jamie Radner in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health making the case for the moral imperative of investing in children now and not because at some point in the future they will become producers or customers and fulfill their human capital potential https://lnkd.in/dmgzPwVh
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Exciting new research published by Jamie Lachman and Joyce Wamoyi on the scale-up of Parenting for Lifelong Health's Furaha Teens programme for parents and adolescents in Tanzania! Results demonstrated sustained impacts on reduced violence against adolescent girls when delivered in-person at scale during the pandemic. Findings also showed reduced school-based violence and caregiver experience of intimate partner violence.
Empowering parents with the tools and skills to support health child development and wellbeing while preventing family violence
New paper just published in The BMJ on the scale-up of Parenting for Lifelong Health's programme for parents and adolescents in Tanzania! https://lnkd.in/eNtFjW9p This study is the first to use a non-randomised design to evaluate the pre–post changes of an evidence-based parenting programme delivered at scale as part of routine services in a low-income and middle-income country. Conducted within a broader community-based HIV prevention initiative targeting families with adolescent girls, it significantly contributes to our understanding of how such programmes can reduce VAC—a major factor driving HIV incidence among adolescent girls. Additionally, it highlights the challenges of relying on implementing agencies to collect monitoring and evaluation data during large-scale delivery. Results showing reductions in caregiver-reported and adolescent-reported physical and emotional maltreatment suggest that the programme has sustained impacts beyond initial randomised controlled trial testing. Reported reductions in intimate partner violence by female parents/caregivers and school-based violence by adolescent girls suggest wider potential impacts of a programme primarily focused on parent–child relationships. Congratulations to all who were involved including Pact, Clowns Without Borders South Africa, The Evaluation Fund: Reducing Violence Against Children, National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) - Tanzania, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Joyce Wamoyi, Yulia Shenderovich, Mackenzie Martin, PhD, Nyasha Manjengenja (PhD), Francisco Calderón, and others!