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Parenting for Respectability

Program

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About Us

Parenting for Respectability is a community based
parenting training programme that aims to help parents learn skills and attitudes to bring up their children to be bright, happy, and healthy and well
behaved, which is the hallmark of family respectability in many Ugandan societies. The programme is a 16 session parenting programme, with a core of 9 single sex and 7 mixed sex group sessions led in a semi-participatory way by a trained facilitator.

PfR is an accessible package of interrelated components that is set out in a 21 session manual to address various aspects of SGBV and parent-child relationships (refer to the earlier section above for an outline of programme). Weekly, 2-3 hr sessions are conducted for both sexes through a participatory approach using reflection groups, posters, pictures and practical skills-focused homework practice exercises. The programme starts in single sex groups but midway they are mixed and encouraged to address conflicting gendered perceptions of parenting. Observations are recorded for each session, and a report written immediately.

PfR Objectives

  • Most parents hope that their children will row up to be bright, happy, healthy, well behaved and successful in life. These things are all influenced by parents’ behaviour towards their children.
  •  Research in both high income countries and in Africa shows that the way parents bring up their children (parenting) influences their children’s development, behaviour and wellbeing.  Read More

PfR in Practice

The programme draws on pre-existing motivations in families: parents’ concern for family respectability, largely achieved through children’s good behaviour and respect for parents.

PFR is intended to operate primarily at the interpersonal level, between parental care givers and their children. It is also intended to work at the community level, through engaging formal and informal opinion leaders, involving participants’ neighbours and families in homework exercises, and through community events, thus changing community norms. Ideally it is complemented by other on-going and/or future interventions in Uganda at a macro level, which address the structural context and determinants of SGBV such as poverty and socio-economic inequalities.

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