Faith Leaders and Spouses Contribute to Ending Violence: Thematic Brief for the FCC EVAC Research

This is a thematic brief for the Faith Communities Contribution to Ending Violence against Children Research between World Vision International, Queen Margaret University, and Columbia University. 

Research in Senegal, Uganda, and Guatemala shows strengthening of the protective environment for children in the intervention communities that used Channels of Hope for Child Protection (CoH CP), a project model that seeks to address violence against children by catalysing religious leader's awareness of key child protection issues and mobilising local faith community resources.

This brief shows how the CoH for CP workshops increased opposition to child marriage and corporal punishment, and increased willingness of faith leaders and their spouses to report child abuse.