REAL Fathers
About the Project Intervention
Project Name: “Capacity building and planning for Catalyzing REAL Fathers across Uganda for Early Learning and Play”
Project goal: REAL Fathers is a four-component intervention:
Increase fathers’ ability to use positive parenting techniques with their children.
Develop healthy, gender-equitable relationships with the mothers of their children.
Stop intimate partner violence (IPV).
Project outcomes: Partners in the REAL Fathers consortium and stakeholders (line ministries, district local governments, cultural and religious institutions) have the capacity to implement the REAL-ECD integrated program at scale.
Coverage: Western Uganda; Isingiro, Rubirizi, Mbarara and Ibanda.
Target group: Young fathers (aged 16 to 25 years) and fathers of toddler-aged children (1-3 years). Note: this is a planning and capacity-building grant, so no children will be reached at this stage.
Consortium partners: Four organisations – Somero Uganda, All Nations Child Development Center, World Education-Bantwana, and Forum for African Women Educationalists.
Project Background
The Challenge: Witnessing and experiencing violence:
Impedes children’s healthy development and learning.
Inhibits positive relationships.
Provokes low self-esteem and emotional distress.
Can lead to self-harm and aggressive behavior.