Preventing violence in classrooms in Haiti and Pakistan
Although teacher violence at schools is a serious problem in Haiti, there is a lack of systematic evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions in reducing teacher violence in this low-income country. This project seeks to test the effectiveness of the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T), aiming to reduce teachers’ use of violent disciplinary strategies and to improve their interaction competences with children in the Haitian context. The study is designed as a two-arm matched cluster randomized controlled trial. The sample consists of 468 teachers and 1,008 children from 36 (community and public) primary schools around Cap-Haïtien (Département du Nord) in Haiti. Data will be collected in three phases, before the intervention, and 6 and 18 months after.