Sugira Muryango (Strong Families)

We propose to use the Collaborative Team Approach (CTA) to spread the practice of the Sugira Muryango home-visiting program, an evidence-based intervention that offers active coaching of caregivers by lay-workers from the community trained in the intervention to promote early stimulation, play, nutrition, hygiene, non-violent discipline and responsive parenting, across the Nyanza district of Rwanda. This proposal seeks to leverage potential funding from the Grand Challenges Canada Saving Brains initiative to explore the feasibility of the CTA model, an innovative implementation science strategy, to scale-up the delivery of Sugira Muryango as well as to develop in-country management and monitoring and evaluation capacity. The CTA model will utilize a Seed Team of experts, embedded at the district level and attached to existing government structures, to roll out expansion of Sugira Muryango to Ubudehe 1 families in Nyanza with children in the home ages 6-36 months.