Over the past decade there have been increasing calls for the scale-up of evidence-based interventions in order to reduce the risk of violence against children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) [1]. In particular, parenting programmes for families with young children have been shown to be effective in reducing the risk of child maltreatment and improving child wellbeing with promising evidence emerging from low- and middle-income countries [2-4]. These group-based programmes typically aim to strengthen caregiver-child relationships through positive parenting and to help parents to manage child behaviour problems through effective, age-appropriate, nonviolent discipline strategies.