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📢 New publication: Building impact through government partnerships in Malaysia We are delighted to share this new paper led by Rumaya Juhari describing the development, evaluation, and scale-up journey of the Naungan Kasih Positive Parenting Program in Malaysia. This article tells the story of how evidence-based parenting support can be embedded within government systems through long-term partnership and co-design. It documents how universities, government agencies, UNICEF, civil society, and international partners have worked together to build a parenting programme designed not just to be effective, but to be sustainable and scalable. Today, Naungan Kasih is being delivered through Malaysia’s public preschool system and is being evaluated through a large cluster randomized controlled trial, while simultaneously building the training, supervision, digital infrastructure, and quality assurance systems needed for national scale-up. This achievement reflects an extraordinary collaboration between Universiti Putra Malaysia, University of Oxford, KEMAS, LPPKN, UNICEF Malaysia, IDEMS International, Malaysian Association of Social Workers, Global Parenting Initiative, and Parenting for Lifelong Health. We are especially grateful to The Human Safety Net and the The LEGO Foundation, whose vision and support have made this journey possible. Congratulations to Rumaya Juhari Frances GardnerHal Cooper Durgesh Rajandiran Laurie Markle Chiara Facciolà David Stern Saskia Blume Jamie Lachman and all our Malaysian colleagues and partners on this important milestone. 🔗 Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/e8bdgR9t #Parenting #ImplementationScience #ScaleUp #GovernmentPartnerships #EarlyChildDevelopment #ViolencePrevention #GlobalHealth #Malaysia #SystemsChange