WSA core components—training and activity summary
| Component | Target stakeholders | Training content | Number of modules | Who conducts the training | Delivery mode and duration |
| School leadership support and training | School administrators Board of management Parent teacher associations | Lunch and Learn training guide Value-based life skills manual | 5 13 | ICS-SP staff | School lunch breaks KE: Five 1 hour sessions over 5 consecutive days TZ: Six 2–3 hour sessions spread across 6 weeks |
| Teacher and support staff training and skills development staff | Teachers and non-teaching school staff | Lunch and learn training guide Value-based life skills education manual | 5 13 | ICS-SP staff | School lunch breaks KE: Five 1 hour sessions over 5 days TZ: Six 2–3 hour sessions over 6 weeks |
| Life skills and values education for learners | Primary school students through children’s clubs | Value-based Life skills education curriculum | 13 | ICS-SP staff - trains mentors and teachers KE: Mentors—train children TZ: Teachers—train children | Schools Safe spaces community level Child parliaments KE: 5 days for mentors TZ: 13–16 weeks for pupils (flexible depends on school capacity) |
| Parents and caregiver engagement and training | Parents/caregivers | Skillful parenting project manual | 9 | ICS-SP staff—trains community facilitators Community facilitators—train parents/ caregivers | Workshops Community sensitisation activities Parental peer groups Home visits Community facilitators (6 days-skillful parenting and 5 days family budgeting) 13–15 weeks (parents/caregivers) |
| Community partnerships and child protection mechanisms | Community members, leaders and local government officials involved with child protection KE: Area Advisory Councils (AAC) TZ: Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) Protection Committees | Child protection toolkit Community strategy engagement guideline Country-specific child protection systems guidelines | Variable | ICS-SP staff Government staff | Workshops—6 days training (Tz) *Community sensitisation meetings (three times during the intervention period) *Depending on funding |
ICS-SP, Investing in Children and their Societies—Strengthening Families & Protecting Children; WSA, whole school approach.