Globally, nearly 650,000 children lose their lives to injuries every year. This study aims to reduce unintentional injuries in the home among under-5 years in Jinja, Uganda through the provision of a child safety kit and parental education. It will be conducted in two phases:
• Phase 1 is formative and will be guided by a community-based participatory approach using mixed methods (in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, market surveys) to contextualise the child injury problem (identifying accurate incidence rates from which to define a sample size for Phase 2) and develop a child safety kit and educational material/training;
• Phase 2 will measure behaviour change and reductions in injuries through a cluster Randomised Control Trial (RCT).

The specific objectives are:

1. To describe the under 5 child injury context in Jinja, Uganda
2. To explore practices and behaviours that put under-5s at risk of injury in the home environment
3. To develop an appropriate child safety kit including supporting educational material for a low-income setting
4. To test the impact of implementing a child safety kit versus traditional education
5. To explore opportunities for scale-up across other low-income countries