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Received: 3 March 2017

Accepted: 13 April 2018

First Online: 9 May 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was approved by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ethics Committee (6183) and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (SS2520). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written voluntary informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Headteachers provided consent for schools to participate in the study. Parents were notified and could opt children out of participation in survey data collection. Children themselves provided consent for participation. Staff provided consent for participation in survey data collection.

: Dipak Naker developed the Good School Toolkit and is a Co-director of Raising Voices and Sophie Namy is the Raising Voices Learning Coordinator. Angel Mirembe and Janet Nakuti are employed in Raising Voices monitoring and evaluation division, but were managed by LSHTM staff during the study. No other author declared competing interests.

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