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Received: 5 July 2020

Accepted: 15 November 2020

First Online: 1 December 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study, and the use of the data registry, has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town (HREC Ref: 172/2019).Data collection involved secondary analysis of data only, with no human participants. Consent to storage of data from all individuals in respect of the Salesforce database is routinely obtained by the programme staff. This consent includes the release of anonymised data to third parties for research and evaluation purposes. Specific measures to protect privacy and the confidentiality of the data stored in the database were taken. The researcher did not have access to the programme database. Programme staff generated anonymised reports based on the data requests specified by the researcher, ensuring that these did not contain any identifiers or private or confidential information.

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: JR and NN both declare non-financial competing interests. The researcher (JR) is the former UK Charity Manager for The Children’s Hospital Trust, South Africa (registered charity 1121573) which provides philanthropic funding to CNPDI. JR was not employed by the Children’s Hospital Trust at the time of the study, which she undertook in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science in Global Health in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. NN is the Research Programme Director at CNPDI and participated in member checking. Neither JR nor NN have any financial competing interests.