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Call/SMS: 888 to report

Sos reporting:

Steps:Make teamMake project proposals (keep it undisclosed)Estimate budgetsEstimate project pilots

Get donors, funders under one project

Prepare front content, simple to usePrepare call center, gateways, and agentsPrepare reporting toolsActivationTeach how to SMS reportsTeach how to get reports

Backend: geo location, report, graphs from any point of stakeholders.

Garments employee call center/SMS reportingsystem engaging Government and civil societyorganizations in garments in Bangladesh.

Provide youth with the opportunity to report violence against children.These reports can in turn help Plan gather valuable data aboutviolence in a variety of communities, better understand the nature ofviolence against children in Bangladesh, and serve as a useful tool for

raising awareness among a variety of stakeholders.

Provide government actors with a steady stream of actionableinformation related to violence against children.

Where we are:

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inclusiontec has innovated by piloting SMS and geovisualization(mapping) for violence tracking and reporting for the children ofBangladesh.

The visualization of violence types and cases is a powerful tool foradvocating to local and national governments and decision makers aswell as funding agencies about the need for violence prevention andtreatment services and programs.

Violence against children remains a serious problem in Bangladesh.

Children live in danger of corporal punishment in school and at home.

Girls are vulnerable to sexual violence such as rape and forcedmarriage.

Trafficking of children across borders and economic exploitation arealso real dangers.

The government of Bangladesh has put in place actors to prevent andrespond to such incidents of violence against children, which includeCenters for Social Protection and judicial resources such as judges andprosecutors who specialize in child protection and childrens rights.

These resources, however, remain underused and under funded.

Through its SMS helpline inclusiontec will encourage higher rates ofreporting of violence against children by providing citizens with a rapidand anonymous means of reporting.

The mapping and management of reports in Ushahidi also allows Savethe Children Bangladesh to have readily accessible data on theextent of violence in the country that can be used in advocacy efforts

with central government actors.

Save the Children Bangladesh will began receiving SMS reports ofviolence as quick as we deploy the programme.

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Messages are received by a FrontlineSMS system housed at thenational office in Bangladesh.

Messages are instantly forwarded to the project focal points who are

based in Plans programmee offices in various departments.

These focal points then help launch the investigation and response bypassing along the message to the relevant local government actors.

Our Approach: How the system works

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Using a mobile phone, anyone witnessing or experiencing violenceagainst children sends an SMS report to a local, easy to remember,number. The report is registered in the FrontlineSMS system

(www.frontlinesms.com) .

The sender receives a thank you for your message! SMS toacknowledge the report.

The report is archived in Frontline SMS (managed at CO level byinclusiontec) and automatically sent to the back-end of the Ushahidisystem. An administrator at the PU level reviews the report, geo-locating it on the map using the information from the SMS message,and ticking off the type of violence that was reported.

At the same time SMS alert goes out to local authorities and frontlinestaff (Save the Children Team) who are responsible for child protectionin the community so that they can follow up to research and verify thecase and process it according to local child protection laws.

Local authorities can also use the incident map to plan budgets,programs and support for victims of violence.

Children and youth are using Flip cameras and mobile phones togather and upload testimonies from children and community memberson the Ushahidi map also to generate awareness and discussion about

violence against children.

Scopes:

New technology tools by youth, including Flip cameras and mobilephones, to create media and conduct outreach with their communitiesand the wider public

Mobile phones to crowd source reports of violence in the 3 pilotcommunities and after wards at country level

Geo-location and geo-visualization to support program planning,management and advocacy

Mobile phones and the web to strengthen management of cases ofviolence against children by local authorities

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Social media tools for sharing the project process, sharing learning,generating discussion and ideas, and promotion of the project itself

Message content: Name + Age + Sex + Locality + Type of violence(all useful information to help ROC team and CPS members to takeaction)

Type of violence: categorize using UN study. We can add if neededadditional categories

Location: map the incident on Bangladesh map

Evaluate the incident and approve on a dynamic manner: status ofeach violence changes tacking into account reports coming from field

under SC team supervision after verification

It shows that rural community can use new technologies in very simplemanner to reduce violence against child and sensitize authorities andcommunities on he scope of violence against child

This project will show that ICT can be used to achieve business goals invarious domain (Rights, Health, Food security, Emergency, Education,)

The SC Bangladesh project will be an initiative that has the potential tosignificantly raise the profile of violence against children in Bangladeshwhile contributing to the resolution of cases where children have beenabused, kidnapped, exploited, or otherwise mistreated.