The Role Of Information Communication Technology (Ict) For Child Protection: In The Case Of World Vision Ethiopia’s Child Protection Project
| dc.contributor.advisor | Afewerk, Fisseha(Associate Professor) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jima, Tesfaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-05T10:34:46Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T14:26:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-05T10:34:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T14:26:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The main objective of this study is to assess the role of the applications of digitally enhanced technologies for the reporting and management of cases of violence against children. The two study districts (Hidhabu Abote and Angolola) were purposely selected for the ICT4CP project was being piloted and implemented there by WVE. Secondary raw data on the child right violence incidences (530 cases) and the managed cases (90 cases) were obtained from the ICT4CP web based server. Besides, the project’s baseline survey (2017) report was reviewed. The obtained data were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed and reported. The quantitative data were analyzed using percentage. The current research finding showed that more than 530 incidence cases on 16 types/forms of child right violence were reported within 7months of the project implementation. From the baseline survey report (2017), among the total children (319) who had been experienced at least one form of violence either at home or at school or in the community, only 98 (30.7%) cases were reported to the concerned authorities. Through the traditional ways of reporting, among those children of 46 who reported incidences of violence against them, a total of 25 (54%) children confirmed that action was taken against the perpetrators. Out of incidences (34) reported by adults, total of 30 (88.2%) confirmed that action was taken against the incidences they reported while out of the 530 reported cases through SMS, only 90 (17%) cases were managed. Based on the current research findings, it can be concluded that the ICT4CP enhanced the reporting of incidences of child right violence. However, there was no evidence that the ICT4CP had enhanced the management of child right violence cases. Regarding the challenges in reporting and management of child right violence cases, the current research found that the ICT4CP application was not accessible for children due to the inaccessibility of mobile network services for children under 18 years according to the Ethiotelecom regulation. It was also found that there was poor accountability system among stakeholder in responding to child right violence cases as many of the stakeholders were found lacking commitment and unresponsive to the reported violence cases. Based on the major finding and conclusions drawn, the researcher recommends that WVE should make more collaboration with the concerned government offices on how to make the ICT4CP widely accessible to all community for the reporting of the child violence cases and also find ways of increasing accountability and commitment of the stakeholders in responding to child violence cases. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/19851 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Digitally Enhanced child protection | en_US |
| dc.subject | Child Protection | en_US |
| dc.subject | Child rights violence | en_US |
| dc.subject | violence against children | en_US |
| dc.title | The Role Of Information Communication Technology (Ict) For Child Protection: In The Case Of World Vision Ethiopia’s Child Protection Project | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |