An ambitious project of CRT, Our Child Our
Progress (OCOP), child tracking system for collection and analysis of
information for protection of children will be launched by Mr. Umesh
Aradhya, Chairman, Karnataka State commission for protection of Child
Rights [KSCPCR] on 29th March at EDC auditorium, Sheshadhri Road in
the city at 10:30 am.
Mr.
Sridhar Pabbisetty, Chief programmes officer at B.PAC; Ms. Shashikala
Shetty, Project Director, Integrated Child Protection Scheme [ICPS],
GoK; Ms. Suchitra Rao, Independent Development Consultant; Mr.
Guruprasad, Partnership Manager, Railway Children, UK; Mr. William
Gali, Country Director, Every Child, UK; Dr. Padmini, Trustee, Child
rights Trust will take part in the programme followed by discussion
on 'Status of children and the importance of collection and analysis
of statistics in relation to children'.
Background
Well
being, a better status and condition of children in any community
defines the development indicator of a state or nation. For this
purpose information related to children are collected in large
numbers. Of late this kind of collection, analysis and reports are
prepared with the help of computers and technology. But, still we
find disparities in reports, analysis and reports due to non
compatabilty in statistics collected by various NGO's and Govt
departments that are working for upholding rights of children. The
sum total effect of it, continued violation of Child rights.
In
order to arrest these obstacles CRT has developed a web based
software-Our Children Our Progress for collection and analysis of
child centered information locally and generation of reports. Child
cenered information gathering begins from womb till children complete
their 18 year. With the help of this system, information will be
collated and analysed and reports on the situation of children are
provided to the service providers advocating them to uphold the
rights of the children and to prevent exploitation.
This
dream project of CRT has been tested with the financial support of
EveryChild and technical inputs by Hooduku IT solutions. This
software has been tested in the last two years in 20 Grama Panchayats
at Rayabagh taluk, Belagavi District with the back up of Rural
Development and Panchayat Raj Department of GOK. MASS, a local
organisation and 25 volunteers took the responsibility of collecting
on line data with house to house survey. The software has analysed
the information for about 18,000 children from 6000 families (with
children). This software generates reports that can be used at
Panchayats, Anganawadi, Health centres, Schools, Police, Social
welfare department and NGOs. All these can join hands with the
Panchayats in understanding the ground realities about the status of
the children and analyse the same and take measures to uphold rights
of the children . This software also helps to curb the misuse of
resources.
This
Software helps to generate
- Age wise children Report
- Religion and cast based Children report
- Report on Orphan Children
- Report on Child Labour
- Report on Birth registration
- Report on children with disability from birth
- Report on Child marriage and Minor pregnancy
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