Enhancing national child trafficking surveillance

Background: To improve cordinations and expand access to child protection services for anti-trafficking efforts in the Central, Volta, and Greater Accra regions in Ghana, the Child Protection Compact (CPC) partnership in collaboration with the IOM sought to establish a unified database for child trafficking data collection, analysis, and dissemination. 

Solution: Bewsys developed case management system that features the highest standards of data protection and victim confidentiality throughout data collection, sharing, analysis, and reporting. Standard operating procedures and shelters for victims were shared on the portal to enure that officer process cases with due dillgence for postive outcomes for victimes within the shortest possible time. 

Impact: Improving the overall accessibility of human trafficking information to government officials and key stakeholders is a big step driving collective action in improving social protection services for vulnerable children. The gruesome experiences of vulnerable populations from human trafficking are best understood with aggregate and accurate data. With this database system, government officials are empowered to effectively monitor and evaluate human trafficking policies and also providing a quantitative basis for policy design.