Kagunya, Esther Wairimu (2015) Child Protection, Surveillance and Decision Support Management Information System (Cpsmis) for Nairobi. Masters thesis, University of Nairobi.
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Abstract
Nairobi Children Home (NCH) is the only Government Institution that protects and takes care of vulnerable children and orphans below six years in Nairobi County. To begin with, the motivation of carrying out the research project at the Home was to establish how data is captured and how the information is used at the Home, by partners and stakeholders. The intention was to establish how ICTs can be used to enhance the management processes and information sharing.However, as the research work progressed, it was established that there are so many (actors) that relate and should relate with the home as far as child protection data is concerned. NCH acts as a rescue center for categories of children such as lost, abandoned, children of imprisoned mothers, abused among others. All the management processes are manual and from the research findings, there are a lot of challenges in terms of data and information sharing that include and not limited to; lots of raw data that retrieval is tedious, lots of child data that is undetected among the many actors, tracing of lost children takes a long time because of over relying on press releases among others. The methodological processes in this research project were qualitative, and from the findings, an Online Child Protection and Surveillance with Decision Support Management Information System (CPSMIS) was developed. The system can capture all reported child incidences and several reports based on the data are generated. The members of the public can access the system to report lost/found incidences as well as search for the same. Individual case follow-ups can be tracked for the life span at the home. Though the system was accepted by the users, it was evident a proper framework should be developed to assist in integrating other child protection information subsystems for national portrait of child protection data and information and to assist in the surveillance aspect. In conclusion, high quality data are needed on the prevalence of child protection problems as well as on the risk and protective factors that influence child protection outcomes. To achieve this it is important to acknowledge that a national child protection system comprises a package of laws, policies, regulations and services in all social sectors especially social welfare, education, health, security and justice and coordination of these multiple services, and of the different kinds and levels of institutional responsibilities, constitutes a key element for a systemic approach to child protection and care services.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Mr Jude Abhulimen |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2016 06:21 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2016 06:31 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/824 |
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