Evidence from 13 countries on the context, threats, and children’s perspectives of online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
In a unique collaboration ECPAT International, INTERPOL and UNICEF have combined forces to assess the context, threat and collect children’s perspectives of online child sexual exploitation and abuse in 13 countries in Southeast Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa. This ground-breaking project was made possible with funding from the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children through its Safe Online initiative. Not only does the combined expertise of the partners makes this project unique, but Disrupting Harm also creates the possibility to compare across the 13 countries. At the end of 2021 and in the first half of 2022, the three partners will launch a joint report for each of the 13 counties and two regional reports.
The countries included in the project are Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
ECPAT conducted a comprehensive analysis of the existing research, legislation, policy, and systems addressing online child sexual exploitation and abuse for each target country, as well as collect data in the 13 countries.
For each country, INTERPOL collected data law enforcement agencies, NGOs and the Internet industry to measure the scope and nature of the problem. INTERPOL also conducted a needs analysis of the capacity of law enforcement agencies to counter online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
UNICEF conducted nationally-representative household surveys with around 1,000 children and 1,000 of their caregivers in each of the 13 partner countries. The purpose was to hear directly from children and parents about children’s online experiences.
Uganda
Disrupting Harm in Uganda – National Report
Disrupting Harm in Uganda – Advocacy Brief
Preliminary Reports
Interviews with Government Duty Bearers
Frontline Workers’ Survey
Access to Justice Interviews with Children and Caregivers
Access to Justice Interviews with Justice Professionals
Legal Framework Analysis
Kenya
Disrupting Harm in Kenya – Report
Disrupting Harm in Kenya – Advocacy Brief
Preliminary Reports
Interviews with Government Duty Bearers
Frontline Workers’ Survey
Access to Justice Interviews with Children and Caregivers
Access to Justice Interviews with Justice Professionals
Legal Framework Analysis
Methodology Papers for Reseach Activities
Interviews with Government Duty-Bearers
Frontline Social Service Providers’ Survey
Accessing Justice Interviews with Children, Caregivers and Justice Professionals
National Desk Reviews and Legal Analysis
Conversations with Survivors
ECPAT wishes to acknowledge the hard work that made this project possible from the ECPAT member organisations in each country and a large team of ECPAT colleagues and researchers.