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South Africa is the most unsafe country in the world for women and COVID-19 is making this worse
3 In December of 2020, Siya, aged 19 and 9 months pregnant, was raped, brutally murdered, and dumped on the side of a major highway outside Cape Town. She never had a chance. Her story is so typical that it has never been reported on in the press and her killer has never been found. Kwanele is a non profit organization founded to amplify Siya’s voice and the thousands of women like her, and create a platform to assist in obtaining justice.
• All names are changes in compliance with the POPI ACT.
• *https://mg.co.za/special reports/2020 12 04 gender based violence/
Our Story
Our mission is to increase reporting and conviction rates for Gender-Based Violence in South Africa through the collection, organization, and presentation of admissible evidence to the appropriate legal authorities. Our vision is to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls in South Africa.
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• South Africa is the rape capital of the world, with 132 incidents per 100,000 people
Need for Change
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• 37% of adult men report having raped a woman
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“The perpetrator killed my sister but only spent 2 years in jail, and I lost my little sister”
• The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates femicide in South Africa each year five times worse than the global average
From our survey 13 out of 143 instances of GBV ended in a conviction resulting in a conviction rate of 9%
• 93% of women surveyed would use their phone to report Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
Step by step guidance through the judicial system and a network of support services
A friend notification feature during crisis
The Kwanele Solution:
Live chat service with trained staff
Data collection
Video and audio stream of incident
An easy-to-use app that gives women a way to get help fast and guides them through the process of laying a charge and getting a conviction. The Kwanele App is free to download and does not require a user to have data to use it.
Kwanele App Features: Panic Locationalbuttonservices for emergencies
File upload for all documents and images associated with the case
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• The app then notifies either armed response or South African Police Services of the emergency.
How it works…
• As soon as the panic is activated your phone will video and audio stream – this data is stored on the cloud.
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Panic Button:
• Shake your phone to activate an emergency call.
• The app does a countdown from 10 to minimise the chance of a mistake.
• Your phone with notify your emergency contact of your situation.
• Vault: a safe space within the app where users can upload narrative, audio or video footage. Survivors can also use this space to ensure accountability of service providers.
• Network of services: a database of services available to survivors of GBV, linked to their location. This varies from counselling, legal support, to support for their whole family.
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• Guidance through the legal system.
• Data collection: the Kwanele App helps us collect data to enable us to look at behaviour patterns and GBV hotspots.
• First Responders: our trained staff are available for live chat 24/7.
How it works…
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Objectives & Impact
We aim to onboard 30,000 users in 2023.
Key Objective 3: To enable safe and healthy communities that empower women and children to contribute to social upliftment and economic development in South Africa.
Key Objective 1: To significantly reduce GBV against women & children in South Africa through the development of technologies that include a mobile application (Kwanele App).
Key Objective 2: To effectively influence South Africa’s judicial system in a manner that leads to an increase in successful arrests and convictions of GBV perpetrators.
Scale to 2,500 users by end 2022
• Lusikisiki District: 500 users
Eastern Cape Cape Town
Guateng (July 2022)
Cape Town Pilot: (Estimated in October 2022)
KZN (January 2023)
Rural Eastern Cape (estimated Jan 2023)
Scale to 2,500 users in the province by end of 2022
• LGBTQIA+: 250 users
Scale to 15,000 users in the Western Cape by end of 2023
• Du Noon: 200 users
Piloting and Scaling our Solution
Scale to 5,000 users by end 2022
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• Nyanga: 500 users
Beta Test August and September 2022
Security:
• Users must agree to the apps Privacy Policy which covers how their personal information is stored and managed.
• POPIA compliant: data security is extremely important and something we have put a lot of focus on.
• User data is stored using an EC2 Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-hosted service in Cape Town.
• Encryption and HTTPS certificates are used to protect the data and APIs.
• Users can edit their profile information and settings at any time within the app.
www.kwanelesouthafrica.org
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For any additional information
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Join our Journey
Leonora@kwanelesouthafrica.org
