INTRODUCTION

CINI has developed a digital tracking system (android based application) that is available in the Google play store. The community volunteers and peer educators work within the respective families/communities to track all entitlements, its violations, grievances, and gaps in relevant service delivery concerning adolescents. This data is to be used to create a dashboard on key indicators and trends. This would become an immensely powerful advocacy tool for civil society and a decision-making tool for the government. The prime objective is to do advocacy with the government to ensure that the rights of the adolescents does not get violated or neglected in the aftermath of the pandemic. The mobile application will also have a series of simple closed-ended questions for the adolescents to answer. These questions will be related to the SRHR status of that adolescent. The broad SRHR status indicators that will be assessed through this tool are – right to health, right to nutritious food, right to life, right to education/information on SRH, right to privacy, right to freedom of thought, opinion and expression, right to be free from gender-based discrimination, right to be free from practices that harm adolescents, and right to be free from violence. The app takes the adolescent to a set of questions at the end of which it would generate an Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRHR) score (higher the score, more is their vulnerability). The app is also suggest/recommend a set of immediate action points that the adolescent should take to improve his/her score. As the application is a self-assessment tool, it would also be completely confidential and would enable the adolescents to be responding to the questions very comfortably without much hesitation.

The indicators will have questions on knowledge, attitude, behaviour, practices, social norms, and the belief systems within their families.

BROAD INDICATORS CAPTURED IN THE APPLICATION

The Application will capture the status of the adolescent, on three broad dimensions, they are:

1.TRACKING VIOLATION OF RIGHTS (VESTED UPON BY THE LAW OR THE CONSTITUTION)
2.TRACKING VULNERABILITIES (EMERGING OUT OF THEIR SITUATION AND ENVIRONMENT)
3.TRACKING INACCESSIBILITY TO GOVT. SCHEMES & ENTITLEMENTS (RELATED TO ADOLESCENTS)