Mobile Phones Usage for Gender Based Violence Prevention in Kigali, Rwanda
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Date
2013-12
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Kampala International University, School of Computer and Information Technology.
Abstract
Gender-based violence prevents people's enjoyment of fundamental human
rights and it is also central social, economic and health problem. Similarly,
gender-based violence is viewed as a significant problem throughout the
world. However, in Rwanda studies on gender based violence prevention
have done, Gender based violence is still problem. Most researches in this
area were conducted but ICTs remain gender blind.
The purpose of the study was to find out the use of mobile phones on Gender
Based Violence prevention in Rwanda. the study was guided by three specific
objectives which includes; i) to determine the level of the use of mobile
phones in Rwanda, ii) to investigate the level of gender based violence
prevention in Rwanda and iii)to find out the significant relationship between
Mobile phones usage and Gender based violence prevention in Rwanda. The
study employed descriptive survey in its methodology and random sampling
technique was adopted for selecting the sample. From the findings, it was
revealed that both men and women participated .in the study, The Level of
mobile phones usage in Kigali was generally moderate and The Level of
gender based prevention was generally Low and basing on the results, null
hypothesis was rejected. Furthermore, the findings indicate that there was a
positive significant relationship between mobile phone usage and gender
based violence prevention. The study recommends that the ministry of
gender and family promotion should usually introduce strategies and method
of running the mobile applications; this will increase on the gender based
violence prevention, the ministry of gender should give financial support to
the mobile applications and provide handsets to victims that have all
applications that can offer support, information, help and protection, and this
will help to improve on the gender based violence prevention.
The government of Rwanda should turn policies into practice to develop
scalable, sustainable strategies to implement effective mobile applications.
Description
A thesis
Presented to the
College of Higher Degrees and Research
Kampala International University
Kampala, Uganda
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Information System.
Keywords
Mobile Phones, Gender and Violence, Prevention, Kigali, Rwanda