Development and Implementation of Violence against Women and their Children Report System Mobile Application

Abstract

Mobile application is a powerful tool that reduces the communication gap between individuals or organizations, which can also integrate many features like e-reporting. This study aims to develop and implement a web and mobile application for reporting Violence Against Women and their Children (VAWC) in the Province of Laguna intended for women who experienced violence from their partners. The mobile application has an e-reporting mechanism to contact pre-selected people in times of emergency and VAWC-related information translated in a local language. Moreover, the system has five major features such as emergency module, tracking module, reporting module, awareness/information dissemination module, assessment module, job and shelter module that are connected to web application. The agile methodology was used in the software development that integrates different Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) tools and follows stages in the model like planning, requirements, analysis and design, testing, evaluation, and deployment. All the system features are working and passed the series of test casing like functionality test, performance test, system test, portability, and sharing test. The developed system achieved its primary purpose to help the community especially the women and children through a web and mobile application.