BRAC has launched a specially designed database on a user-friendly local service mapping website called “Shongjog” to support survivors of violence.
The interactive tool offers names, contact details and other information to the service providing agencies was introduced for the public at an event held at the BRAC Centre, said a press release on Thursday.
BRAC will offer information on eight types of services from this platform that has been developed based on a mapping conducted in 61 districts covering 435 upazilas across Bangladesh.
The platform will offer information on medical, legal, psychosocial and other relevant local services.
“This initiative will be truly successful only when people will get updated information from this site. But it’s not possible for BRAC only to entirely update it. It needs collaboration from all relevant stakeholders,” BRAC Executive Director Asif Saleh said at the launching ceremony.
He urged all to not consider the website as an initiative solely of BRAC and to make their own contributions so that it becomes successful.
Parliamentarian Aroma Dutta and National Legal Aid Service Organisation (NLASO) Deputy Director Habibur Rahman Chowdhury attended the event as the chief guest and special guest respectively.
Appreciating this initiative, lawmaker Aroma Dutta called on all the civil society entities working on women’s rights to join the effort. She suggested BRAC should use the information on this website to develop a data bank to ensure more efficient support for survivors of violence.
