U-Report Western Balkans has been
launched for just 25 days and we are proud to share that we now have over
16,000 U-Reporters for Western Balkans! Our focus group (ages 15-24) currently
comprises 39% of our total U-Reporters, while 34% of all our U-Reporters are
women and we are confident that we will be able to obtain gender balance in the
near future. Very soon, U-Report Western Balkans will be available on Facebook
and Whatsapp as well, becoming even more accessible and user friendly to all
people in the Western Balkans!
The Western Balkans U-Report is
the first of its kind as a sub-regional U-Report and it includes the UNICEF
Country Offices of Albania, Kosovo* and Montenegro. National polls will be
administered only to U-Reporters in that nation, while sub-regional polls will
be administered to all U-Reporters in the Western Balkans!
Our best practices at Western
Balkans are being documented for sharing with countries across the world
implementing U-Report to support the replication of our efficient results.
By nature, the purpose of
programmatic interventions is to address various issues and uncovered
challenges. Constant programmatic interventions are always based on evidence,
research and reports generated by central institutions, international and local
agencies and NGOs. However, time of production of data, research and outreach
costs always play a significant inhibiting role in the inclusivity of various
studies which directly affect the validity of the information upon which these
programmatic interventions are based.
As Western Balkans governments,
institutions, donor agencies and NGOs continue to invest substantial funds to
design and implement numerous programmatic interventions for improving every
area of life in their communities, real-time information and perspective from
thousands of U-Reporters can drastically improve the impact and efficiency of
each intervention. U-Report can provide access to real-time and all-inclusive
information, on any specific theme being polled, informing each programmatic
intervention with perspective from tens of thousands of U-Reporters, with
overwhelming data on key indicators, thus enabling governments, institutions,
NGOs and agencies to address matters that its residents perceive as most
pressing, and by making programmatic interventions much more precise and
impactful.
For more information on U-Report
Western Balkans, please visit westernbalkans.ureport.in !
