Women in Vanuatu, on the largest island Santo, have been empowered with technical training to use digital tools for data collection and reporting on environmental disasters and the impacted community needs.

The Santo Sunset Women’s Environment Network (SSWEN), in 2022, trained more than 80 women from their community on how to collect information and file disaster reports digitally--they have plans to train another 80 this year.
The women are trained on an open-source data collection software that then transmits reports to centrally-located decision-makers to be able to respond adequately and effectively with the resources needed for survivors.

While this has been a programme focused on cyclone impact, the wide range of issues ISLANDS is focused on could utilize this tool, or something similar. Women and remote community stakeholders could be engaged and trained using digital tools and technological innovations, empowering them within their communities to track and report on issues of health and safety, and also progress.

As we prioritize knowledge sharing on promising practices: Do you know of any digital data collection and reporting tools for chemical and waste stream management we could bring into programming and train diverse stakeholders on? Please share links or examples with us!

Read the story and learn more on how this program was implemented.