By Teng Lauban Datu
Cotabato City Bureau Chief .
Cotabato City — The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) has launched in the Bangsamoro Region a free online messaging tool used to improve adolescent and youth engagement – the U-Report.
The U-Report uses polls, alerts, and collect real time responses. It empowers the youth and encourages them to be the voice of their communities.
Andrew Morris, Unicef Philippines chief of field office in Mindanao, said “U-Report will now give adolescents and young people opportunity to make their views known in a much more powerful way.”
The U-Report in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is the first in the country. It was launched in partnership with the Voluntary Service Overseas Philippines and the Office on the Bangsamoro Youth Affairs – Barmm.
“For Unicef, we know that the passion, the ideas, and innovations of young people can transform the Bangsamoro’s future. We know that. But if young people like to do that, they need to be involved, consulted, empowered, and be equipped,” Morris said.
To become a U-Reporter, Bangsamoro youth must login to their Facebook accounts, search for the U-Report Philippines page, open the messenger app and click join. Upon joining, reporters can start participating in the polls and send reports. (with reports from bpi-barmm)
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