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Build the Child Trafficking Prevention System for Nigeria's Most Vulnerable Routes
Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for child trafficking. Traffickers operate openly on known routes. Design the protection system that intercepts them.
Closes 10 Sept 2026
The brief
Nigeria is ranked among the highest-risk countries globally for child trafficking. An estimated 15,000 children are trafficked annually through documented routes — motor parks in Lagos, Kano, and Onitsha; border crossings into Benin and Niger; domestic household exploitation disguised as domestic service placements. NAPTIP has limited capacity, and the social workers, transport workers, and community members who encounter trafficked children have no standardised tool for identification and reporting.
Your challenge is to design a child trafficking identification and reporting system for use by community members, transport workers, and social workers at high-risk interception points. It must include an easy-to-use risk identification guide calibrated for Nigerian trafficking patterns, a secure anonymous reporting mechanism connected to NAPTIP and state social welfare, and a support protocol for suspected victims.
Submit a system design document (max 12 pages) including: the risk identification criteria based on Nigerian trafficking patterns, the reporting mechanism and NAPTIP integration, the victim support protocol, how reporter safety is protected, how data is managed to prevent misuse, and a plan to deploy at 200 interception points across three trafficking corridors.
Judging criteria: 40% accuracy and practicality of risk identification design, 30% reporting mechanism and NAPTIP integration, 20% victim safety and support protocol, 10% deployment plan.