Roar II Endline Evaluation Report

The project: Respect Ourselves Accentuate Resilience (ROAR) Phase 2 was implemented from February 2023 to December 2024 with funding from Westpac. Its overall goal is to empower children and youth as decision makers and leaders to protect all girls and boys inclusive of those with diverse SOGIESC from online abuse and exploitation. The initiative will also raise the children’s voices on solutions to inclusive implementation at the national and ASEAN level. The project was implemented in three phases: Research, Development, and Advocacy in 15 schools in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai provinces which have the highest numbers of stateless, migrant, ethic and marginalised Thai school children living in a hot spot for sex trafficking, child prostitution, online and offline exploitation. Save the Children has engaged ECPAT Foundation (Thailand) as the project Implementing Partner. It expected to train 60 youth from the 15 target schools as research leaders to collect inputs from up to 1,500 children. Indirect beneficiaries of the project include 25,000 children and young people and 5,000 adults.

The result of the endline self-assessment indicates that the majority of the youth respondents were confident about their ability to assess associated risks and benefits of the websites of online applications that they frequently use. This is further supported by findings from their self-assessed awareness about 10 different types of risky behaviours online, where high percentages (around 85-96%) of them indicated good knowledge. On the average, female and LGBTQ+ respondents have relatively higher scores than males in most items. Respondents with disabilities also have high scores in most items.