🌿 e-tankas - Your Partner in Environmental Health 🌿

e-tankas is an innovative mobile app designed to revolutionize the enforcement of environmental health bylaws, making Ghana’s communities cleaner, healthier, and safer. Developed to support the work of environmental health officers and empower the general public, e-tankas offers an easy-to-use platform for reporting, verifying, and penalizing environmental offenses. With seamless mobile money integration, offenders can pay fines on the spot, ensuring swift compliance with health regulations. Join us in creating a cleaner environment for everyone!

🚀 Key Features 🚀
- Spot Fine Issuance & Payment: Environmental health officers can issue fines on the spot, with offenders able to pay instantly through mobile money, making enforcement more effective and efficient.
- Public Reporting & Rewards: Report any environmental nuisances directly through the app. If your report is verified, you receive 20% of the fine imposed on the offender. Be a community hero while earning some cash!
- Photo & Video Evidence: Capture and upload photos or videos of environmental offenses for verification, ensuring that every report is credible and actionable.
- Real-time Updates: Stay informed with real-time notifications on the status of your reports, fines issued, and payments made.
- GPS Location Tracking: Accurate geolocation ensures that environmental health officers can easily find and address reported issues.
- Data Collection & Analysis: Environmental health officers can use the app to collect data on offenses, helping to analyze trends and improve community health strategies.
- User-Friendly Interface: Navigate the app with ease thanks to its intuitive design and user-friendly interface.
- Secure and Reliable: Your data is protected with top-notch security measures, ensuring your information remains confidential.

Verification Process
• Initial Submission: When a report is submitted, it is first logged into our system with all relevant details, including location, description, and any supporting evidence such as photos or videos.
• Preliminary Review: Our team conducts a preliminary review to check for completeness and relevance. Reports that lack sufficient detail or evidence are flagged for follow-up.
• Field Verification: Verified reports are assigned to field officers who visit the reported location to confirm the violation. This step ensures that only genuine reports are processed.
• Final Approval: Once the field verification is complete, the report is reviewed by a senior officer for final approval. If the report is confirmed, the fine is imposed on the offender, and the reporter is awarded 20% of the fine.
• Notification: Both the reporter and the offender are notified of the outcome. The reporter receives their reward through the app, and the offender is informed of the fine and payment process.

Partnerships with Local Authorities
e-tankas is proud to collaborate with local authorities to ensure effective enforcement of environmental health bylaws. Our partnerships include:
• Municipal and District Assemblies: Working closely with local government bodies to align our efforts with community regulations and standards.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Collaborating with the EPA to ensure that our verification processes and enforcement actions are in line with national environmental policies.
• Local Law Enforcement: Partnering with police and other law enforcement agencies to support the enforcement of fines and ensure compliance with environmental health regulations.