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Crime and memory experts at the University of Birmingham are working with partners in Africa who are developing a mobile phone app that could help to reduce sexual violence in poorer countries and bring its perpetrators to justice. Sexual violence is notoriously difficult to investigate and prosecute - especially in low and middle income countries (LMICs) such as Kenya, where some 11 million women have fallen victim to a range of such crimes including rape and intimate partner violence. Working with the Wangu Kanja Foundation (WKF), researchers are piloting 'MobApp' across Kenya. The WKF had developed MobApp to help fellow survivors support people through reporting, documenting and tracking new cases of sexual violence. Supported by the University's Institute of Global Innovation (IGI), Dr Heather Flowe, an IGI Fellow and researcher who studies how people remember and criminal events at the University of Birmingham, is working with partners at WKF to gather testimony from over 1,000 survivors. Using the app will provide policy makers with country-wide data about sexual violence and police with information to help focus resources on areas requiring more attention. Dr Heather Flowe commented: "Survivors of sexual violence in countries such as Kenya face overly bureaucratic, poorly-resourced systems, laced with corruption, leading to myriad problems with the stories of survivors usually going unheard.