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Piloting Sabasi: Data Collection Made for Africa
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We have been developing Sabasi as a free and open-source tool designed to help individuals and organizations to collect and manage data. We realised that there are a lot of tools out there, but many of them do not work in our context, where we frequently need to do our work in very remote areas. Designed for our African context, Sabasi is easy to use and requires minimal training. Our Technology Director tells all about his recent trip to Bujumbura where we are piloting the use of Sabasi.

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We are now an entirely remote-working organisation

We have closed our office and empowered our team to work efficiently from home. Happy new year!  We are so excited to be back and to have made it to 2021. As you have seen from our previous blogs, we have been examining ourselves and talking about how we are changing ourselves as an organisation…

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Rest well, Jonah
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In a small team, just like in a family, the loss of one member is felt in a huge way. Today, our family mourns the loss of one of our own: Jonah Mngola. Jonah was passionate about the artisanal small scale mining (ASM) community, and as our Open Extractives Program Lead, he spearheaded the process…

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Meet Loise, our new Director of Team Wellness
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We are excited to announce our new Director of Team Wellness, Loise W. Mboo, who joined our team this month. Loise is an accomplished and experienced organizational development specialist with over 18 years experience across the fields of consulting, private and public sectors. She is an agile, thought leader whose passionate about people development, organizational…

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Farewell, Chief Kariuki

We are sad to lose a champion for community driven development We are terribly sad to learn of the passing of our great friend, Chief Francis Kariuki of Lanet-Umoja location in Nakuru County, famously known as the Tweeting Chief, who passed on on October 21, 2020 after a short illness. We have lost a friend…

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Announcing The Decent Work Initiative
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SDG 8 aims to “promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”. Sustainable Development Goals Martin Wairegi is a vibrant young man, who got a job working at a factory in Nairobi’s Industrial Area. The Industrial Area is the city’s central hub of manufacturing that employs the…

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Announcing Nuru, a community monitoring tool during the COVID-19 pandemic
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We are excited to announce Nuru (Kiswahili for light), a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of inspiring engagement with civil society, governments and other stakeholders to take action and effect change…

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