North-Eastern Kenya Digital Data Platform
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
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- Organization: World Food Programme
- Role: Programme Policy Officer (Data and Innovation)
- Duration: May 2024 – September 2025
- Tools: SQL, dashboard/visualization tools, predictive analytics
Short description: A one-stop digital platform consolidating humanitarian program data across North-Eastern Kenya, built to help county governments make faster, better-informed decisions.
Full body: North-Eastern Kenya has no shortage of humanitarian and development activity — the problem was visibility. Multiple organizations were running programs with little shared information about who was doing what, where, and with what results. This project built a digital data platform to consolidate that information into a single, accessible portal.
Beyond the platform itself, I led development of county-level dashboards that let local governments see program activity in their area and make more informed decisions, and provided technical oversight for testing predictive analytics tools designed to forecast political violence — a genuinely difficult, high-stakes modeling problem given how sparse and sensitive the underlying data is. Alongside the technical build, I worked on the governance side: designing MoUs between county governments and civil society organizations to formalize data sharing, and establishing information exchange channels involving the Office of the Deputy President and the North East Advisory Group.
