Sector · Civic & Democratic Infrastructure

The operating system for democracy

Building the tools Kenya's democratic institutions have never had — for constituency offices, county governments, and devolved units delivering services to citizens.

The problem

Kenya's 290 constituency offices manage thousands of constituent cases, CDF allocations worth billions of shillings, and complex service delivery workflows — almost entirely on WhatsApp, Excel, and paper. MPs receive constituent requests through personal phone numbers. Caseworkers keep records in exercise books. Bursary applications arrive on paper and are evaluated by gut feel. There is no institutional memory, no accountability trail, no way to measure outcomes.

Our approach

BungeConnect gives constituency offices the infrastructure to function like modern institutions: a case management system, a constituent database, CDF tracking, bursary workflow management, and SMS broadcast tools. Built specifically for the Kenyan parliamentary context, for the 2027 election cycle and beyond.

Products
◆BungeConnectThe operating system for Kenya's parliamentary offices LIVE ◆PBOMasterTurboTax for Kenya's PBO registration. Get compliant, get registered. LIVE
Writing
12 min
Your NGO Is Illegal and That Is Not Your Fault
Kenya's civil society compliance gap is not a story about organisations evading registration. It is a story about a registration system designed for organisations with lawyers — and what changes when the infrastructure to navigate it finally exists.
 14 min
Africa's Regulatory Failure Is Not a Law Problem
The PBO Act 2013 is better legislation than what it replaced in almost every respect. Registration rates did not meaningfully improve after it passed. The failure mode in African regulatory reform is almost never the quality of the law. It is the absence of the translation layer that makes the law navigable.
 13 min
Your Donor Is Now Your Regulator
International donors' due diligence requirements are producing compliance pressure the Kenyan state has never consistently applied. The organisations that cannot meet them are increasingly the ones doing the most essential ground-level work. Nobody designed this outcome. Understanding it is the first step to addressing it.
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