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 ◆PBOMasterGuided PBO registration for Kenyan NGOs. Get compliant, get registered. LIVE
Writing
10 min
Legible, Navigable, Writable: What Measuring a City Actually Costs
We replaced guessed building heights with satellite-measured ones across Nairobi, moving from 0.3% to 73.6% observed. Then two sources that both say 'measured' turned out to disagree by seven metres — and the authoritative one was probably wrong.
 8 min
What Dies on Election Night
A Kenyan campaign is the most operationally capable organisation most constituencies will ever have. It is built from nothing in six months and dissolved the moment it succeeds — taking the largest informal needs assessment in the country with it.
 6 min
Who's Missing From the Map: Building-Footprint Coverage Gaps in Nairobi's Informal Settlements
Kibera: 82% of its buildings are in OpenStreetMap. Mathare: only 16% are. The difference is not population or need — it is whether a settlement ever had a dedicated volunteer mapping campaign.
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