Afex River Camp, Juba, South Sudan · RRC Reg. No. 6476

Community engagement & innovation

Communities in the lead,
supported by better tools

Participation is a system, not a meeting. We build the structures, skills
and technology that let communities direct, question and improve the services they
receive.

Components

How we put
communities in the lead

Six components that turn participation from consultation into genuine decision-making
power.

Community Participation

Representative committees co-design activities, agree targets and review delivery each cycle.

Capacity Building

Training and mentoring for community structures, volunteers, local CSOs and government counterparts.

Digital Innovation

Low-bandwidth mobile tools for data collection, referral tracking and community messaging.

Accountability

Complaints and feedback mechanisms with published response standards and closure tracking.

Anenasawa Chatbot

Confidential, always-available information on services and safe reporting, built for the networks people actually have.

Community Leadership

Deliberate handover of roles, budgets and decisions to community-managed structures.

Our protection approach

Innovation that survives the field

Technology only counts if it works on a basic phone, in low network coverage, in local languages.

Digital field operations

Mobile data collection, offline-capable forms and structured referral tracking give teams same-day visibility on cases and service gaps.

Anenasawa chatbot

A conversational assistant offering confidential information on protection and health services, referral pathways and how to report concerns — under community testing with safeguarding review at every stage.

Where we are heading

Community-facing dashboards, voice-first interfaces in local languages, and an open learning library so other national organisations can reuse what works.

“When we can see the plan and the budget, we stop being visitors in our own project.”

— Community accountability committee member

Collaborate on
community-led innovation

We are looking for partners interested in accountability systems, localisation and
appropriate technology for humanitarian settings.

Our Partners