Africa's Voices Foundation

Africa’s Voices Foundation partners with community media organizations in Africa to amplify citizen voice, inform the design of public policies, and monitor the implementation of public services and social programs. Africa’s Voices implements a nationwide governance and accountability campaign in Somalia while entering new partnerships in other sectors and countries.

Incubated at Cambridge University, Africa’s Voices is establishing itself in East Africa to apply experience with citizen engagement and data analysis to help service delivery organizations better understand and respond to the needs of their clients. Partnering with media companies and short message service (SMS) platform providers, Africa’s Voices engages marginalized and hard-to-reach communities to gather, analyze, and channel citizen feedback on the public services that they are—or are not—receiving. As a learning organization, Africa’s Voices also investigates the conditions under which increased citizen voice informs service delivery decisions.