Sankofa Africa Alliance · Evidence Platform
Field knowledge,organised into evidenceyou can stand behind.
Sankofa captures what communities know and report, checks every record as it arrives, and turns it into findings partners can trace back to the source, from a field officer's tablet to a ministry briefing.
- Verified records
- 4,666
- Communities
- 27
- Counties
- 5
- Field officers
- 36
Sample programme used in the demo · 3 studies
Evidence object · Photograph
Illustrative imageEV-KLF-2026-0418
Water Access Monitoring · Mtwapa, Kilifi
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Captured 26 Aug 2026 · 11:29 EAT · sample record
Why it matters
Evidence goes missing between the field and the decision.
Communities already know what is changing around them. The loss happens afterwards: in re-typing, in summaries nobody can check, in reports filed away when a project closes.
Illustrative imageToo often
Paper forms re-typed weeks after the interview
With Sankofa
Captured on the device, offline if need be, and checked before it is accepted.
98.7% of sample records complete on arrival
On recordToo often
A headline figure nobody can trace
With Sankofa
Every figure carries its base, its confidence interval and the records behind it.
Kilifi: 70% · 95% CI 66%–72% · 619 of 890 verified
On recordToo often
Findings that disappear when the project ends
With Sankofa
Institutional Evidence Memory: kept, searchable, and read against next year's evidence.
4,666 verified sample records retained
On recordThe Evidence Journey
From question to evidence to action.
Seven stages, grouped the way Sankofa works: reclaim what communities know, reorganise it into evidence, and multiply what it makes possible.
Illustrative imageCapture what already exists.
Studies are designed around the question a programme needs answered. Field officers collect on any phone or tablet, with or without a connection; the form checks itself before anything is submitted.
Figures from the sample programme.
- Studies in the sample programme
- 3
- Communities reached
- 27
- Field officers contributing
- 36
- Records held safely on devices
- 118
Assurance
Evidence you can defend in the room.
Each record is fingerprinted the moment it is captured. Every action after that, from synchronising to sharing, is written to an audit chain in which each entry is sealed to the one before it.
Content fingerprint · SHA-256
EV-KLF-2026-0418 · Mtwapa, Kilifi
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Re-checked: content unchanged since capture
Change a single answer and the fingerprint no longer matches. The server re-computes it before accepting any record.
Audit chain · this record's history
- 1
Captured · FO-KLF field officer · 6 quality checks run on the device
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- 2
Synchronised · Received by the platform and checked again
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- 3
Verified · Passed every quality check and was marked verified
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- 4
Shared · Cited in the Water Access evidence brief
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Hashes computed the way the platform computes them · sample record.
Who it serves
One evidence base, read the same way at every level.
From the field officer in Ganze to the programme director presenting to a ministry. Step into any role in the demo.
In their own words
“The new tap stand near the school has made a big difference for the children.”
Questions
