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Building Tesfa: An AI Platform Predicting Health Risks in Conflict-Affected East Africa
When post-conflict regions like Ethiopia's Tigray lack the real-time data to anticipate emerging health risks, we built Tesfa, an agentic AI platform that turns fragmented conflict and health data into forward-looking risk predictions for NGOs.

From Multi-Day Reports to a 60-Second Conversation: The OI Lightagent
To prove that an AI assistant could turn raw operational data into plain-English answers, Ona Insights built the OI Lightagent and tested it end-to-end against a complete demo modelled on Kenya's community health system — architected from day one to connect to any organisation's database, in any sector.

Transforming Community Health Data Ecosystem
The Living Goods Data Architecture in Kenya: A Blueprint for Modern BI. As a technical partner to the Ministry of Health, Living Goods plays a critical role in supporting the Kenyan government's Universal Health Coverage Policy.

Standardizing the understanding of African Health Supply Chains
Strategizing Data Collection and Extraction. This inaugural piece in our Data Portals Blog Series focuses on the vital 'Extract' stage of data analytics projects — introducing a shared framework that enables comparable insights across 55 African countries for the first time.

From Scattered Spreadsheets to Automated Multisector Monitoring in Ethiopia
When UNICEF Ethiopia needed to track more than 55 humanitarian activities across five sectors and three drought-affected regions, they turned to Ona Insights to replace manual reporting with an automated pipeline that runs from an offline field form to a live dashboard.