Table of Contents: Page

Introduction & Background 3

Slogans versus real citizen engagement 4

Examples and Use Cases 7

Inclusive Citizen Engagement 12

Stakeholder Collaboration 14

Sub - National Data Initiatives on the influence of Policy 20

Enabling Environment 21

Sub - National data & citizen engagement link to the Global Space 22

Community of Practice 24

Recommendations & Way Forward 25

Appendices 28

LIST OF ACRONYMS:

LNOB Leaving No One Behind

MDGs Millennium Development Goals

SDGs Sustainable Development Goals

GGLI Global Goals for Local Impact

CDD Conserved Domain Database

COP Community of Practice

NGO Non Governmental Organisations

CSOs Civil Society Organizations

UBOS Uganda Bureau of Statistics

IREX International Research and Exchange Board

SBC4D Consortium 4 Data

MAVC Making All Voices Count

UN DESA United Nations Department of Economic

GPSDD Global Partnership for Sustainable Development and

Data

WCCD World Council on City Data

GPSA Global Partnership for Social Accountability

IDEA Initiative for Data for Equity

NBS National Bureau of Statistics

CIS Communication Information Systems

MAVC Making All Voices Count

COP Community of Practice

AU African Union

GODAN Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition

BACKGROUND:

The name Buntwani refers to an open air space where citizens meet to talk to each other candidly,
meet with elders and formally meet citizens visiting from other villages.

In context, Buntwani aims to be a conversation starter and facilitator among various key
stakeholders actively involved and/or interested in the potential of innovation in strengthening citizen
engagement and participation, bringing together multiple stakeholders for candid discussions and
debates on the challenges and opportunities in the innovation and governance space. At each
Buntwani event, there is a showcase of the innovations that work and a highlight of the strategies
and experiences that contribute to stakeholder success.

New and ongoing developments in innovation - technology and data-supported initiatives - provide
governments and citizens with many new opportunities for engagement. Globally, citizens have
access to an increasing number of tools to monitor government performance and express their
concerns and expectations in real time. These developments create new opportunities to promote
transparency, fight corruption, empower citizens and make governments more effective and
accountable.

INTRODUCTION:
Buntwani 2017 being purposefully structured with an unconference setup in mind had the sessions
facilitated in a circle. This allowed all the participants to contribute equally which was different from a
conference setup which ordinarily has invited speakers.
Buntwani 2017 being heavily focused on the notion set by the Global Goals - that we must eliminate
poverty, combat inequality and tackle climate change within the next fifteen years - by 2030, and
that we must do all of this by ensuring no one is left behind. Leave No One Behind as the theme of
the event had the sessions to structured along the following questions:

How do we incorporate citizen needs, ideas and expectations to ensure they are not left
behind?
How do we use data and innovation at the sub-national level to ensure no one is left behind?
How can these multi-stakeholder (government, civil society, academia, public and private
sector) collaborate better to ensure no is left behind?
How do we create an enabling environment that allows for the sharing of learnings in
ensuring no one is left behind?

SLOGANS VERSUS REAL CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

These theme was geared towards enunciating the most controversial statements towards bringing
out the reality in citizen engagement and to spark thoughts towards making citizen engagement
better. The statements made included the following:

IN THE ABSENCEOFQUALITYDATA,DECISIONMAKINGISATTHEBEST,ANUNEDUCATED
GUESS.

Some of the comments towards this statement include the following:

We live here and we know how resources are invested. These are first of all, party lines, budget
issues including political considerations, consultations, is there data to support your decisions,
media, whether it is educated or not, nobody cares as longastheirinterestsarecovered.Intheory,
who defines quality data? As thestatisticiantoday,whatisqualitydata?Dothesedynamicschange
when you are in politics? There is nothing as political as data.
Nnenna Nwakanma

The statement is factual in that, without accuracy in information, decision making becomes an
uneducated guess. People make decisions based on all manner of reasons. Peter da Costa

Political decisions are guesses. Data is very important for decision making. Quality data and its
stipulation is in existence and is well defined within the Quality Data Assessment Framework.
Johnson Kagugube

How we define quality data is relative. For me, it is all about working data. Data that is of use to
transform the community. Chief Kariuki

Quality data has to be relevant. Omar Bakari

IS IT ALL TALK AND NO SUBSTANCE?

This statement also enunciated the following comments:

LeaveNoOneBehind,DataRevolutionandthelikearenotjustbuzzwords.Ithasbeenonthebasis
and will continue on the basis ofthesebuzzwords,thatthereisaglobalmovementandpressurefor
governments to begin doing something to steer progress towards action. People are realising that
they have been previously left behind and people are demanding to be included. I think the buzz
words are good instruments for mobilising action over a longer period of time. Davis Adieno

Buzzwords are a fad. Leave No One Behind as a tag is new but we know there has been agenda
targeting poverty reduction for decades. This applies to development as well. Working on data
revolution has been there since the 80s. We have been working towards improving data and its
usage for ages. This is now just being repackaged; being tagged differently. Angela Kageni

We keep coming up with new phases/statements without looking at the end product. MDGs to
SDGs, for example. We try toincludeeveryonebutintheendtherearealwayspeopleleftbehind.In
the end, the results are not what we set outtoachieve.Afewpeoplesitsomewhereandset goals
and push them to countries to implement. A lot more can be done. We come up withnewphrases
everyday but we don't really do the work. Beatrice Mkani

If you look at the data revolution. The methodology and the disaggregation of data must include
groups that have been left behind. For instance, people withdisabilitieshavebeencontinuouslyleft
behind within the methodological bit of iti.e.withinkeysurveysandadministrativedata.Thepeople
with disability and even indigenous groups do not have the legal framework to which we can
underpin the integration. This is a reality for us to push in so that governmentsandregionalbodies
have instituted the legal frameworks and policies that can support the integration of these left out
groups. Leave No One Behind is not just a slogan but a platform and opportunity for us who have
been left behind are now included. Roseline Kihumba

Oneofthechallengeshasbeenhowthisdatacanbeprocessedevenbetterandshared.Inthenext
12 years of implementing the SDGs, Im certain the progress of processing and even sharing this
data will be immeasurable. Johnstone Baguma

BETWEEN THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND THE PRODUCTIVE SECTORS, WHERE DO WE

NEED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES MORE?

Having a middle ground in development across the social economic and the productive sectors is
the most ideal path to take in development. Both sectors rely on each other to thrive. The social
sector for example, if people have no water, are not educated and in proper health there can be no
industry or service delivery. Elijah Ambassa

ARE THE GLOBAL GOALS TRULY GLOBAL OR ARE THEY JUST AN EXCUSE FOR FUNDERS
TO KEEP FUNDING AFRICAN PROJECTS?

The global goals which the states adopted are non-committal. What we need then is to have such
discussions often to encourage the commitment to these goals by partnerships such as the private
sector and the government.

EXAMPLES AND USE - CASES

These session was meant to put the existing realities on paper across the different sectors
represented; government, private sector, public sector and civil society in terms of their wishes,
what to do to achieve the said wishes, who is doing what where, what they know and how
they know it, the metrics and upcoming events geared towards Leaving No One Behind.

A. WISH LISTS:


In actualising the Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) slogan, what wishes do you have/do you
wish to see?

To have a research and information services like those in MalawireplicatedacrossAfrica;tohavea
CDD Ghana; to have a SEND West Africa; to have a HARASS Map; to have development
practitioners use Huruma Map in decision making; to have local leaders participate at the
sub-national level as thedecisionmakersatthelowestgovernmentlevel;tohavemorecollaborative
initiatives between government, CSOs, and the private sectors; to have donors and central
governmentsupportingdatageneration,tohavemorefinancialsustainabilitystrategiesamongstcivil
society organizations; to have more community engagement in data collection and use as proveto
the data being community generated; to have data practitioners help journalists do data journalism
not mere reporting; to have more citizen engagement platforms that can bring many stakeholders
from the sub - national level; to have more exchange programmeswithinternationalcollaborations;
to have more initiatives targeted at convincing the Africangovernmentstoembracedata;toinclude
the following groups of people in such Buntwani forums: citizens representatives,councillors/MPs,
policy makers, county government's, chief officers in charge of finance, media/ traditional media
and community based leaders; to develop an indicator/ data handbook/ framework for all
administrative or political units; to have donors and central government supportdatageneration;to
have the African government embrace a data revolution in its totality. to have state reporting
institutions at the national and international levels; to have donors funding datacollectioninitiatives
more seriously; to have more involvement and simplification of budget documents andinformation
for transparency and accountability advocacy; to have more journalists use data platforms to
spearhead data journalism; tohavebothnationalandlocalgovernmentsembracechangeespecially
in collecting quality data that will enable easy allocation ofresourcesatthegrassrootlevel;tohave
more data sensitisation initiatives atthesub-nationallevels;tohavecredibleandaccessibledatafor
all the 17 goals; to have disaggregated data from global to local level GLOCAL Data;

B. TO DO LIST:

In actualising the Leaving No One Behind beyond its sloganism, what doyouthinkshouldbe
done?
A. Funders:

To move resources to support/ make leave no one behind a reality by having policy and legal
frameworks, data systems and methodology, co-ordination and leader slip mechanism, capacity
building of movements; to have core funding and long term project support ( 3yearsespecially);to
have more resources to reach more people; to promote data quality and use at the sub - national
levels with adequate involvement of the community and other relevant players; to support none -
media and creative works for citizen engagement in implementation of the SDGs; to direct more
resources on educating ordinary people on the SDGs; to support the systems ofdatacollectionfor
local impact; to fund community engagement platforms to create more data driven stories;tocarry
out research on gender related issues; to put resourcesinCSOcapacitybuildinginitiatives;tohave
funders invest in sustainable capacity building; to have flexible funding initiatives; to improve
infrastructure ondataissuesandshare;toinvestindataadvocacye.gGenderOpenGovernment;to
fund the programme of data collection seriously; to have disintegrated at the sub - national level
data systems linkedwithnationaldatasystems;tohaveparametersandapproachestoalleviationof
the implementation of the LNOB:; to have disaggregated data fromglobaltolocallevelGLOBAL
data; to have funders become more active in collaborating; to have funders target more rural

projects; to have funders invest in infrastructural development; to have funders understand context
andusedatatomakeinvestmentdecisions;tohavefundersinvestinCVRS(administrativedatawith
full details on individuals); to have the funders fund CSOs involved in promoting citizen generated
data as part of the actualisation of the data revolution;

C. Researchers and Implementers

To do more data collection and analysis; to devise contextual solutions todifferentproblems;todo

more documentation on who is doing what and publish to open source; to have more initiatives
around orphans and HIV/AIDS positive people in the community; to close the gender gap in
agriculture; to improve research communication uptake; to train community leaders on SDGs and
data collection; to focus on the data revolution objectives by increasing the volume of data and
availability of real time data; to initiate availability of real time data; tobuildthecapacityofthelocal
structures at sub national level on data quality; to build capacity of local organisations to takeover
or conceptualise projects; to have more female data champions across Africa; to always do user
research and user testing; topromotecollaborationanddatasharingbypartnersatthesub-national
levels;toscoutexistingtoolsbeforebuildingneworsimilarones;toexplorescalablereplicableways
to make different data comparable and interpretable via harmonised data collectionapproaches;to
havecountydataprofiles-bigopencommunitydata;tobuildtowardsastrongerdataevidencebase;
to drive stories of change; to use analytical data skills for policy direction; to assist localization of
SDGs by highlighting indicators that are problematic; to develop a sound monitoring methodology;
to use holistic approaches that reflect actual context into bringing sustainable results.

D. WHO IS DOING WHAT AND WHERE?

In activities that are already happening towards Leaving No One Behind, who is doing what
and where?

Chiefs and community leaders are now involved in data collection; Kenya National Bureau of
Statistics representatives are now working more collaboratively with CSOs; Mawazo Challenge -
Health Sector Accessibility programs targeting University students; Kenya County Government; as
important data holders; Data users are now tracking poverty levels through consumption patterns;
Data collection, analysis, interpretation, dissemination and use now being done more actively by
CSOs, the South African National Treasury has establishedthemunicipalmoney.org.eaplatformfor
citizen services.

E. WHAT DO WE KNOW AND HOW DO WE KNOW IT?

In the solution seeking journey we need to establish known facts barring or enhancing
inclusivity.
Data is fundamentally political - need to engage with political economy; that there isinadequacyof
analysed data for decision making; we cannot as a country, reliably identify who the poorestofour
population are, where they are and what needs are already met or not. We know this because
poverty data is in averages and estimates; citizens are willing to actively participate in social,
economic or political decisions; the communities are ready to be engaged in decision making. The
level of showing interest has increased. there is some increase in level of public participation in
governance especially vetting of leaders. this is known through feedback from community forums
done and election of leaders. data disaggregation is still a big problem.

One cant easily find data from the national to household level; data is valuedfordecisionmaking,
but the relevant-timely data is not available at the sub-national levels; media, especially radio
reaches 85% of Tanzanian population especially those in rural areas.( Media Council,2016); data is
available in Tanzania but visualization is still a challenge. we know that there is too much data out
there but we still have to make people use it effectively. data collection must be a continuous
process in daily life; we know most open data initiatives have failed to reach significantscale(even
at the local level); We collectively know very little because we dont share; we know open data
through awareness and training and we get to know it by participating and having the experience
through involvementwiththeproject;Iknowgovernmentisdoingthebestinensuringdatacollected
is used for decision making; Vertical integration (Data + Coalitions +Politics) Research; Data driven
decisions are limited at all levels.

Data quality is a major challenge; Small area statistics i.e. data relating to the lowest level of
administration is lacking in all developing countries; Central government appreciates data but is
reluctant to fund its generation. We know because of the policies and decisions at central and
subnational level; There is a lot of data out there, the problem is visualization, synergy between
actors. There is a lot of re-inventing the wheel.

F. TOOLS, TYPE & USE:

What type of tools will we use in our all citizen engagement journey?

Questionnaires, trainings workshops philosophy, videography, research; to be more strategic than

tactical. tools should be allowed to proliferate and government should build end user mechanisms;
simple mobile phones pre loaded with data collection tools; up to date LGMD tool in local
government; integrated tools fitforpurpose.networkandpolicyanalysisdevelopment;convergence
of mobile, internet/web and broadcast media (traditional); social accountability tools to support the
use of data; ensure the tools used are translated to local language.mediadatajournalismandarts;
UNDESA- borrow from them the situation analysis of older people; AU- monitoring and evaluation
domestication tool; GPSDD- sub national tool kit; WCCD- city data model and validation; Utilize
both qualitative and quantitative techniques in data generation; ALIDADE TECH- borrow how to
choose a tech tool; Medium.com/civic tech; Reports, surveys,dataanalysisprogrammes;handheld
devices like tablets, mobile phones, PAPI (paper aided personal interview)

G. METRICS:

What measures do we need to take from what we know to LNOB?

Faster governmentresponsivenesstodatainitiativesisneeded;anenablingenvironmentisrequired;
According to the analysis of countyprojects,prioritiesareusuallynotbasedonanyreasonabledata
information; There needs to be moreaccuratedataonindividualincomehouseholds,births,deaths,
stunted growth cases, financial flows to sub national level(direct +indirect/donor +public + others);
The administrators at the grassroots i.e in the sub national level are playing abigrolebybeingpart
of the project and enlightening the locals on theimportanceoftheproject;Communityengagement
& participation is needed; Government agencies implementing programmes relating to the data
revolution should be included; How data affects the development of a country; Need for legal +
policy framework adoption for older people at national + regional levels; Need forcitizengenerated
data; UNDESA=Adoption of situational analysis tool for older people-Malawi.(Suggestion); Work
towards institutional growth ofthepublicsector;Definethedenominator;Worktowardsequalactive
census.

H. UPCOMING EVENTS:

What LNOB events are lined up and when are they taking place?

National census in Kenya that will require quality data; Sote Na SDGs in November 2017; Sports
for SDGs in Kenya; Equity week by IBP; CSO consultation with NBS ontheStatisticsAct2015and
CSO guidelines; Data visualisationEvent-Dlab08/09/2017Course;RighttoKnowDay-28/09/2017;
Dreams Stakeholders meeting to beheldinDar-es-Salaam;SchoolofDataexpertsmeetingtobe
held in end of September 2017 in Dar; Afrilabs -annual gathering in Cairo, Egypt October 2017
18th-20th; Conference for Governors in Kenya - a platform that can be useful to highlight theneed
for more decisions based on data; Abidjan 23-24th of November- Initiatives for Data for Equity
(IDEA) Meeting with AfDB; Aids Impact Conference coming up in November in South Africa; World
Bank GPSA in November 2017; State of Accountability in October 2017, Hague; Data journalists
convention; African Tech Hubs Meeting at Tshimologong in Johannesburg from 13th to 14th of
November; Civic Tech Innovation Network www.medium.com/civictech;

INCLUSIVE CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT:

This session was structured around three topics which the participants discussed and presented
their deliberations and findings. In the current world where technology is on the rise an enabler of
better citizen engagement, where governments are becoming much open and perhaps can be
persuaded to collaborate and where urban centres are so fluid how can we achieve the ultimate
citizen engagement?

I. Tech & Sub-National Data: What is the true role of technology in a world where real
people are not geeks?

The world consists of all sorts of people who amidst the technology world comprised of: the tech
savvy media, application developers, technology consultantsarecompletelyobliviousoftechnology
solutions. Technology as one innovation hub has/occupies the role of creating solutions through,
data portals, application software, mobilesolutionsthroughSMS,USSDetc,satellitegenerateddata
as well. The technologically collected data is then communicated/channeled to the relevant
bodies/entities. Already existing structures like in government, timely feedback may become
hindrances to data and information dissemination which consequently affects rapid decision making.
Establishment of better structures towards usage and dissemination of data andinformationwillgo
a long way into ensuring that the data and information is impactful while maintaining data privacy
and confidentiality.

Some of the barriers to technology use include the following:

Cost to the end user;
Digital illiteracy;
Non-responsiveness to change-technology;;
Existing government policy.

Shortfall:
Governments hindrance in opening up certain datasetsisstillahugebarriertodatadissemination.
The fact that government officials are gradually warming up to the idea of data, its usage and
dissemination is good progress.

II. Working with Government: How can we better collaborate with Government? What do we
need to know? What are the common things we hear or know about Government?;
Government is largely known to be: bureaucratic, technology shy, rigid and secretive.

How do we communicate with Government?

When we communicate with Government, we need to put into consideration the timeframes set by
existing legislation to be able to exercise patience in regards to service delivery.
We also need to establish how government is set to benefit. This way we are able to structure our
communication while incorporating their interests so as to also manage any expectations theymay
have.

We need to continue following the same communication channels and procedures laid out by
government as opposed to trying to recreate their own communication channels and procedures;
Provide room for co-ownership of projects even if it means aligning our projects to theirs; Offer
solutions to bridge any gaps identified as opposed to continuously criticizing the gaps; Use the
official communication channels; Providing as much information to the government as we
need/require.

How do we collaborate better with Government?

Involve government through consultations to also establishandunderstandtheirneeds;Weneedto

establish which office to go to first for a specific service so that we follow the set protocol; For
successful collaboration, it is ideal to alignouractivitieswiththoseoftheGovernmentbody;Involve
the government as early as the project concept and not at the final stages of the projects; Share
feedback with the government through reports; Invite them for events and acknowledge their
presence and applaud their role in the project; Align projects and projects with government's own
projects towards national development.

Suggestions as to how to tackle the barriers towards successful government collaboration were
identified as solving the identified barriers by curtailing suspicion through better trust building
strategies, communicating through the established communication channels and ensuringthatthey
are involved in projects from the onset to build more ownership and responsibility over the projects.

III. The Urban Question: How do we achieve citizen engagement and participation in cities?

Challenges:

Size of the population in the urban space poses a serious challenge to reaching out to every citizen;
Competing priorities; Urban culture-the fact that the cities are very cosmopolitan with every
individual minding their own business only; Lack of framework for engagement among urban
dwellers; Non - appreciation of the value of data/incentives for engagement; The city is constantly
changing in terms of the population and authority. The probability of having the same group of
people in a certain area over a period of time is limited; Lack of accountability due to the nature of
the set urban structures; All cities are different;

Opportunities and Solutions:

Identify pressure points to bring people together/collective pain; Find the current forms of
engagement and strengthen if need be; Such communities work with communities, leaders and
residents; Develop a framework of engagement tailor made for cities in terms of approaches and
timing; Identify how to initiate action oriented activism along aggressive timelines to see progress
and achieve set deliverables;

CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT SHOWCASE:

This session was structured in such a way that different individuals working in different sectors
across the world got to share their use cases and projects along citizen engagement and
participation.

A. When Data, Youth & Art collide:

Charles Bundu
dLAB is an open working space where datafrommultiplesectorscanbecombined,processedand
shared to drive better policy and decision making.
It serves as an anchor for the Data Collaborative forLocalImpactenablingdataanalysisanduseto
become prominent.

dLAB focuses on four pillars:

Space management;
Partnership Engagement;
Participation;
Data use and service with the National Bureau of Statistics;
Currently, dLAB is working with PEPFAR on the Dreams project and Ramani Huria on the Open
Humanitarian District Maps.

B. How Lanet Umoja got its Medical Centre;

Chief Kariuki

This session was moderated by Chief Kariuki of the Lanet Umoja location in Nakuru North county.
He took the participants through the journey it has been for Lanet Umojacommunitytoacquirethe
medical centre. The journey began in 2015 immediately after the adoption of the SDGs by states.
With Chiefs Kariukis interest in the SDGs and the Open Institutes indomitable passion for citizen
data, a partnership materialized.

This journey began withtheconductofnumeroustrainings:dataanditsimportance,datacollection.

Consequently, the data was digitised by the Open Institute after which a data fair was organized
from which the data was analysed jointly (community, chief, assistant chiefs, Open Institute).

This led the community establishing their needs in order of priority as follows:

SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere;

SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages;
SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong opportunities for all;
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls;
SDG 6: Ensure available and sustainable water and sanitation for all.

The community of Lanet Umoja having accurately identified their needs, became better placed to
voice them andeventakeresponsibilitytobetterthemselvesasacommunity.Inthissamespirit,the
community engaged the then Governor Nakuru County Kinuthia Mburu through a written
memorandum listing their needs including a medical centre.

The Governors representativeandtheLanetUmojacommunitygotintoanegotiationsessionwhere

the Governors representative revealed to the community that money has already beenallocatedto
that and that the only barrier was a land to put up the medical centre. The community quickly
responded pointing out a cattle dip that was no longer in usage. An agreement was reached to
convert the cattle dip into the medical centre.

C. Web Foundations Open Data Lab Jakarta

Antya Windita

The Jakarta Lab is a non-profit data innovation lab based in Jakarta-Indonesia.Theyarepartofthe

World Wide Web Foundation founded by the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Their work is centred onutilisingopen(government)datato

find sustainable solutions to pressing social issues. They
startbyidentifyingapressingsocialproblemthatopendata
could help solve. Then, they team up with partners and
work from the bottom-up to develop, test, and refine
possible solutions; including identifying which key datasets
should be opened. One example from their work showed
that prioritising to only disclose several key datasets
relevant to a pressing problem, would help bridging the
trust gapbetweengovernmentandnon-governmentactors,
and help improving collaboration.

They were able to show that open data could stimulate

greaterdemandforinformation.Thekeystosuccesswerea
participatory, bottom-up process in which civil society
groups identified which datasetswouldbemostvaluableto
them, coupledwithclosecollaborationwiththegovernment
to build the trust neededtoreleasethatdataanapproach
they refer to as responsive open data model.

To enhance impact, they also share their learnings andmethodsopenlythroughtheproductionof

how-to guides, lessons learned papers, and training manuals and encourage others to use them.
Their work is focused on four key pillars: Research, Incubation, Training, and Engagement. These
four pillars make sure their work creates practical models and a solid baseofknowledgeabletalent
locally.

D. Map Kibera;
Joshua Ogure
Kibera for the longest time has been identified on maps as the blank spot until 2009. In2009,Map
Kibera came into Kibera with a mission to have the community map their are in such a way as to
have a free and open map of Kibera.
We identified the youth as
the best group to workwith
in doing the mapping and
hence mobilised them.
Through citizen journalism,
the map was able to help
the Kibera community map
their healthcare facilities,
security facilities, waterand
sanitation and education.
We invited the Ministry of
Education to look at our
map of Kibera and they

were surprised at the existing facts displayed in the map. In their records for example, they had a
total of 78 schools while we were able to map 350 schools.
By mapping the schools and their facilities and publicising on the website, parents now areableto
identify the schools they want to take their kids to knowing the kind of facilities and the fees
structure. In addition to sharing the map with the government, wehaveadditionallysharedthemap
with civil society organizations who have used it to better strategise on their activities.

By better identifying their area, the community after identifying their needs, are able to confidently
communicatetheirneedstotherightgovernmentofficials.Anexampleisthelobbyingofstreetlights
in a specific area leading to the reduction of crime.

D. Ramani Huria.
Innocent Maholi
This is a community
based mapping project
that largely involves the
training of University
students and the
community towards
developing highly
accurate maps of the
most flood prone areas.
After presenting the
maps to the community,
the maps are then
presented to the
community to review and
add any more
information that may not
have been captured.

Ivan Gayton
The project is all centred around
reducing the impact of floods in
different wards in Dar-es-Salaam
currently working in Magomani Road.
The reduction of the community's
vulnerability to floods is our
motivation. It is through this that we
work to add the communitys

knowledge of their localities by engaging them to come up with maps. Taking the youth in
Universities to practically develop software geared towards flood reduction is a plus.

E. Putting data to work for community information systems

Herbert Buyondo
The Community Information Systems (CIS) was initially created to respond to the ever-growing
need for the provision of accurate, regular and reliable data/information to facilitate evidence based
planning, implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Government and other development partner
programmes at all levels of
administration.
Some of the objectives of the CIS
include: the regular monitoring of
the effectiveness of poverty
eradication initiatives across
Government, enhance the use of
reliable and accurate data for the
efficient utilisation of resources,
support participatory government
planning at various government
levels, identification of
socio-economic needs at the
household levels.

The communication information
systems generates data at the household, parish and sub-county levels. At these different levels, the
leaders together with the communities around the said levels, identify the data gaps which they are
able to handle. They then liaise with set committees to try and find solutions to the gaps.
The data is then shared and consequently analysed at the District level by the Heads of Department.
The data digitisation process is pretty simple as the system password is shared across the said
levels where any community member will digitise.

F. Data Zetu:

Ismail Biro
Data Zetu in collaboration with other organizations such as Code for Tanzania, sahara SPARKS,
Tanzania bora, SBC4D and IREX aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence
based decisions to improve their lives.
Data Zetu works with stakeholders to
build skills and develop digital and offline
tools that make information accessible to
all. Data Zetu is currently working with
communities in Temeke, Kyela and
Mbeya to discover what matters most to
them.
In our approach we use three strategies:

Engaging with communities to
understand how information can help
them address local challenges;
Developing digital and offline
tools that help people produce and
access actionable data;
Help communities build skills in finding, cleaning and working with data.

Another strategy we are currently using to get the youth on board is the use of art such as song,
dance, drawing, bureau painting, radio dramas to express their communities issues.

SUB - NATIONAL DATA INITIATIVES INFLUENCE ON POLICY:

How do Sub-National Data Initiatives Influence Policy and Resources at the National, Regional and
International levels?

These session helped establish a hierarchy of actors in policy implementation.

What are some of the issues that go into influencing the rapid implementation of policy?

Developing legal framework; Building trustworthy institutions; Awareness creation of the role of
CSOs through different tools such as IEC materials that are written with the target recipients in mind;
Provision of a secure environment by Government; Comprehensive and consistent Monitoring and
Evaluation of the impact of projects; Citizen engagement at the planning stages; Looking into what is
ideally achievable in the scaling process; The creation of both online and offline information sharing
platforms for maximum impact; Empower the citizens to talk for themselves which goes a long way
into project sustainability.

This session was aimed at bringing out top agenda towards better citizen engagement and
participation. The discussion was centred around the following three topics:

ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
(CSO, GOVERNMENT, PRIVATE SECTOR, MEDIA & ACADEMIA)

This discussion was actively steered by Angela Kageni:

1) Direct Citizen Engagement with examples such as:
a) Public Participation Forum;
b) Jamii Forum impact stories;
c) Ownership;
d) Project designing with
communities;
e) Learning
materials/Approaches.
2) Digesting information for citizens
use through the following:
a. Pre-budget forum
preparation;
b. Coordinated inputs;
c. Feedback as an incentive
for engagement.
3) Policy Regulation & Operation :
a) Resource mobilisation;
b) Info-mediaries and
Intermediaries;
c) Legal framework for participation.
4) Legitimizing citizen generated data to address data gaps at the Sub-national and National
level.

Action: Government, CSO, private and public sector collaboration strategy which will be
geared towards solving identified challenges:
a) Lack of trust between government and other actors;
b) Lack of adequate and timely planning, standards and coordination between the
government and civil society.

II. LINKING SUBNATIONAL INITIATIVES TO THE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL SPACE:

1) Data engagement frameworks:

Sub-national, National and Global representatives;

Examples/Use cases:

Budget process;
Citizen awareness and
engagement;
Alignment of priorities;
thematic areas being
geographical/regional e.g
Chief Kariuki
Policy alignment,
engagement and advocacy
towards sustainability;
Data sharing
frameworks based on the data
standards,
Co-ordination mechanisms that help create trust between the local and national
representatives;
Mapping all actors with a case study of Ghana;
Policy and legal framework;
Ensure we have a feedback mechanism to assist in closing the loops;
Data communications , infomediaries and visualizations tied into citizen engagement.

Nigeria Case Study:

Data and Infrastructure capacity at the local level;

Data management, impact analysis, local decision making and life change. The data that
shows and tells the impact stories;
Enabling tools for the citizens

Co-ordination:

Multi-stakeholder engagements at all levels;

Active disclosure of information/proactive sharing of data;
If access to information is not done well, it affects the next level of access to data;
Use of citizen data to solve problems;
More data sampling should be done to help in the early identification of trends and patterns
in the larger data for more accurate in solving community issues;
Ownership of the process by citizens participation in the data collection exercise.

III. COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE:

A platform of people in the
Civil Society space,
government, public sector
come together within a
particular time frame to
review progress in
community engagement and
participation agenda.









The following were highlighted as relevant pointers:

To have a community of practice to steer agenda of more citizen
participation both at the local and eventually at the global levels;
Tohaveactiveandconsistentdiscussionsinitiallyatthelocallevelbutdevelopingto
the global levels;
To have shared meeting agendas;
To establish what the shared pain is amongst the different actors;

Steps towards the establishment of a Community of Practice:

Identification of the Community of Practice support group such as the Secretariat
Creation of whatsapp groups with all the actors with the Secretariat as administrators;
Signing up members to be part of the COP platform.

RECOMMENDATIONS & WAY FORWARD:

Commitments
Follow up with data disaggregation by on-going initiatives in Uganda and Indonesia;
Engagement in raising the voices of citizens and improving capacity to generate and use
data;
Initiate change to the community through data and art;
Advocate for legitimization of citizen generated data in my county government;
Share our experiences as TI-Kenya on our innovations andgooddatausageonthecreated
community of practice;
Apply the gained experience on engaging with government on data related issues;
Share the amazing insights and learning about sub-national innovations and use the same
with my colleagues and urge them to share;
To get in touch with Map Kibera for partnerships;
To follow up with Data Zetu and Dlab for an MAVC Tanzania learning event;
To work with county governments to start and support the community of practice;
Share and be more open while having discussions on our projects, data and methodology;
Gather/collect data in my neighbourhood to spot where help/assistance/intervention is
needed;
Explore the possibility of replicating a case study shared in Buntwani 2017;
To seek out a project or support sub-national engagements providing a platform forcitizen
voices to be heard;
To get in contact with UBOS Uganda and to work more with sub-national to understand
their systems alongside working with community information systems;
Identify existing mechanisms for frameworks - legal, policy and coordinated framework for
citizen engagement;
Establish opportunities for joint work through trainings, scoping studies and action research;
100% participate in future Buntwani events as I have gotten to learn so much;
Involve the community in decision making in all my activities;
Follow up with Jakarta lab, Uganda cases (UBOS) and Chief Kariuki;
Design a context specific engagement strategy for urban partners;
JamiiForums model can be replicated in any African Country easily. Contact Maxence;
To include the community of practice in our strategy for engagement and delivery;
To advocate for open data sharing to make a change in the communities;
We need to mobilise resources for our CSOs as part of the data revolution to inform the
sustainable development goals;
To help coordinate the community of practice joint scoping/mapping of data ecosystem;
priorities and thematic areas (national sub-national,data-users,producers/sources,needs,
gaps, challenges.

Dont Forget:

Data disaggregation by age, legal policy framework to ensure the elderly are not left behind;
To involve all necessary players in the data ecosystem;
To observe gender equality at the next Buntwani;
Put up the Community of Practice up and running;
To have in place a robust secretariat to help and facilitate the sharing of experiences from
various partners;
In as much as our priority is at the local levels, what is happening elsewhere can influence
your work;
Media and arts has power to contribute towards data driven communities;
To emphasize joint resource mobilization for the Community of Practice;
To make open data access a possibility within the confines practicable to me;
That leaving no one behind is not just a slogan;
We are all working for the better world and improved citizen lives;
To make data accessible;
To ask what the use case is;
Blog on my experiences at Buntwani 2017;
You always bear the solution to any problem, just THINKandletDATAbeyourwitnessand
evidence;
That government officials are people too hence seek to learn from rather than teach;
Change starts in communities and data capacity play a huge role;
Buntwani 2017;
Abidjan Data for gender workshop in October the 11th of October 2017;
Data Zetu approach to the community for local impact;
Dont forget to engage everyone on data revolution;
Dont forget the unconference setup of Buntwani and how impactful it was;
Dont forget to talk more about data;

We Should:

Commit to supporting the establishment of a multi - stakeholder framework to co-ordinate

data generation and sharing at all levels of government;
Amplify citizen voices through data in a language that is largely understood;
Keep the conversation going on citizen engagement;
Get better at documenting and sharing our work as well as finding collaborative means;
We should form a platform for sharing our success stories as a community;
Ensure a complete data cycle to action framework to ensure data generated at the sub-
national level be instrumental in decision making;
Commit to the agreeable action points and involve more media, artists and youth in the
consultation processes;
Work towards implementation of the SDGs;
Work on how to steer relationships with local government;
Keep the conversation going with the team at Buntwani 2017;
Bring all stakeholders together in the value of data;
Build an African community of practice that is all inclusive;
Have Buntwani more than once a year;
Build bridges between national, statistics officers and communities;
Remain committed to the data revolution agenda;
To involve the local community representatives in the next event;

Gender equality that is advocacy based on data;

Continue working with each other and not re-invent the wheel;
Build an African application systems;
Share best practice stories;
Weshouldcreatesustainablecommunicationplatformstosharewhatisgoingonintermsof
successes and failures;
Train others further on the importance of data;
Be open to adopting traditional standards when collecting citizen generated data;
We should include enough local decision makers who are actuallyseeingthechallengesby
the people on the ground;
We should not forget to engage donors to fund initiatives through the Community of
Practice;
We should engage the media and citizens in our work to make more use of data;
We shouldadvocateforinvolvementofdevelopmentpartners,governmentsandcivilsociety
organizations in the generation of real time data for improved service delivery;

APPENDIX 1:

PARTICIPANTS LIST:

NAME ORGANIZATION

CHARLES BUNDU dLAB

OMAR BAKARI Data Zetu

MAXENCE MELO Jamii Forums

SANNE VAN DER BERG MAVC

DAVIS ADIENO GPSDD

BENEDICT ORINDI APHRC

JOSHUA OWINO Map Kibera

MARK IRURA Development Gateway

JOHNSTONE BAGUMA ToroDev- Uganda

DONALD MOGENI World Vision

PETER DA COSTA Hewlett Foundation

HALIMA NGOMBO Pact Tanzania

ROSE AIKO World Bank

SIMON MKANYA Kyela NGOs Network

AMOS B. KAYEMBELE Kyela D.C

ISMAIL BIRO Data Zetu-Tanzania Bora Initiative

GEOFFREY CHAMBOR DLI

SOMOE MKWACHU dLAB

STEPHEN CHACHA MCC-PEPFAR

JOHN MARITIM Elgeyo Marakwet County Government

INDRA DE LANEROLLE JamLab University of Witwatersrand

OHURUOGU VICTOR GPSDD, UNF

MITCH BLASER MCC-PEPFAR

TITUS OGALO Transparency International

HEIDI MUMIA County Government of Kwale

INNOCENT MAHOLI Hot/Ramani Huria

HASSAN MSHINDA COSTECH

AGAPITI MAIDAY DLI

ANTYA WIDITA Web Foundations Open Data Lab Jakarta

ANGELA KAGENI Development Initiative

BOAZ MUGOTO Creco

NNENNA NWAKANMA Web Foundation

CHRIS MUKURIA MAVC

MAANA KATULI Tanzania Bora Initiative Data Zetu

NURU MGWAZA Data Zetu

ELSY SAINNA ICJ Kenya

ELIJAH AMBASA Kenya Association of Manufacturers

BUYONDO HERBERT Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)

EMMANUEL PETRO TACAIDS - Mbeya

JOHNSON KAGUGUBE Development Research & Training

FLORENCE SYEVUO SDGs Kenya Forum