We deploy trained local researchers into communities across the Juba Valley and wider Horn of Africa to collect ground-level intelligence on the real economy — fishermen, farmers, traders, entrepreneurs — that no one has compiled before.
The Port of Kismayo handles cargo, fish, and trade flows that are commercially and strategically significant. Almost none of it has been measured, tracked, or reported in a structured form.
We are building the dataset that fills this gap — not a one-time report, but an ongoing intelligence operation covering the real economy of the Juba Valley.
We hire researchers from Kismayo and surrounding communities — people with local networks, language fluency, and lived experience of the Juba Valley economy. Training covers systematic data collection, interviewing, and verification protocols.
Researchers work in the communities they know: fishing camps at the port, markets in the town center, farms along the river. They collect structured data on prices, volumes, trade routes, livelihoods, and conditions.
Data is reviewed, cross-checked, and structured into publishable formats. Methodology is documented so findings can be verified and replicated. Our research tools and hiring framework ensure consistency across cycles.
Reports and briefs are published for investors, policymakers, and development organizations. The intelligence goes to the people who make decisions about the Horn of Africa — and need data that doesn't come from Nairobi.
Private equity, sovereign funds, and infrastructure investors who need reliable ground-level economic intelligence for a region where reliable data is nearly nonexistent.
Donor governments, UN agencies, and African Union bodies who design aid programs and need granular local data for program allocation and conflict sensitivity.
USAID, FCDO, World Bank, and EU programs that fund assessments — and are increasingly looking for locally-led research partners who embed in communities, not brief visits.
Editors and scholars who need exclusive local intelligence on a region that is regularly in the global headlines — and want more than diaspora interviews and satellite imagery.
We are building the ground-level intelligence infrastructure that the world's decision-makers need to understand what's actually happening in the Juba Valley — from the fishermen on the beach to the traders at the port, from the farms along the river to the markets of Kismayo.
The data does not exist yet. We are creating it.