About Husika
Husika is a product developed and maintained by Bunifu Technologies Ltd for ICPAC. It is a communication and feedback system that helps governments, NGOs, and partners deliver early warnings and advisories that reach people where they are and create feedback loops that improve decisions.
Our Mission
To ensure that early warnings and advisories reach every person who needs them, through channels they actually use. We believe that effective communication can save lives and that feedback from communities should shape the messages that follow.
Our Vision
A world where every early warning reaches its intended audience and every piece of feedback makes the next message better. Through structured communication systems and collaborative partnerships, we envision communities that are informed, prepared, and actively engaged in their own safety and resilience.
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we do
Reach
Every warning should reach every person who needs it, using the channels they actually have and use.
Clarity
Messages should be clear, actionable, and ready to act on when they arrive.
Feedback
Every message creates an opportunity to learn and improve the next advisory.
Trust
Content flows through proper approval levels and comes from verified, trusted sources.
Our Story
10
years since 2016
Husika’s roots go back to the 2016 IGAD Climate Challenge Hackathon, organised by ICPAC. The three-day event brought together innovators from across East Africa to find practical ways to address climate change and climate-related disasters. Team Bunifu, from Baringo, Kenya, placed second with Skizi SMS.
The idea was to make weather and climate information easier to find, receive and use. Skizi SMS combined a tiered structure with tags and location to direct content to relevant users. Its subscription model let people choose topics of interest, while a knowledge base was designed to provide useful weather and climate information.
That early idea grew through Bunifu Technologies’ collaboration with ICPAC into Husika. Feedback became central to the platform: people receiving information could respond, helping organisations understand local conditions and improve what they shared.
Today, Husika helps institutions and communities exchange climate information and early warnings through mobile, web, voice and SMS channels, connecting timely information with the people who can act on it.
Impact
Connecting information to action.
Communities need more than a forecast. They need timely warnings when hazards threaten, weather and climate forecasts for planning, and trusted information that helps them understand changing conditions. The challenge is getting each message to the right people through channels they can use.
Husika brings four kinds of communication into one platform. Early warnings address alerts, threats and hazards. Forecasts help people plan ahead. Feeds share other useful content, including news, articles, press releases, bulletins, commentary and research. Broadcasts amplify that content through WhatsApp, SMS, voice, Telegram, mobile apps and the web. Feedback gives recipients a way to respond and helps organisations understand what is happening on the ground.
In Lodwar, Turkana, ICPAC and its partners launched Husika’s mobile and web application to strengthen communication with remote and underserved communities in the Karamoja Cluster. In Port Sudan, ICPAC, Save the Children International and the Sudan Meteorological Authority trained national teams to operate the platform, from reviewing information and preparing alerts to delivering messages by SMS and voice in Arabic and local languages.
These are steps toward a broader goal: helping trusted institutions share the right information, reach people where they are, and listen to what communities report back. Husika connects the warning, the wider context and the conversation that follows.
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