Flagship work
A multi-agency early-warning bulletin system for Tanzania
A platform that lets several national agencies contribute their inputs and produces impact-based forecast bulletins — with the maps drawn, the documents formatted, and every change recorded.
The problem
Impact-based early warning in Tanzania involves more than one agency: meteorology for the weather, water for floods, geology for ground hazards, health, agriculture and environment for what the impacts mean. Their inputs used to be assembled by hand into bulletins — slow, inconsistent, and hard to audit.
The outcome
What took a working group hours of manual assembly becomes a scheduled, reproducible output — and the same design generalises to any multi-agency reporting problem, from seasonal agricultural outlooks to flood situation reports.
What was built
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A role-based web dashboard where each agency enters its own inputs on forms and maps
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Two bulletin products: a five-day severe-weather impact-based forecast, and a three-day multi-hazard bulletin combining all agencies
- 03
Automatic map generation of Tanzania at region or district level, with alert colours, labels, water bodies and hazard icons
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Bilingual English/Kiswahili templates, generated as Word documents and converted to PDF
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Data bridges so one agency's inputs pre-fill the next stage, plus a browsable history and admin audit log
The same design fits any multi-agency report
Seasonal agricultural outlooks, flood situation reports, environmental monitoring bulletins. If several institutions feed one document, this is the shape.
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