Global Health
Health programmes can only deliver what their data can see. We help health teams build the systems to collect, trust, and act on the information that saves lives — from community health worker apps to national surveillance dashboards.
Clarity for
complex data.
Ona Insights helps organisations working in complex environments understand their data, build systems that fit their reality, and make decisions that stick.
What we do
A connected journey, not a checklist.
Understand → Design → Build → Insight → Grow. We move with you across every stage, treating data as a living system rather than a one-time deliverable.
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Understand what you have and what you need
We start by making sense of your data, your systems, and your goals, so you have clarity on what matters and what's missing before anything is built.
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Design the right approach
We map out the technology and process options to support your operations and decisions, bringing structure to complexity and defining a system that fits your context.
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Build systems that work in the real world
We combine best-in-class tools with custom development to create systems tailored to your workflows, teams, and environment—practical, resilient, sustainable.
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Turn data into insight and action
We create dashboards, analytics, and intelligent tools that help you understand what's happening and make confident, timely decisions.
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Support you as you grow
We work alongside your team to build internal capacity so your systems can be owned, maintained, and evolved long after implementation.
Sectors
Built for the real world.
Constrained infrastructure, limited connectivity, varied data literacy—we design for the conditions our clients actually face.
Climate
Land restoration, disaster response, and agricultural programmes generate complex data across vast geographies. We help climate organisations bring that data together into systems that track what's changing and guide what to do next.
Supply Chain
Last-mile supply chains lose visibility at exactly the point where it matters most. We build the monitoring and reporting systems that give programme managers real-time sight of stock, cold chain, and delivery performance in the field.
Education
Learning outcomes are rarely measured with the same rigour as enrollment. We help ed-tech programmes build the data collection and analysis systems that reveal what students are actually learning — and where interventions will have the most impact.
Social Protection
Getting the right support to the right people depends on data that most programmes don't have in one place. We build beneficiary tracking, case management, and feedback systems that make large-scale social programmes manageable and accountable.
Citizen Engagement
Feedback from communities is only valuable if someone can hear and act on it. We build the feedback, complaints, and CRM systems that turn citizen voices into programme intelligence — at scale, across channels, and in the field.
How we help
A strategic partner, not a vendor.
We bring together best-in-class modern data tools (often open source) with deep sector expertise. Whether you're building a data foundation from scratch or optimizing an existing system, we work with you as a strategic partner.
Assessment & Gap Analysis
Pinpoint what's working, what's missing, and where to focus first. Honest diagnostics before any build.
Advisory
Senior partners embedded with your leadership to shape data strategy, governance, and decision frameworks.
Implementation
We pair open-source platforms with custom engineering to deliver systems that hold up in the field.
Training & Enablement
Capacity building that meets your team where they are—from analysts to programme leads.
Ongoing Support
Long-horizon partnership: maintenance, evolution, and on-call expertise as your needs change.
Why Ona Insights
What sets us apart.
Track record
We've done this before
A decade-plus of field deployments across health, climate, and humanitarian programmes—our patterns are earned, not theorised.
Diagnostic-first
We make sense before we build
Diagnosis comes first. We map decisions, data flows, and incentives so the right system gets built—not just any system.
Field-tested
We design for real-world use
Low-bandwidth, offline-tolerant, multilingual, role-aware. Designed for the people who'll actually use it.
Open by default
We're technology-agnostic and sustainable
Open source where it serves you. Proprietary when it's right. Always documented, always handover-ready.
Long-horizon
We meet you earlier and stay longer
Strategy through stewardship. We're with you upstream of the brief and downstream of the launch.
About us
"Ona" to see.
A Nairobi-based data and AI partner for mid-sized organisations operating in complex, field-based environments.
Ona Insights combines strategic advisory and tailored technology to build systems that work in the conditions our clients face: constrained infrastructure, limited connectivity, and varying degrees of data literacy.
Our work starts upstream—helping clients identify the decisions and metrics that actually matter. Not just what's measurable, but what's worth measuring. And we don't just deliver and move on: we embed knowledge transfer into every engagement, leaving your team more capable and ready to build on what we've created.
Our name reflects what we do. Ona means "to see" in Swahili—because at our core, we help organisations see their data more clearly, understand their realities more deeply, and make better decisions as a result.
Ona Insights builds on a strong foundation as a strategic spin-off from the Data & Analytics division at Ona. Our team brings together experienced data scientists, engineers, and development practitioners with a proven track record of delivering high-impact systems across sectors and geographies.
Team
The people behind the work.
Data scientists, engineers, and development practitioners with shared field experience across health, climate, and humanitarian programmes.
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Amina Kibet
Managing Partner
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David Otieno
Head of Data Engineering
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Wanjiru Mwangi
Director of Advisory
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Samuel Njoroge
Lead Data Scientist
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Fatima Hassan
Implementation Lead
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Joseph Kamau
Head of Engagement
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Grace Achieng
Senior Systems Architect
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Brian Mutiso
Partnerships
Blog
Notes from the field.
Field Notes
Why measurement starts with the decision, not the dashboard
Most analytics projects begin with data. The best ones begin with the call you're trying to make.
Systems
Designing for low-connectivity field operations
Offline-first patterns we've learned from a decade of deployments across rural health programmes.
Practice
Open source as a sustainability strategy
How to choose tools your team can own, extend, and walk away from us with—on day one.