County budgets, tenders and public projects — explained in plain language, in the places you already gather. Know what your county planned, what it spent, and what actually got built.
Free to read. No jargon. Built with residents, for residents.
Three simple jobs. We read the documents nobody has time to read, then hand the findings back to the people they belong to.
We take the county's thick budget and spending reports and turn them into short, plain summaries: what was allocated to your ward, what was spent, and where the gaps are.
Every funded project gets a simple status: planned, started, stalled or complete. We follow the roads, boreholes, clinics and classrooms your money was meant to build.
Residents tell us what they see. We verify, organise and publish it — so a missing culvert or an abandoned dispensary becomes a documented, traceable public record.
Public money is public information. In practice, though, the documents that show how county money moves are long, technical and locked in PDFs that most residents never see. By the time a road is finished — or quietly abandoned — the budget cycle has already closed.
Uwazi Mashinani closes that gap. We are a grassroots civic transparency initiative working with residents, community-based organisations, boda boda associations, market traders and local journalists across Kenya. We read the paperwork, then sit with people at the baraza, in the market and on the radio, and explain it in words that make sense.
We are not a watchdog that barks from a distance. We are neighbours with a notebook — documenting what was promised, what was paid for, and what actually exists on the ground.
Ordinary residents, community groups, traders, youth leaders and journalists.
Open documents, plain summaries, community verification, public conversation.
Barazas, market stalls, half-built roads and the notebooks where it all gets written down.
Residents and community leaders who have used our summaries in real meetings.
I used to sit through the baraza nodding without understanding a single figure. Now I bring the one-page summary and ask specific questions. The chief knows I have read it.
Our CBO used the project tracker to show that a dispensary had been funded two years running and still had no roof. It was back in the assembly within a month.
As a local reporter I need documents I can quote. Uwazi Mashinani gives me the numbers, the ward and the source page. That is the difference between a rumour and a story.
We are preparing the first set of county budget summaries and the project tracker. Leave your details and we will tell you the moment your county goes live — or send us a tip-off about a project near you.
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