SautiKenya turns public participation from a legal checkbox into a real record. Residents weigh in on county budgets, projects, and policies by web, SMS, or USSD — and no process can close until the county publishes an official response.
Free for residents — no smartphone or data bundle required.
Kenyan courts have struck down county budgets and development plans over inadequate public participation — the Finance Act 2023 precedent made it clear that a badly-documented baraza is a legal liability, not just a formality. Most counties still run participation on paper attendance sheets and verbal promises, with no real record of what was raised or how — or whether — it was answered.
A sign-in sheet proves someone showed up — it says nothing about what they raised or whether it was addressed.
A web form alone leaves out residents without a smartphone or data bundle — often the people most affected by a project.
When a decision is challenged later, "we held a meeting" isn't a record — a published, dated official response is.
One rule sits underneath everything SautiKenya does — it's enforced in code, not just policy.
A budget line, a development project, a policy — an officer opens it for input, scoped to a county, ward, or sub-location.
Submit a structured proposal, join the discussion, respond to a survey, or RSVP to a baraza — on the web, by SMS, or by dialing a USSD code.
Code-enforced, not a UI nicety: an official response must be published before a process can be marked closed — no exceptions, no workaround.
Residents submit a clear stance — support, oppose, or suggest changes — with a reason, not just an unstructured comment thread.
Mirrors the County Governments Act's petition right — a petition auto-flips to threshold-met once enough residents sign, and still requires an official response to close.
Record a public meeting, get an AI transcript with speaker turns, and a Recap of key themes and commitments made to residents.
A dated, generated record of exactly what public input was received and how it was answered — the direct answer to a legal challenge.
Residents can flag content for review; rate limiting, submission caps, and duplicate-content checks keep the record trustworthy.
English and Swahili notifications and SMS/USSD copy, keyboard-operable forms, and screen-reader-friendly labels throughout.
From a single ward baraza to a countywide budget process, SautiKenya gives a county's public participation office a system that enforces its own compliance — not a policy document nobody checks against.
Restrict an officer to their own ward or sub-location and its descendants — county-wide visibility stays with Admins.
Process counts by status, proposal counts by stance and by channel (Web/SMS/USSD), petition and signature totals, in one view.
Participants with a verified phone get an SMS reminder as a process nears its close date — no one misses a deadline silently.
Every officer action is logged — who opened a process, who published a response, and when — a real trail, not a claim.
Schedule a public meeting with a real location pin, and let residents RSVP from the web or reply to an SMS.
Rate limiting, OTP lockout, CAPTCHA on registration, and a signing key that refuses to run on a default — hardened, not assumed safe.
SautiKenya isn't a self-service signup for counties — we set up your scopes and officer roles together. For residents, it's already free to use.
View open processes and petitions, submit a proposal, join a discussion, or sign a petition — on the web, or by SMS/USSD if that's easier. No account needed just to read.
View Open Processes →Bring SautiKenya to your county's public participation office — we'll set up your county and ward scopes, officer roles, and first process together.
Talk to Us →Every process is public — no login needed to read a proposal, a response, or a baraza digest.
No process can be closed without a published official response.
