AfriScout: A GC Social Enterprise
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AfriScout: A GC Social Enterprise Details
AfriScout was established as a Social Enterprise subsidiary of Project Concern International (PCI) in 2017. PCI is a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health, end hunger and overcome hardship—resulting in meaningful and measurable change in people's lives. AfriScout is dedicated to revolutionizing the way pastoralists in Africa find pasture and water for their animals using the power of satellite and mobile technology. AfriScout offers is a mobile subscription service that provides pastoralists in Africa current water and vegetation conditions on localized grazing maps, enabling them to make more accurate and cost-effective migration decisions, improve pasture management and collaboration, reduce the risk of herd loss, and ultimately transform their lives. The mobile application was designed directly with pastoralists and is based on substantive piloting, research, and field work in pastoral communities in Eastern Africa.AfriScout is serving an ever-growing number of communities in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. Pastoralists are given a 6-month free trial period to test the app over the course of a dry season before they are asked to purchase an annual subscription.
