Talk to someone who knows.
The knowledge you need usually belongs to someone who has actually done the work. Kofa helps you find that person, check they’re the right fit, and bring them into a structured engagement.
Find the person through the network, or bring someone you already trust.
Good research starts with the right person.
The person who operated in the market, built the business, delivered the programme, enforced the policy or lived with the problem knows what is true right now — not what the last report said.
A person matched to the question — not a name from a list.
Local people, on the ground, built and partnered.
Kofa started with a problem we know closely: ground truth about Africa.
Markets, policies and everyday realities move quickly, while reports fall behind. The people closest to the work hold knowledge that never makes it into a report. Kofa was built to make that ground truth easier to reach, structure and keep.
In African markets, the knowledge needed for good decisions is often local, changing and difficult to capture. Policies change, organisations evolve, markets move, and much of what matters lives with people working on the ground, not in reports or databases.
So we built Kofa to make ground-truth knowledge easier to find, structure, capture and keep. We began in African markets because that is where we work and where the people who hold this knowledge are — the infrastructure is built with them, not tested on them.
The infrastructure isn’t limited to Africa. Wherever a decision depends on people, you can use the Kofa network where we can help — or bring your own people and use the same workflow.
Where the knowledge actually lives.
Africa is where we build the network first. The workspace works anywhere.
Our network is growing across Africa.
The map answers one practical question: can Kofa source here? Where the network is active, we can; we’re building and partnering across the rest of the continent.
Network active
Kofa can source and verify practitioners here today.
Network growing
Local coordinators are being established across the rest of the continent.
Bring your own
Outside coverage you bring the people, and everything else is unchanged.
Kofa helps build the network, in partnership with the people on the ground.
We work with practitioners, local coordinators and partner organisations already on the ground. They are partners in a growing network around Kofa. Local partners do the finding; every person is checked and approved, and no one signs off their own suggestion.
Matched to the question.
Describe the experience you need. Kofa matches from the question outward.
The match is on the experience your brief actually requires.
Experience
Have they actually done the work?
Context
Have they operated in the market or situation you’re researching?
Fit
Can their experience answer your specific question?
Verification
Checked through structured conversations and references.
Availability
Can they take part within your timeframe?
Already know who you want to talk to? Bring them.
Your practitioner doesn’t have to come from the Kofa network. Invite someone you already know — a former colleague, supplier, operator, advisor or local contact.
Same structured path, whoever they are.
You bring the person. Kofa runs the infrastructure.
Start here
Know who you need? Or need us to find them?
Either way, start with the question.