Making
Good
Change
Happen
Wasafiri is a development consultancy that helps make good change happen.
From our HQ in Kenya, we operate across Africa and advise globally.
We offer a systems change approach to complex issues, especially at the intersection of food, livelihoods, climate, nature, peace and inclusion.
We are an award-winning B-Corp certified as a “for-purpose” business.
Our services
Our services help our partners turn systems change ambition into practical action by shaping strategy, enabling learning, equipping leaders, strengthening collaboration, and advancing inclusion.
Action Planning
We co-design strategies and initiatives that align actors and turn ambition into coordinated action.
Learning
We enable systems-focused learning that helps partners see what is changing, decide what matters, and adapt their action over time.
Leadership
We equip leaders to read the system, mobilise others, and act with confidence in complex and uncertain environments.
Collaboration
We design and support collaborative networks that enable diverse actors to align, coordinate, and act together.
Inclusion
We help partners shift power and centre lived experience so those most affected can meaningfully shape decisions and action.
"Travellers, there is no path. We make the path as we walk together."
This poetic line inspired our name, Wasafiri – the Swahili word for travellers. It evokes the shared journey when embarking on transformative change.
Might you be a fellow traveller? Here are some potential next steps.
Some of our clients
Catalysts for collective action
Wasafiri, means “travellers” in Swahili, and was inspired by the phrase, “Traveller, there is no path: we make the path as we walk together.” This simple statement evokes the spirit of how we work; as trusted adviser, collaborator and systems-change entrepreneur, relentlessly driven toward transformative action. Our expertise lies in generating new insight, ideas and partnerships to drive collective action on complex problems.
Systemcraft Institute
Systemcraft is Wasafiri’s approach to creating transformational change. It’s been forged from our experience on the front lines of some of the world’s toughest problems and is grounded in a robust body of research and theory.
Systemcraft offers a practical framework for creating system-level change in the face of big, messy and seemingly intractable problems.
As well as using Systemcraft in our consultancy work, we also share it with leaders and practitioners working to create a more equitable, sustainable and peaceful world.
Visit the Systemcraft Institute to learn more, take a course or join our community.
Our latest blogs and events
Turning shared ambition into coordinated action
How Wasafiri helped align partners to move Grow Africa from vision to implementation and collective momentum.
Making school feeding work through MSEs and smallholder farmers
In the grand scheme of food systems, micro and small micro enterprises (MSEs) are often overlooked as a contributor to sustainable change and seen more as a benefactor of actions of other stakeholders in the food supply chain.
Visioning Zambia’s food systems, a homecoming through Collective Action
Supporting non-state actors in Zambia to co-create a shared vision for their food systems has been both a homecoming and a deep learning journey for me.
