AI ethics in humanitarian work: from theory to practice
Five requirements to judge an AI tool, drawn from the SAFE AI framework, and a live demonstration. With the MEAL Afrique network.
Independent consultant · Humanitarian sector
AI in the service of humanitarian organisations, true to their principles
I help NGOs adopt AI while staying in control: setting their principles and rules, choosing or building the right tools, and training their teams. With eight years of humanitarian field work behind me, and an AI tool I designed and run.
- Madagascar
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Sudan
- Ukraine
- Central African Republic
- Burundi
01 · What I do
Three ways to work together
Leadership and organisations
AI advisory
Strategy, principles, policy, tool selection, governance and training: AI governance that is reliable and true to humanitarian principles.
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AI assistants and tools built for your teams, your data and your procedures, to the same requirements.
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An M&E system that serves your decisions, and teams trained to run it.
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In most organisations, AI is already in use, often with no written rules, sometimes on data about vulnerable people. My work is to bring order to that use, starting from the organisation's own principles and from the reference frameworks: the EU AI Act and the SAFE AI sector framework.
To apply them day to day, I boil them down to five requirements:
T
TransparencyYou can explain how a result was produced.
R
ReliabilityNo figure without a verifiable source.
U
UsefulnessAI steps in where it adds something, and nowhere else.
S
SupervisionA person approves, and remains accountable.
T
TightnessData stays under control, and you know where it goes.
The detail is in the TRUST framework.
A field practitioner who also builds
I have worked in the humanitarian sector since 2018: monitoring and evaluation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Ukraine, programme coordination in the Central African Republic, and today development and quality coordination in Burundi.
Alongside that, I designed Opti', an AI-assisted M&E platform used by more than 800 professionals in over ten countries. That is where I apply, every day, the rules I recommend to organisations.
8 yearsin the humanitarian sector
6 countriesof field work
7,5 M€programme portfolio coordinated in CAR
800+professionals on Opti'
The next session
Let's talk about your organisation
A first thirty-minute call, free and with no commitment, to see whether I can be of use.