AI-Powered Climate Risk Communication

We deliver an AI-powered, multilingual, multi-hazard early warning service that provides clear, localised alerts to underserved, high-risk communities at scale.

The problem we solve

Climate forecasts are available, but they are not understood, trusted, or actionable.

Forecasts are often too technical, not available in local languages, or delivered through inaccessible channels. As a result, communities cannot act in time.

Resurgence uses DARAJA + AI to make climate early warnings accessible at scale, especially in low-resource languages and low-bandwidth settings. We translate official meteorological forecasts into clear, localised audio and text alerts delivered through trusted community channels in real time.

Aligned with UN Early Warnings for All (Pillars 3 and 4), our human-reviewed system extends – not replaces – existing national systems, ensuring life-saving climate information reaches everyone, everywhere.

Our impact

DARAJA + AI is being deployed in a conflict-affected context, the country of Sudan, to deliver multilingual early warnings in Sudanese Arabic and Tigre – reaching high-risk populations through radio, voice, and mobile channels.

What we deliver

DARAJA + AI: Early Warning for All

A first AI-powered, multilingual, multi-hazard, community-scale early warning system, built on 10 years of early warning delivery and community trust.

Multilingual, Real-Time Conversion

We transform official meteorological forecasts into clear, actionable text and audio alerts in multiple local languages simultaneously and in real time, enabling rapid comprehension across diverse populations.

Low-Bandwidth, Multi-Channel Reach

Our system is designed for fragile and low-connectivity environments, delivering warnings via SMS, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), radio, and platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram – ensuring accessibility even on basic phones without internet access.

Human-in-the-Loop Governance

Every alert is validated through trained local forecasters, and community-informed safeguards before distribution, ensuring accuracy, cultural relevance, ethical oversight, and sustained trust.

Systems Integration, Capacity Building & Open Source

We embed directly within national meteorological agencies and strengthen long-term capacity through forecaster training, while using open-source, non-proprietary architectures to ensure sustainability, interoperability, and full partner ownership.

Our Partnerships under DARAJA + AI

How it works

Phase 1

Forecast Ingestion

We ingest and process official meteorological forecasts in real time from our national weather service partners.

Phase 2

AI Translation & Localisation

Our multilingual climate context models convert forecast data into clear, culturally adapted text in local languages.

Phase 3

Voice & Distribution

We generate accessible audio warnings and distribute them via WhatsApp, radio, SMS, IVR voice calls, and trusted community networks.

Phase 4

Continuous Learning & Scaling

Our human-in-the-loop review validates every warning before it reaches communities. Their feedback continuously improves our accuracy, reach, and trust. Ensuring we can scale across high-risk geographies, including fragile contexts such as Sudan.

DARAJA is not known so much as Weather Mtaani in my community, but DARAJA came through as a saviour to people’s lives and how they were living. And it has prevented them from losing their property and losing their lives.

James Kirika

Laini Saba resident

“We monitor rainfall and drainage levels. When thresholds are reached, we send alerts to DARAJA Climate Champions, who share them with the community. This collaboration ensures forecasts are not just data, but life‑saving information.”

Dr. Isaac Mugume

Assistant Commissioner, Forecasting Services, Department of Meteorological Services, Uganda

“Before DARAJA, floods used to take lives. Children could not go to school. And for us women we fell sick. Every time we stepped into the flood water, we contracted Bilharzia, plus urinary tract infections. We also suffered from Cholera.”

Allen Kyomuhendo

Community Resident, Katogo Zone, Kawempe Division, Bwaise, Kampala, Uganda

“When you want to start a project like DARAJA you need to involve all those important stakeholders, especially from the city authorities and the community. Because we need to have community involvement from the beginning.”

Prudensiana Luckago

Community Development Officer, Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI) Tanzania

“We worked with residents to map safe routes and rescue points. This participatory approach ensures the plan reflects local knowledge and lived experience.”

Catherine Nimusiima

ACTogether Uganda, DARAJA Project Manager

“Personally, I was not seeing weather information as an important part of my day-to-day life before DARAJA. At school we had low attendance of students about more than approximately 10% per each class during the rainy season because most of the students live in this flood plain or lower Msimbazi basin but we did not foresee that, by just following and using detailed or advanced weather information, we could boost and maintain students’ attendance at school and contribute to a better academic performance. We learnt this through the DARAJA project.”

Esther Lugulu

School teacher at Gilman Rutihinda Primary School located at Kigogo Mbuyuni, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

“I look forward to working with Resurgence and DARAJA, and all stakeholders to provide the best available science necessary for addressing climate change challenges particularly in developing countries.”

Dr. Ladislaus Chang’a

Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Acting Director, Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA)

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“DARAJA is an iconic example of radical, disruptive collaboration in climate services for the urban poor.”

Dr. Aditya V. Bahadur

Director, Red Cross Climate Centre

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“That’s what DARAJA means to me — it’s about connection, because that’s what bridges do. As an implementer and partner in DARAJA, in Nairobi, we want to scale it up and ensure it continues to connect diverse communities across the region. When a woman in a slum can challenge a planning professional, we know we’ve made progress.”

Regina Opondo

Senior Community Principal, Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI)

“Governance and trust are as essential as protocols — without trust, the most vulnerable will not act on warnings.”

Sheela Patel

Climate Champions Global Ambassador; Founder, Slum Dwellers International (SDI)

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“DARAJA is now part of Kampala’s disaster planning. It shows how city authorities and communities can work hand in hand.”

Henry Bwire

The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Kawempe division

“We have unpredictable weather. We have fishermen going out at night and then they have to rush back. But now they’re getting the weather forecasts, it tells them a little ahead of time what weather to expect. So now they will be more prepared.”

Nadine Earle

BReTCAT (DARAJA Replicator Model) community stakeholder, Jamaica

“The nature of DARAJA requires some sort of partnership, so strengthening the partnership with the private sector is one of our approaches to solving the problem. The other approach is bringing the community on board to understand and give value to the climate information.”

Tarekegn Abera

Executive Officer, Ethiopian Meteorology Institute (EMI)

“When we hear the warning, I tell my mother to pack our bag. We keep water, food, and documents ready.”

Primary school student participant, DARAJA Kampala service

Bwaise, Kampala, Uganda

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