# Request for Proposal WAZZII Platform Feature Development and Service Design at Girl Effect > Kenya · Unspecified · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Agirleffect%3A8923125002 (read 2026-11-10). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Girl Effect](https://alderhq.app/companies/girl-effect) - Location text: Kenya; Kenya - Where it can be done from (inferred): Kenya (evidence: "Location: Kenya; Kenya") - Posted: 2026-10-29 (12 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-08 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/girleffect/jobs/8923125002 - Skills listed (inferred): Python, AWS, LLMs ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Girl Effect" (checked 2026-11-09, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers)) ## Description (the employer's text) ### Procurement Summary ### Item Details RFP Title WAZZII Platform Feature Development and Service Design Procurement Method Open competitive tender Primary Market Kenya Contract Period Initial implementation period of approximately 12 months Reporting To Product and Delivery Lead Clarification Deadline 4 November 2026 Proposal Deadline 13 November 2026 Submission Email suppliers@girleffect.org ### Who We Are Girl Effect is an international non-profit that builds media and technology girls choose, use and trust. Across Africa and South Asia, our youth brands — including Wazzii and Tuki in Kenya, Big Sis in South Africa, Chhaa Jaa and Bol Behen in India, and Yegna in Ethiopia — reach millions of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with content and digital tools that support the decisions shaping their lives, from sexual and reproductive health (SRH) to wellbeing, education and work. Our approach is girl-centred by design: girls co-create our products, our evidence teams measure what actually changes for them, and our safeguarding architecture treats their safety as a design constraint, never an afterthought. Girl Effect has spent a decade building conversational products for young people, and several years deliberately and publicly charting what responsible technology for girls looks like. ### What is WAZZII Today. WAZZII is Girl Effect’s WhatsApp-based chatbot for AGYW in Kenya, offering confidential SRH information, signposting and human help desk support in English and Sheng. It draws on a decade-deep corpus of more than 50 million questions young people have asked our chatbots — one of the richest datasets in existence on what girls actually want to know. Human help desk operators, working on the RapidPro help desk, remain central to the experience. The next evolution of its design. Over the coming two years, WAZZII will evolve from a conversational companion into a trusted service-navigation platform: girls will move from a conversation to finding a real, vetted, youth-friendly provider nearby; prepare for the visit with confidence; access services using codes issued in the chat; and be supported to continue afterwards — with verified loops confirming a girl was actually served. Tens of thousands of girls are expected to use these capabilities directly, and the learning will shape Girl Effect’s chatbot portfolio globally. This tender selects the partner for the service design and platform engineering behind that evolution. ### The Girl Effect Tech Stack Girl Effect has built an ecosystem of technologies which underpin its user-facing solutions. By using the existing tech stack, we ensure our in-country teams can focus their time and budget on delivering impact. The stack consists of: - RapidPro: Low-code chatbot building platform through which we connect to instant messaging platforms, build out user engagement pathways including informational content, quizzes and surveys, and connect to other tools via API. Hosted on partner org’s multi-tenant AWS infrastructure Wagtail: Python-based CMS, used to build our user-facing websites. Connects to RapidPro via API to provide structured content such as service directories. Self-hosted on AWSIntelligence Module: GE’s self-built tool to manage connectivity with LLMs. Connects via API to RapidPro to build user-facing GenAI workflows.Self-hosted on AzureAPIs: Manage connections between the different tools in the system. Self-hosted on AWS We are open to suggestions of changes that could be made to the stack which would provide tangible benefits to our programmatic output, whether through improved functionality or cost efficiencies. ### Objective To appoint an experienced technology and service-design partner to design, build, test, deploy and support the next phase of WAZZII as a safe, accessible and measurable service-navigation platform for adolescent girls and young women in Kenya. The engagement will follow a service-design-led approach, with user needs, safeguarding requirements and tested service journeys informing the final technical build. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). 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