Ashuza11/shakisha-gd-Resource-Discovery-challenge-2026

Shakisha (Kinyarwanda: "to search / to discover") — Find the gender data you need, understand it instantly, and turn it into advocacy. # Shakisha — AI-Powered Gender Data Discovery Platform > **Shakisha** (Kinyarwanda: _"to search / to discover"_) — Find the gender data you need, understand it instantly, and turn it into advocacy. **GDRD Gender Data Resource Discovery Hackathon 2026** `team-shakisha-gdrd-2026` · March 19–20, 2026 · Kigali, Rwanda --- ## Live Demo | Interface | URL | Status | | ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------ | | **Frontend** (Next.js) | `shakisha.vercel.app` | ⏳ Deploying | | **Backend API** (FastAPI) | `shakisha-api.onrender.com` | ⏳ Deploying | | **API Health check** | `shakisha-api.onrender.com` | ⏳ Deploying | > Both services deploy automatically from the `main` branch on every push. --- ## Team | Name | Role | | --------------------- | ----------------------- | | Muhigiri Ashuza Albin | Developer & AI Engineer | | Ingabire Vanessa | Researcher & UX | --- ## Project Objective Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and policy actors in Rwanda lose critical advocacy time searching for gender data across fragmented, PDF-heavy sources. **Shakisha** solves this by combining intelligent discovery with AI-generated policy output — so a CSO officer can go from a question to a ready-to-use advocacy brief in minutes, not hours. **One platform. Five steps:** - **Search** — Type a plain-language question in any form (English or French) - **Discover** — Get ranked results over 1,362 Rwanda gender studies across 6 domains - **Validate** — Check data quality, source availability, and metadata completeness - **Act** — Generate AI-powered advocacy briefs from any dataset, ready for policymakers - **Grow** — Live data pipeline crawls NISR and pulls from OpenAlex + Tavily to keep the catalog current --- ## Architecture ``` ┌───────────────────── …