Tiba - Pan-African, African-led, living-evidence ecosystem (framework declaration, v0.1.0). Not affiliated with the Cochrane Collaboration.
# Tiba
> Pan-African, African-led, living-evidence ecosystem.
> Swahili: *healing / medicine.*
**v0.1.0 — framework declaration.**
**Index page:**
mahmood726-cyber.github.io
**Manifesto:** `MANIFESTO.md`
## What is Tiba?
Tiba is a federation of African-led evidence-synthesis projects, organised under one architectural vocabulary so they compose into a single moonshot: a working living-evidence pipeline that an African research workforce can run, anchored at Makerere.
v0.1.0 is the **framework declaration** — the diagnostic + constructive papers that say what Tiba is, the `tiba.yaml` federation manifest that lets affiliated repos opt in, and the CI-generated index page that renders the federation. The working pipeline (v0.2+) builds on this foundation.
## Architecture (8 layers, two-tier)
**Operational today (v0.1.0):**
| Layer | Owning repo |
|---|---|
| Discovery | `pactr-hiddenness-atlas` |
| Quality gates | `repro-floor-atlas`, `pi-atlas`, `responder-floor-atlas`, `trial-truthfulness-atlas`, `cochrane-modern-re` |
| Equity scoreboard | `arac` |
| Publishing rail | E156 workbook + Synthēsis-Africa imprint |
| Training rail | `synthesis-courses` |
**Roadmap (v0.2+):** Workforce activation · Living updates · Verification UI primitive.
See `MANIFESTO.md` and `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-05-tiba-design.md` for the full architecture.
## Affiliating a repo
Drop a `tiba.yaml` at your repo root. See `MANIFESTO.md` §How-to-affiliate for the 3-step process. Schema is enforced by CI (Task 14 of the v0.1.0 plan); your repo will only render on the index page if its declared `pages_url` returns HTTP 200.
## Local development
```bash
python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest -q
python -m tiba.generator.build_index --output site/index.html
```
## Trademark
**Tiba is not affiliated with the Cochrane Collaboration.** "Cochrane" and related marks are registered trademarks of The Cochrane Collaboration. Tiba uses freely-available systemati …