Tiko

Tiko (formerly Triggerise) is a tech-powered non-profit operational in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Tiko is a non-profit leveraging technology to transform sexual and reproductive health for underserved girls in urban and peri-urban Africa facing the 'triple threat' of unintended pregnancy, HIV and sexual and gender-based violence.

Tiko uses a tech-powered model to connect otherwise fragmented stakeholders on the ground, such as private and public medical service providers, community-based organizations (CBOs) and pharmacies, so that adolescent girls have access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health services and products, at no cost to them.

Tiko’s model removes social and financial barriers to care, ultimately empowering girls as agents in their sexual and reproductive health journey.

Tiko has operations across Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Zambia. 

Founded in 2014, Tiko set out to revolutionise the social impact sector by integrating technology into its core operating model, thereby tackling inefficiencies in the provision of healthcare. Traditional aid often created an unsustainable reliance on parallel distribution, fragmented service delivery systems and upstream subsidy schemes

From the start, Tiko aimed to transform this framework by building healthcare solutions from within the communities they serve, working with local actors to unify existing healthcare players into a cohesive ecosystem, leveraging their strengths and building resilience. Tiko’s model would use technology to ensure that support reached target groups, and that the impact of that support would be verified. With the ability to identify every unique user, it would be able to reach them with targeted subsidies and nudges.

Today, Tiko has delivered sexual and reproductive health impact for more than 2.5 million young people and is recognised as an up and coming African NGO in sub-Saharan Africa’s healthcare sector, driven by the core values it was founded upon.