Staff at Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC), a Somali women-led nonprofit, were using AI in their daily work before the organization had any rule about how it should be used, who approves it or what information must never be entered into a public tool. With support from the NetHope Connected AI grant, SSWC developed its first organizational AI policy and trained its staff and board members to apply it. The policy sets risk levels, approval pathways and safeguarding rules, written in clear terms for everyone who might use AI.
The case study covers why the policy was needed, how it was designed for the Somali context, how it is being rolled out and what comes next.
