Work with us
Tigray Monitor is run by volunteers and partners. Claims stay attributed to their sources, every record shows how it was verified, and corrections are made in the open. There is work here for researchers, reporters, mappers, analysts, translators, engineers and institutions.
Roles
Each role maps to a real part of the platform. Choose the one closest to what you do; we will shape the rest together.
Conflict, humanitarian, legal, economic or historical researchers, including supervised students.
Build the record on a question: the Pretoria implementation timeline, displacement and returns, aid access, attacks on health care. Every finding is entered with its source and becomes an incident, event or indicator others can check.
Journalists, editors and people with reporting experience in Tigray or Ethiopia, in any language.
Enter reports through the console, review incoming claims against their sources, write the daily situation briefing and decide what is published. Every decision carries your name and a note.
People in Tigray and the diaspora with trusted networks who can speak with witnesses safely.
Collect first-hand accounts, photographs and video, dated and placed, through the secure report form or the outreach channel. Identities are protected; contact details are encrypted and access is logged.
GIS analysts, cartographers and people who know the towns, kebeles and roads of Tigray.
Place incidents on the map, correct locations and precision, maintain the zone and woreda boundaries on the pre-2018 administrative map, and map infrastructure such as airports, hospitals and telecoms.
Remote-sensing analysts and open-source investigators.
Process satellite and aerial imagery to confirm strike damage, fires, displacement sites, checkpoints and troop movements; geolocate photos and videos; attach the analysis as evidence with its method so it can be reproduced.
Fluent in Tigrinya, Amharic, Arabic or Afar and English.
Translate source documents, statements, eyewitness accounts and site text. The original stays attached to every translation, so nothing is lost in the record.
Machine-learning and natural-language-processing practitioners.
Improve claim extraction from news and statements in Tigrinya, Amharic and English, source-lineage classification, duplicate detection, place-name matching and casualty-figure reconciliation. Models propose; reviewers decide; everything stays attributed.
TypeScript, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and Next.js developers; infrastructure and security engineers.
An open monorepo with a documented pipeline, migrations and tests. Contributions arrive as pull requests reviewed before deployment; security findings go to the security mailbox.
Lawyers, transitional-justice and human-rights practitioners.
Structure records to documentation standards, track the accountability provisions of the Pretoria agreement, and advise on source protection and data handling.
Partners
Every partnership is written down: what each side gives, what it gets, and the one condition we never trade, that no party to the conflict funds or directs the platform.
Tigrayan, Ethiopian and international outlets, radio and community media.
You bring
Reports shared for the record with attribution kept; tips on developing events; corrections when our record differs from yours.
You get
An incident identifier and verification status for each report you share, citable in your own work; early notice of verified developments; datasets and API for your reporting; joint investigations on request.
Aid agencies, local associations, health and education bodies, diaspora organisations.
You bring
Field observations on access, services and displacement; infrastructure status; standardised data where you can share it.
You get
A neutral, sourced situation record to cite with donors and coordination bodies; the infrastructure tracker and situation briefing; CSV and GeoJSON exports; a channel that protects your staff and sources.
Departments and centres working on conflict, peace, humanitarian response, law, public health or data science.
You bring
Supervised student and faculty research; methodological review; imagery and language expertise.
You get
Access to the full evidence base with lineage; versioned dataset releases with citations; co-authored methodology; applied projects in satellite analysis and language technology.
Satellite-imagery providers, network-measurement groups, translation and AI teams, hosting and security firms.
You bring
Imagery, measurements, models, credits or infrastructure; engineering time.
You get
Documented, attributed use of your data in a public record; a real-world testbed with clear evaluation; acknowledgement on the site and in releases.
Human-rights organisations, transitional-justice bodies, legal clinics.
You bring
Documentation standards; guidance on evidence handling and source protection.
You get
Records structured to those standards, with immutable audit trails and evidence hashes; controlled access to unpublished material under agreement.
Foundations, development agencies, individual donors, diaspora funds.
You bring
Core funding for hosting, security, scanning and backups; stipends for reviewers and translators; satellite imagery; field trips for data collection and verification; digitisation of records and archives; and media work such as documentary, photo and video production, transcription and translation.
You get
Independence guaranteed in writing, public accounting of what funds paid for, and the open datasets and releases as the shared result.
Government bodies and international organisations may submit statements and data for the record; they are published as attributed statements, never as findings. Schools, libraries and community groups may use the site and datasets freely under the stated licence.
Process
Use the form below or write to the relevant mailbox. Say which role or partnership fits, where you are based, your languages and your time.
An editor replies within a few days. We agree scope, access level and, for partners, a one-page memorandum that states what each side gives and gets.
Reviewers and editors get a named console account. Every action you take is attributed and audited; nothing is done anonymously on the record.
Your contributions appear as sourced incidents, events, translations, analyses or code. Corrections are public. Credit is given on the site and in dataset releases.
Commitments
No party to the conflict funds or directs the platform. Statements by parties are recorded as their claims.
People who report to us are never named without consent. Contact details are encrypted; access is logged and reviewed.
Reviewers act under their own account. Each decision carries a name, a date and a note, on an append-only audit chain.
Quote the incident identifier and a source. Corrections are reviewed, applied and logged where readers can see them.
Read the methodology and the source policy.
FAQ
No. Most reviewing, translation, mapping, imagery and engineering work is remote. Data collection and outreach roles need trusted networks in the region or the diaspora.
Most roles are volunteer. Where funding allows, reviewers and translators receive stipends, and imagery costs are covered. Partnerships are agreed case by case.
Anything from a few hours a month for translation or mapping to regular shifts for reviewing during escalations. Say what you can offer and we plan around it.
You choose how you are named, or whether you are named at all, outside the audit record. Sensitive roles get a security briefing, and the security mailbox handles concerns directly.
They may submit statements and data for the record. Statements are published as attributed statements, never as findings, and they cannot fund or direct the platform.
No. Use the secure report form, so that source protection applies from your first message.
Apply
Say which role or partnership fits, where you are based, your languages and how much time you have. We reply from the help or partners mailbox.