Health, Dignity6 mins
If you could change one thing...
What's one product or service made for women that has never quite worked for you?
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Women’s voices. Better design. Stronger futures.
Designing a future where women shape the services and products meant for them.
Buni By She is a women-centred design research innovation platform that invites women to participate in design challenges, share lived experiences, and influence wellbeing solutions across health, finance, technology, mobility, care, and everyday life.
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Why Buni By She Exists
Women are experts in their own lives
“Too many solutions for women are designed without women in the room. The result is products that may be medically sound or technically clever, but uncomfortable, inaccessible, unaffordable, culturally misaligned, or disconnected from women’s realities.”
Buni By She creates a safe bridge between women and innovators, ensuring that women’s experiences, ideas, constraints, and aspirations shape the solutions built for their wellbeing.
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Choice
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Agency
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Access
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Dignity
“Nothing for women, without women.”
Contributors
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Women contributing ideas across active challenges
Wellbeing pillars
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Health, agency, access, dignity
Participation channels
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Web, SMS and voice
Closed loop
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One loop between women and organizations developing products and services for them
How It Works
Your experiences matter. Help shape what comes next.
Join a community of women sharing real experiences to help create products and services that better understand our lives.
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Find your place
Create your profile, choose your privacy settings, and join women who bring different stories, ideas, and experiences, including yours.
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Share your everyday experiences
What works for you? What could be better? Take part in polls, share a story, or contribute ideas on topics that matter to you.
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Help create better solutions
Your contributions help innovators understand what women actually need. Insights are shared without identifying you.
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Get something back
Earn points and badges for your contributions, with opportunities to access goodies.
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Health, Dignity
6 mins
If you could change one thing...
What's one product or service made for women that has never quite worked for you?
PCOS Wellbeing
7 mins
Seeking answers around PCOS/PMOS?
Have you been diagnosed with PCOS/PMOS or wondered whether it could explain symptoms you are experiencing?
Innovations & Collaborations
From insight to action
- Virtual Reality
- Financial Literacy
- Women's Confidence
Tiyende Virtual Reality in Zambia
Tiyende is a virtual reality innovation project in Zambia designed to support women's confidence, financial literacy, and access to financial services. Through immersive experiences, women can explore savings products, understand loan options, and virtually navigate services before engaging with them in real life.
Read the field notesBlog & Field Notes
Stories from design, research and innovation
Field Notes
What Tiyende VR taught us about confidence and financial decisions
A reflection from Zambia on how immersive tools can make services feel less intimidating.
Read: What Tiyende VR taught us about confidence and financial decisions
Participatory Design
Why women must shape the future of FemTech
Products miss the mark when women are treated only as users rather than co-designers.
Read: Why women must shape the future of FemTech
Collaboration
Designing across health, care, transport and money
Women's wellbeing is not siloed. The systems around women shape whether solutions work.
Read: Designing across health, care, transport and moneyPartner With Us
Build with Women from the start.
Buni By She supports innovators, NGOs, researchers, and funders to test concepts, gather anonymized insights, and understand whether products are desirable, feasible, viable, and dignified for women.Bring women's voices into your process.
- 01Desirable, women want it
- 02Feasible, it works in context
- 03Viable, it can be sustained
- 04Dignified, it respects them
Meet the Founder
Paula Kiura | Founder, Buni by She
I am a design researcher who has spent over ten years listening to women across Africa. Their experiences have shown me how easily even well-intended products and services can fall short when women are missing from the design process. I founded Buni by Her to change that. For women, it is a place to say what works for them, what doesn't and what they wish existed. For Organisations, it is a chance to listen and create with women they hope to serve.