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Digital Transformation
Strategy, operating models and enterprise architecture that make digital change durable inside institutions.
- Digital transformation strategy
- Digital government
- Digital operating models
- Enterprise architecture
Digital transformation · Technology · Advisory
Solving complex challenges. Creating solutions. Driving impact.
ARDI is a digital transformation and technology consultancy in Addis Ababa, helping governments, development organisations and businesses design, implement and scale solutions that strengthen institutions, improve services and enable better decisions.
- Practice areas
- 4
- Institutions supported
- 4+
- Technology agnostic
- 100%
What we do
Four practice areas, one continuous engagement model
We are structured around the sequence institutions actually follow — from framing the problem to sustaining the solution.
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Data & Technology
Platforms, interoperability and data governance that turn fragmented systems into shared, trusted infrastructure.
- Digital platforms
- Interoperability
- Data architecture
- Data governance
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Advisory & Research
Evidence, analysis and costed roadmaps that give decision-makers a defensible basis for investment.
- Landscape assessments
- Feasibility studies
- Strategy and policy
- Business process analysis
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Implementation & Capacity Building
Hands-on technical assistance, delivery management and capability transfer that outlast the engagement.
- Technical assistance
- Program management
- Product implementation
- Change management
Where we work
Sectors where technology and institutions meet
Our clients include governments, development organisations, NGOs, international development partners and private-sector organisations.
- Government
- Ministries, agencies and regulators modernising service delivery, registries and the shared infrastructure that underpins them.
- Health
- Health authorities and programs strengthening information systems, data quality and evidence for planning and response.
- Development
- Development partners, NGOs and financing institutions designing, appraising and supervising digital investments.
- Private Sector
- Enterprises and platform operators building the data, integration and technology foundations for growth.
About ARDI
An advisory firm built for institutional reality
ARDI works at the intersection of technology, institutions and development. We combine engineering depth with public-sector fluency, so the systems we design can actually be procured, operated and sustained by the organisations that own them.
Our mission
To help institutions in Ethiopia and the region use technology and evidence to deliver better services and make better decisions.
Our vision
Digital public infrastructure and institutional capability that are locally owned, interoperable by default and durable beyond any single programme.
Why ARDI
Advisory that stays accountable through delivery
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Deep sector understanding
We work in the operating reality of public institutions and development programs — mandates, procurement, budget cycles and accountability — not an abstract version of them.
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Technology agnostic
We hold no product allegiances. Recommendations follow from the problem, the total cost of ownership and the capacity available to sustain the solution.
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Local context, global perspective
Ethiopian and regional grounding combined with international standards and practice in digital public infrastructure, architecture and data governance.
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From strategy to execution
The same team that frames the strategy stays through implementation, so decisions survive contact with delivery.
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Impact oriented
We measure our work by the services improved, the decisions strengthened and the capability left behind — not by deliverables shipped.
Our work
Selected engagements across health, government and development
A few representative assignments that show how we move from landscape analysis to national systems.
DIGITAL LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
Digital Landscape Analysis for Ethiopia's Trachomatous Trichiasis (TT) Programme
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ARDI IT Solutions & Consultancy conducted a comprehensive digital landscape analysis of Ethiopia's Trachomatous Trichiasis (TT) ecosystem to support the Ministry of Health and its partners in accelerating disease elimination through digital transformation. The assignment involved mapping the existing digital ecosystem, assessing interoperability and data flows across national and partner-managed platforms, identifying systemic challenges and opportunities, and developing a strategic roadmap for an integrated digital architecture aligned with Ethiopia's National Digital Health Blueprint. ARDI also proposed an API-led interoperability strategy, integration with national platforms such as eCHIS and DHIS2, adoption of biometric-based unique patient identification, and a phased implementation roadmap incorporating emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to strengthen patient management, resource optimisation and evidence-based decision-making.
Digital Transformation
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND INTEROPERABILITY
Master Facility Registry (MFR) & e-Licensure Integration
02 / 03
ARDI IT Solutions & Consultancy supports the Ministry of Health and JSI in modernising Ethiopia's health facility regulatory infrastructure, contributing strategic and technical expertise across digital health architecture, interoperability, system design and development, data management and implementation. The project involves modernising the Master Facility Registry (MFR) using a scalable microservices architecture, developing and integrating the e-Licensure platform, establishing real-time synchronisation between licensing and registry data, developing an offline-first service data collection application and regulatory dashboards, and integrating national services including Fayda, DHIS2 and digital payments. ARDI also supports human-centred design, technical validation, data quality and migration, testing, training and institutional handover to enable a sustainable national digital regulatory platform.
Data & Technology
COSTED NATIONAL DIGITALISATION ROADMAP
Costed National Digitalisation Roadmap for CBHI and SHI
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ARDI IT Solutions & Consultancy supports UNICEF Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Health Insurance Service (EHIS) in developing a costed national digitalisation roadmap for Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) and Social Health Insurance (SHI). ARDI contributes to the assessment of the existing digital health-insurance ecosystem, including systems, data, interoperability, digital architecture, institutional readiness and implementation requirements. The engagement also involves stakeholder consultations, technical analysis, assessment of architecture options, and development of practical recommendations to guide future digital investments. ARDI's contribution will help inform a phased, affordable and sustainable national digitalisation roadmap, including investment priorities, implementation sequencing, and the transition toward a more integrated digital health-insurance ecosystem.
Advisory & Research
Trusted partners
Working together for impact
We collaborate with governments, development partners, and organizations that share our commitment to building a better future through innovation.
Careers
Join a team that stays through delivery
We hire consultants and engineers who are comfortable moving between strategy documents and production systems.
Digital Transformation Consultant
Strategy, operating-model and enterprise-architecture work with public institutions and development programmes.
Data & Systems Architect
Interoperability, data governance and platform design across fragmented institutional system landscapes.
Research & Policy Analyst
Assessments, feasibility studies and costed roadmaps grounded in field engagement, not desk review alone.
Implementation Lead
Programme management, product delivery and capability transfer alongside client teams.
Questions
What people ask about working with ARDI
Short answers on our digital health, digital government and advisory work in Ethiopia and across Africa.
- What does ARDI do?
- ARDI is a digital transformation and technology consultancy based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We advise governments, health systems, development partners and businesses on digital strategy, health information systems, data and interoperability, digital public infrastructure, and the implementation and capacity building needed to sustain them.
- What digital health services does ARDI provide?
- Our digital health work covers digital landscape analysis, health information system design and integration, interoperability with national platforms such as DHIS2 and eCHIS, unique patient identification, data quality and governance, costed digitalisation roadmaps, and technical assistance for health system strengthening.
- Which countries and regions does ARDI work in?
- We are grounded in Ethiopia and work across the wider African region, combining local institutional understanding with international standards in digital public infrastructure, enterprise architecture and data governance.
- Who does ARDI work with?
- We work with ministries, regulators and public agencies, health authorities and programmes, development partners, NGOs and financing institutions, and private-sector organisations building data and technology foundations.
- How does ARDI approach research and digital surveys?
- We combine field engagement with structured analysis: landscape assessments, feasibility studies, digital surveys and business process analysis that produce costed roadmaps and investment cases decision-makers can defend.
Contact
Let's work together
Tell us about the problem you are working on. We will respond with an initial view and, if useful, suggest a short conversation.
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