Fika
Safe arrivals for everyone, everywhere.
Rural isolation is a root cause of poverty. Connection is the foundation for opportunity.
Delivering multi-dimensional impact worldwide
Download Our Impact OverviewOur Work
At Fika, we envision a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Together with government, community, private sector, and impact-driven partners, we facilitate safe, reliable access through infrastructure solutions and have built more than 790 trail bridges, serving over 5.1 million community members throughout the world.
Why Bridges?Areas of Impact
Fika Digital
Rural communities experience outsized negative effects when a lack of basic infrastructure prevents them from reaching important destinations. Our Digital group conducts research, produces data, and develops applications to close data gaps and transform rural access. The technology we build scales our work as we aim to transform rural access solutions around the world.
Solutions for Connection
Fika partners with communities, governments, private sector, research and technology, and other stakeholders to help plan, prioritize, assess, construct, and manage transport access for rural communities around the world.
Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Design & Build
Rely on decades of expertise in partnering with domestic governments, raising capital, building the capacities of the private sector, establishing supply chains, and working with local communities to design, build, and manage rural access and mobility infrastructure
- Feasibility Studies and Site Needs Assessments
- Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Design
- Construction Management
- Sustainable Procurement
- Quality Assurance and Standards Development
- Asset Planning and Management
- Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Maintenance
Training and Capacity Building
Deepen the breadth and depth of contextualized rural access expertise to maximize impact for isolated communities globally
- Design & Build Training and Certification
- Inspection, Safety, and Maintenance Trainings
- Rural Access Training-of-Trainers
- Curriculum Design and Deployment
Program Design and Advisory Services
Provide fit-for-purpose advisory services to government, private sector, academic, and development partners to elevate rural access in global development agendas
- Rural Access Planning
- Technical Advisory Services
- Policy Advisory and Implementation
- Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Design
- Resource Mobilization
- Advocacy and Communications
Innovation and Research
Develop and deploy innovative technologies to facilitate a data-driven, human-centered, and community-based approach to rural access planning, infrastructure development, investment optimization, and impact assessment
- Environmental and Social Impact Analyses
- Impact Evaluation and Knowledge Sharing
- Innovative Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Designs and Typologies
- Rural Access Digital and AI Tool Deployment
- Data and Analytics
- Open Source Knowledge Center