THE ORIGIN OF THE SURVIVOR ALIGNMENT INDEX
30 Years of Lived & Executive Experience. Built for Real-World Dignity.
International Health & Philanthropy Have a Hidden Blind Spot.
For decades, standard institutional audits have measured financial balance sheets and legal compliance. Yet, they consistently ignore a major area of human and reputational exposure: how organisations treat and represent the individuals and communities they claim to serve.
The Survivor Alignment Index (SAI) is the distillation of 30 years of lived and executive experience, developed by Fidel Strub to serve as an objective, institutional benchmark for narrative and visual integrity.
THE PERSONAL ORIGIN
Reclaiming Identity & The Reality of Uncompensated Value
The SAI was not conceived in an academic lecture hall. Its foundation rests on the lived experience of our Founder, Fidel Strub, a survivor of Noma a severe, neglected disease that destroys facial tissue and personal identity.
Over decades, Fidel’s image, voice, and personal history were featured across global campaigns to raise public awareness and drive fundraising. The values generated by his representation was immense, yet the individuals who lived it received zero compensation, zero royalties, and zero governance over where those media assets ended up.
Decades later, photographs from those early years are still circulating online, leaving the subject with no mechanism to recall legacy imagery or enforce time-bound consent.
Later, serving as a director and president of international organisations, Fidel saw the exact same systemic pattern repeating behind closed doors:
Uncompensated Content Extraction: Relying on community members and survivors for campaign material without fair compensation, community royalties, or economic rights.
Paternalistic Storytelling: Erasing local leaders, doctors, and community heads who actually drive project execution to present simplified foreign “hero” narratives.
Unbacked Claims & Legacy Assets: Using decades-old media trapped in digital archives without active re-consent or recall rights for the subjects.
At the same time, through direct interactions with major institutional donors, one reality became clear: donors are increasingly asking for true transparency. They want verified proof of how communities and storytellers are treated, how local partners are compensated, and whether field realities match public promises.
Fidel Strub built the SAI to bridge this exact gap ensuring communities are treated with economic fairness and giving serious organisations a rigorous standard to prove their field-level integrity
THE SOLUTION
A Practical, Objective Benchmark for Dignity
The Survivor Alignment Index (SAI) translates ground-level ethical reality into an objective evaluation system. It measures whether an organization’s public footprint matches real-world respect for local sovereignty.
Rather than selling theoretical advice, the SAI evaluates your public footprint across 5 Core Dimensions:
Narrative Accuracy: Verifying that claims match real field updates and local leaders are properly credited as primary implementers.
Visual Dignity: Banning staged misery, close-ups of acute distress, and disempowering visual tropes.
Consent & Rights: Enforcing hard 12-month expiration lifespans on active media assets and giving communities 48-hour recall rights.
Operational Transparency: Ensuring financial reports are public and resource allocation to local partners is visible.
Institutional Trajectory: Testing multi-year consistency, board transparency, and long-term ethical commitment.
PROTECTING YOUR IP & CLIENT TRUST
How We Deliver the Evaluation
To protect our proprietary scoring matrix while delivering maximum value to our clients:
Zero Document Demands: We do not ask for internal records or private data. We audit strictly what is visible to your donors and the public.
Proprietary Qualitative Testing: Our evaluation team executes a comprehensive 100-point surface check using our confidential qualitative testing framework.
14 Business Days Delivery: You receive an executive Risk Report detailing exact vulnerabilities, alongside your official Document of Alignment & Seal of Integrity.
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