Organizations in Central America face growing pressure to demonstrate impact with fewer resources, while AI is increasingly presented as a solution.

This interactive workshop proposes flipping the usual logic and starting with the people the programs serve. Through practical exercises and regional cases, participants will explore how to design and evaluate AI and impact tools based on community outcomes, language, context, connectivity, dignity, and data rights. Together, they will identify where AI can genuinely accelerate social change and where it can generate costs, risks, or extraction. Each participant will leave with a reusable beneficiary-centered framework and a practical checklist to evaluate AI tools before adopting them.