Reporting
Ask for the report and it is drafted from the live files in seconds, every figure traced to a document and to the person who checked it.
For programme managers, network directors and monitoring leads who report to funders, boards and government.
1 Ask for it
Reporting is a question, not a project.
Ask "Draft the Q2 funder report" and Mothusi compiles it from 60 live files in 4.2 seconds: 18 pages, every figure linked to its source, 214 documents and every reviewer's decision attached.
2 What changed
Prove what changed, and see what did not.
At month twelve the review reads 31 improved, 14 unchanged, 9 stalled and 6 weakened, distress recorded as plainly as progress, which is what makes the 18 that moved up a stage worth trusting.
3 Stage versus outcome
Programme stage is not the outcome.
Puleng Transport attended every session and graduated at 63, still 63, while Mokoena Construction, still in review, moved from 54 Forming to 66 Operating, so the report follows the business, not the programme.
4 Behind every figure
Every figure opens to its document and its reviewer.
Open the 18 that moved up a stage and each one resolves to a business, a cleared requirement, the document behind it and the reviewer who signed it off, dated, so nothing rests on your word.
5 Nothing hidden
What was set aside is printed beside what was counted.
Each report says how many reported, 171 of 645 in the Financials shown, names the months and entries set aside as too thin or as tests, and shows change only against a comparable prior.
6 The whole network
What holds each member back is named, and counted.
The directory report counts members by stage, shows each requirement as done, signed off or open, and names the one document that would move each business, so support goes where it lifts a stage.
7 A season
A season is measured in movement, not activities delivered.
From planting in October to harvest in June, document-verified records rose from 31% to 64%, 214 farms improved their score, 96 found buyers, and every figure traces to the farm, the document and the officer.
Reports you can ask for
What moved across a programme's businesses from the locked starting position to the review, who advanced, stalled or weakened, each decision and the route that follows.
Income, expenses and profit by industry, region and village, month by month, down to each business.
Hires and exits by month and by region, the type of work, who was hired and why people left.
Every member by stage of growth, what holds them where they are, who is waiting and who joined when.
One business's whole file: its stage, its diagnostic against peers, its money, people, what it sells and its documents.
One industry's diagnostic scores against the network, by village and region, with a summary in plain language.
What members are asking for, grouped by need, with the members who could supply each one.
What members sell, by category and village, the top storefronts and how listings are priced.
Members' completed projects and milestones as a document, with photos, and values shown as bands or exact figures.