Altamont Advisory
Ministries · INGOs · Federations · Development banks · Evaluators
The work stays when people leave
Monday. The person who held the evaluation is gone. Can anyone else open the sample? The consent? The findings?
If the honest answer is a shared drive and a rumour — this is the week the method has to stay.
This page prices the cycle. The next step stays here.
Already have the note? Tell us about this cycle — we price from that.
On this site
Name the cycle. Then we price it.
Step 1 of 2
Tell us about this cycle
Five questions on this site. Who sits in the chair, whether terms are live, what a successor must still open. No other store.
Step 2 of 2
A published price
Diagnostic or assignment for this MERL cycle. Invoice only. The workspace is how the work stays — not a separate product to shop.
Don’t pick a package. Brief this cycle. We price from that.
Already have the note? Tell us about this cycle — we price from that.
You already know this week
Three Mondays every programme has already had
The charger on a plane. The night before they ask. The successor with a blank folder. The method is built for the morning after.
- 01
The laptop
They packed the method with the charger. What you have left is a shared drive, a thread nobody can search, and six weeks until the report.
Ministries, country programmes, national NGOs
The files stay. The consent stays. The definitions stay — on a record the next person can open.
- 02
The week before
They asked for the chain. You had fourteen days. The results framework came back from email the night before — again.
MEAL leads, evaluation units, implementing partners
When they ask, you open the record. You do not rebuild it.
- 03
The new posting
A successor sat down on Monday. Day one was a blank folder and your name on a rumour of what was true last cycle.
INGOs, country offices, federations
They inherit the work. Not the story of the work.
What they can open
Not another dashboard they will outlive
People. Consent. Evidence. Results. In one place — so the next person inherits a record, not a reconstruction. IMP is the workspace inside the cycle. It is not a second thing to buy first.
People & consent
Who you serve, who said yes, and for what purpose — dated, on the person. A checkbox will not survive the review.
Evidence & results
Activities, indicators and actuals sit next to the people they describe. The logframe stops living in a side sheet.
Judgement
Findings after a person signs. ICR and PCR become confirmation — not a reconstruction from email the week before.
What remains
When the person leaves, the host still holds the files, the consent history and the definitions. That is the method.
What you already run
Keep the systems you already fought for
This does not replace DHIS2, NetSuite or Power BI. It is the programme record those systems are supposed to be fed by — so the join is no longer one person and a heroic spreadsheet.
Excel / CSV
Load what you already have. Spreadsheet-first teams do not retype history.
Kobo
Connect, list and preview are live. CSV already lands in the record.
DHIS2 / HMIS
Keep them. This is the programme record those systems are supposed to be fed by.
NetSuite / ERP
Keep them. Claims sit next to the work. Payment stays in the ledger you already run.
Power BI / Snowflake
Keep them. Cleaner operational data into the dashboard you already funded.
OECD-DAC
Criteria sit next to the evidence — not rebuilt in a closing slide.
When they knock
They should not need two weeks and a favour
A mission lands. A completion report is due. Someone new sits in the chair. The chain is already there — you open it. You do not assemble it.
What a successor actually inheritsThe work stays when people leave
Don’t wait for the laptop to be on a plane. Brief the cycle the way you would brief a successor.
Already have the note? Tell us about this cycle — we price from that.