Federation / Member Associations
Shared platform. Isolated members. Residual capacity in the network.
Federated structures fail at the join between Member Associations and the secretariat. Data arrives fragmented across business planning systems, DHIS2, NetSuite, accreditation tools and Excel. Manual consolidation is the real bottleneck — not the dashboard. IMP is the operational layer so central dashboards are not fed by heroic Excel.
The problem you feel
Source fragmentation. Each Association invents a spreadsheet. The secretariat triangulates. Accreditation, finance and MERL do not share a record. When an Association’s team turns over, the network loses the layer. Another reporting burden is not the answer — residual capacity in the member tenant is.
What you stop doing
- Feeding the central dashboard from heroic Excel
- Treating source fragmentation as a BI problem
- Adding another reporting burden on Associations
- Losing the layer when an Association team turns over
What you get
- A tenant per Member Association or implementing unit
- Consent, delivery evidence and claims under one policy framework
- Cleaner landing into existing Snowflake / Power BI layers
- MERL Workspace Diagnostic USD 1,500 so one or two Associations can prove the fit
- Secretariat sees authorised roll-ups — not every row of every member
- The Association keeps the workspace after the project
A week on IMP
Member Association
They run people, programmes, results and claims in a workspace they keep. It is not another extract they email to HQ.
Secretariat
A governed operational layer feeding the dashboard you already have. Consolidation stops being the job.
Proof
One or two Associations in a 90-day sandbox, with success criteria, before a network-wide decision.
The shift
Secretariat
From
Source fragmentation
To
A governed operational layer
Member Association
From
Another reporting burden
To
A workspace they keep after close-out
How this is usually bought
Do not start network-wide. Request the USD 1,500 diagnostic with one or two Associations. 60-day 100% credit into the USD 4,500 assignment.
Capabilities to open next
Questions for this seat
- Will this replace DHIS2, NetSuite or accreditation tools?
- No. Those remain. IMP is the programme operational layer so they are not fed by heroic Excel. We are explicit about this because replacing them is how these programmes fail.
- Can an Association refuse HQ seeing their people?
- Yes. Isolation is the product. HQ roll-up is authorised export and portfolio views — not open row-level access by default.
The 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.