ngo.etNGO management

One system for an Ethiopian NGO’s working day.

Programmes, beneficiaries, evidence, money, procurement and payroll in one place — with your organisation’s own address on ngo.et, and a database of its own behind it.

Your workspace would answer at yourngo.ngo.et

A Tuesday, start to finish

Six moments from one working day. The organisation is invented; the behaviour is the system’s own.

Kolfe site, Addis Ababa

The register is opened at the site, not back at the office

A programme officer records attendance against today's activity from a phone. The beneficiary is already on the register, so the entry attaches to a person with a history rather than creating a second copy of her.

Attendance · Nutrition counselling, session 14
BeneficiaryCodeStatus
Participant 004BEN-0041Present
Participant 009BEN-0117Present
Participant 012BEN-0203Absent
MEAL officer

Today's numbers meet the target they were promised against

An achievement is recorded against an indicator that already has a target and a baseline. The gap is arithmetic from then on, which is what makes a quarterly report something you read rather than assemble.

Indicator · Mothers completing counselling
Target, this quarter
480
Recorded so far
362
Against target
75%
Finance

Money does not move until somebody puts their name on it

An expenditure sits in a queue with the budget line it would draw from and the project it belongs to. Approving it is a recorded act: who approved, when, and against which budget.

Expenditure · awaiting approval
DescriptionAmount, ETBStatus
Fuel, field vehicle7,450.00Submitted
Training venue, Adama18,200.00Submitted
Printing, counselling cards2,100.00Approved
Procurement

A purchase keeps the paperwork it was born with

A requisition becomes a tender, the tender becomes an order, and the order carries its own bid scores and invoices. A year later the question is not who signed it but where the file is, and the file is attached to the order.

Purchase order PO-2026-038
  1. Requisition
  2. Tender, 3 bids
  3. Order
  4. Invoice
Payroll

The payslip is right because the bands are the country's own

Employment income tax is charged on the gross, and the employee's 7% pension comes off after it — the opposite of several countries, and the single easiest thing to get quietly wrong in a month's payroll.

One payslip, gross 12,000 ETB
Gross
12,000.00
Taxable grosspension does not reduce it
12,000.00
Income tax, 30% band less 1,350
−2,250.00
Pension, employee 7%
−840.00
Net pay
8,910.00
Director's desk

The report is an export, not a fortnight

The quarter's figures come out of the same records the day was entered into, and each one can be followed back to the activity, the beneficiary and the expenditure behind it. That trail is what a donor's auditor actually asks for.

Followed back from one reported figure
  1. Donor report
  2. Indicator
  3. Activity
  4. Beneficiary
  5. Expenditure

The organisations, people and figures above are invented for this page. The tax bands and the net pay are not: those are the bands the payroll applies.

Not a report you assemble. A day you can follow back.

14 modules
Projects through payroll, switched on per organisation by its own administrator.
Your spreadsheets first
Validated import templates map the lists you already keep, instead of asking anybody to retype them.
Backups you can open
Each organisation's database is backed up on its own, and a restore is something you can test rather than assume.

Government sits on .gov.et. Ethiopian NGOs can sit on ngo.et.

Each organisation answers at its own name, and staff sign in there rather than at somebody else’s address. The name is yours on the page, in the link you send a donor, and in the report that comes out of it.

Claim your organisation’s address

Your address would read

yourngo.ngo.et
Staff
Sign in at your own address, not a shared one
Donors
Open the portal link you send them, under your name
Records
Stay in a database of your own, backed up on its own

What is inside

Fourteen modules. An organisation is given the ones its plan covers, and its administrator can switch any of them off.

  1. ProjectsBudgets, schedule, risks, proposals, closure
  2. ActivitiesSessions, participants, locations, attendance
  3. BeneficiariesOne register, consent recorded, duplicates merged
  4. MEALIndicators, targets, achievement, data quality
  5. DocumentsVersioned files, searchable by what is inside them
  6. FinanceBudgets, expenditure, income, approvals, reconciliation
  7. ProcurementRequisitions, tenders, bid scores, orders, invoices
  8. InventoryStock, assets, expiry, counts, maintenance, disposal
  9. PeopleStaff records, contracts, leave, attendance, skills
  10. PayrollEthiopian tax bands, pension, loans, payslips, bank files
  11. CommunicationsBroadcasts, templates, delivery log, reminders
  12. DonorsDonor records, impact reports, their own portal
  13. FeedbackPublic intake, response, safeguarding routing
  14. Institutional historyTimeline, achievements, partnerships, annual reports

Plans

The tiers differ by how much you hold and which modules are switched on. What you pay depends on your size and how much help you want setting up, so we quote it on the call rather than guessing here.

EssentialsProgramme delivery and evidence, for a small organisation.Price on enquiry
People
10
Projects
5
Beneficiaries
2,000
Files
1 GB
Exports a month
50

5of 14 modules

Projects, activities, beneficiaries, MEAL and documents.

StandardAdds the money and the supply chain.Price on enquiry
People
40
Projects
25
Beneficiaries
20,000
Files
10 GB
Exports a month
300

11of 14 modules

Adds communications, donors, feedback, finance, inventory, procurement.

CompleteEvery module, with room to grow.Price on enquiry
People
No limit
Projects
No limit
Beneficiaries
No limit
Files
50 GB
Exports a month
No limit

14of 14 modules

Adds institutional history, payroll, people.

See it with your own programmes in front of you

Tell us what you run and we will walk through the parts that matter to you. A workspace is created here, with its own database — there is nothing for you to install.

We reply within one working day. Your details are used to answer this enquiry and nothing else.