About

What is Kinaki?

Kinaki is a unique and intuitive data analysis, reporting and sharing tool. It provides a platform for timely and meaningful project monitoring systems for humanitarian, development and social service organizations.

Kinaki removes technological obstacles to make data collection and analysis easy and efficient; so you spend less time at the computer and more time in communities and implementing projects.

Why use Kinaki?

Kinaki is intuitive and easy to use; start-up time is fast. Our goal is to remain accessible to organizations of all sizes so our pricing is competitive compared to other tools on the market. We have a strong team with a diverse range of skills in Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning, Program Design, Project Management and IT; they are ready to support you every step of the way.

Kinaki is unique in that it combines qualitative and quantitative data analysis. We want you to be able to do all your data analysis in one place and be with you from the start to finish of your data journey. We have free project design tools; data collection tools including a mobile app, online forms and the option to print surveys; an intuitive data analysis dashboard; and a reporting tool in which you can report on your indicators and add notes and analysis for context.

Salanga is the proud founder of Kinaki. Salanga is a social enterprise providing capacity building, advisory and technical expertise to non-profit, academic and public sector organizations and institutions. Salanga specializes in community-led monitoring, evaluation and learning, project design, and proposal development.

 

 

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Who we work with

Deo

Deo Imaniragwa – Program Officer, Monitoring Evaluation Learning - Canadian Fund for Innovation and Transformation

Kinaki is a great and easy-to-use tool, it has engaging features with drag and drop modules to convey data in a visual way. We recommend Kinaki to both new and experienced organizations working in the international development sector.

Lenka Dobias-Cerna – Independent Evaluator

I used Kinaki with my team to evaluate a $2.6 million dollar project funded by Global Affairs Canada in Rwanda. Having data in one place, easily accessible and understandable, helped us greatly in the preparation phase and served as a valuable basis for further research in the field during the evaluation. We used Kinaki also for the baseline and endline surveys comparison analysis. Kinaki was very easy to learn and use, and served as a professional tool.

Suraj Shrestha – Program Advisor, ADRA Laos

[ADRA Laos] has been using Kinaki for a number of years. It’s dynamic, user-friendly, and great for calculating indicators and generating reports; we find it particularly helpful for comparative analysis. Using Kinaki has saved a lot of time compared to using Excel for storing and analyzing project data. A great benefit of Kinaki is the data is available to refer to at any time, this allows us to do different or more in-depth analyses depending on what information we’re looking for. I recommend Kinaki to organizations wanting to really dig into their projects’ data.

David Kozarichuk – David Kozarichuk, Senior M&E Coordinator, ADRA Canada

For us, the best thing about Kinaki is that it serves as a central data repository between ourselves, the implementing partner, the donor, and any consultants we use. This greatly increases the transparency, accountability, and communication between all parties involved. Kinaki’s reporting feature allows us to have consistent reporting year after year and significantly reduces the amount of time involved in calculating performance management indicators.

Natalie Zend

Natalie Zend – ZENDialogue and Mosaic.net International Inc.

We were running the Results Based Management and Theory of Change course online during COVID for the first time and wanted to showcase a way of learning and working remotely that could be of value to participants after the course. We specifically wanted to showcase Kinaki because it’s made in Canada, designed for international development practitioners, supports people and organizations through the whole programming cycle, and the project design tools relevant to our workshop are free.

Before offering the course online, we had people work with cards on the wall to create Logic Models and Performance Measurement Frameworks for a case study project. The challenge Kinaki helped us to solve was how to support participants to do those exercises virtually.

I would recommend Kinaki to international development organizations looking for an app to support MEL throughout the project cycle, from design to monitoring to evaluation, and including data collection, analysis and reporting.

Our team

Jakub Nemec

Program Director

Jakub is the Executive Director for Salanga and the design lead behind Kinaki. Jakub has a BA in International Territorial Studies and MA in International Development. He is an experienced and engaging trainer with over 10 years of experience training More

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Jakub is the Executive Director for Salanga and the design lead behind Kinaki.

Jakub has a BA in International Territorial Studies and MA in International Development. He is an experienced and engaging trainer with over 10 years of experience training development practitioners and students in safety and security, proposal writing, and monitoring and evaluation.

Jakub began his career in international development working in Turkey, Ghana and Mongolia. Jakub has a passion for the safety and security of aid workers. Through his work he realized that poorly trained and poorly prepared aid workers were putting humanitarian and development programs at risk, ultimately doing a disservice to the people they were intending to help. In 2007 he and his colleague founded Salanga as an organization to train aid workers and organizations in personal safety and security management.

Since then Salanga has expanded its focus to include monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), proposal writing and technical expertise for NGOs. Jakub has supported teams in countries like Haiti, Niger, Philippines, Cambodia and Rwanda – to name a few – in proposal writing, project implementation and MEAL. Through these experiences he noticed that the challenges to meet reporting requirements, tight timelines and other administrative needs were having an impact on implementing teams’ ability to remain focused on community engagement and to meet community needs. In 2013 he and his colleagues at Salanga developed Kinaki, a MEAL tool to help make data collection, analysis and reporting easier and more efficient. In developing Kinaki his goal was to make using project data more accessible and intuitive so project teams can spend more time working with communities and using data to inform their projects. Jakub has trained numerous project teams in mobile data collection, which works hand-in-hand with Kinaki to make monitoring and evaluation more efficient.

Jakub uses his experience working with project teams to work with our software developers to lead the design process for Kinaki, engaging users and the development community in the process. He ensures Kinaki remains true to its original purposes, to be intuitive and easy-to-use; accessible for clients working in all contexts; and flexible enough to measure all kinds of data.

Volunteer work is an important part of Jakub’s life. Jakub served as a volunteer board member of the Ontario Council of International Cooperation (OCIC) from 2015-2016. He currently volunteers with Romea, an organization providing scholarships to students from the Roma community, providing programmatic support.

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Paula Richardson

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Program Lead

Paula is passionate about monitoring, evaluation and learning and driven to use data to make a difference. As the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Program Lead for Salanga she coaches organizations to identify key metrics, craft useful and gender-sensitive data More

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Paula is passionate about monitoring, evaluation and learning and driven to use data to make a difference. As the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Program Lead for Salanga she coaches organizations to identify key metrics, craft useful and gender-sensitive data collection tools and implement software for better data storage, analysis and learning. Paula is the go-to person for designing user-friendly data management and evidence-based learning tools and systems, and her expertise in Food Security, Sustainable Economic Development/Market Development, Gender and Organizational Development projects provides a key advantage for clients.

Paula has 15+ years in the development sector managing complex projects and spearheading cutting-edge monitoring, evaluation and learning tools and technology for over 15 programs in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (ranging from $2–$20 Million in budget). She has boosted the MEL capacity of various organizations including the Canadian Hunger Foundation (past MEL Manager), Canadian Feed the Children, Vets Without Boarders, World University Services of Canada (WUSC), Save the Children, Well Grounded, Aga Khan Foundation, Plan International, Humber College and USC Canada (current part-time MEL Manager). Paula has overseas experience in Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica and Guyana.

Paula holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School (Carleton University), and a B.A. Honours in International Development and Gender, where she was awarded the Canadian Graduate Scholarship for her thesis work on African development (University of Guelph). She has undergone further training from Humber College, the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) (World Bank), and the School of Oriental and African Affairs (London, UK).

She has certificates in “Sampling Techniques for Development Evaluation”, “Excel Level II and III”, “Survey Design”, “Program Logic Model and Evaluation Matrix”, “Microsoft Access Data Base I”, and “Participatory Techniques for Assessment and Evaluation.”

Paula is a seasoned facilitator and excels at building capacity, buy-in and ownership in MEL activities. She has conducted over 50 trainings and workshops with international development organizations and government, and presented at Universities, MOASIC’s 3-day advanced M&E courses and at the Canadian Evaluation Society Conference (Ottawa 2015/Vancouver 2017) and the Global Development Symposium (Guelph 2012/13/14).

Paula is committed to using MEL tools to listen deeply. She pursues data collection efforts and methods that elevate local voices and perspectives in order to enable project participants to inform and influence their own knowledge systems and in turn the projects and policies that affect them. She makes MEL an engaging and collaborative process by including a range of stakeholders in data interpretation exercises in order to stimulate joint inquiry and catalyze learning and evidence-based decision-making within individuals and across organizations.

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Petra Brtnikova

Project Manager

Petra is a Project Manager with Salanga though our partners fondly call her the ‘Kinaki Guru‘. She works with Salanga’s partners providing timely support, helping with problem-solving and troubleshooting, and providing capacity building and training on all things MEL and More

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Petra is a Project Manager with Salanga though our partners fondly call her the ‘Kinaki Guru‘. She works with Salanga’s partners providing timely support, helping with problem-solving and troubleshooting, and providing capacity building and training on all things MEL and Kinaki.

Petra is a MEL enthusiast with exceptional skills in qualitative and participatory research and monitoring techniques. She is an experienced trainer of trainers for Focus Groups, Key Informant Interviews, and Mobile Data Collection, having delivered training for teams and individuals around the world.

Petra is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague. She has extensive experience conducting research in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Brazil. As part of her Ph.D., Petra participated in the evaluation of a European Commission-financed program. She conducted surveys, interviews and focus groups with project participants in Cambodia and Vietnam and led the report writing process for the six countries involved in the study.  Having personal experience using various software for data analysis, Petra has a great appreciation for Kinaki – making the work much more simple, enjoyable and professional. She believes our users have the same experience.

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Alexander Nayve

Community-led Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor

Alexander D. Nayve serves as the Community-led Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (CoLMEL) advisor for Salanga. Alex has a Bachelor’s degree in science specializing in Biology and a master’s degree in Disaster Risk Management. He comes from the Philippines with experience More

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Alexander D. Nayve serves as the Community-led Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (CoLMEL) advisor for Salanga. Alex has a Bachelor’s degree in science specializing in Biology and a master’s degree in Disaster Risk Management.

He comes from the Philippines with experience in community development work since 1996, and DRR and humanitarian aid since 2006. Serving in various capacities, he has worked for NGOs such as the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), PLAN, CARE, Save the Children, Fundacion IPADE, Christian Aid, and ADRA Philippines. Working for these NGOs exposed him to direct implementation and partnership-based programming approaches for projects that spanned the sectors of natural resource management, child-centred community development, integrated conservation and development, disaster relief, early recovery, rehabilitation and resilience, maternal and child health and nutrition.

He was drawn to monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) during his work with PRRM, CARE, IPADE, Christian Aid and ADRA Philippines. This earned him exposure to the design and MEL practices of these organizations, and their donor proposal development and reporting requirements. He started testing participatory quality monitoring approaches in projects with ADRA Philippines – and is now bent on pursuing his interest in ColMEL with Salanga and its implementing partners.

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David Valenta

Data Scientist

David works at Salanga as a Data Scientist. He has a Bachelor’s in Economics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and Master in International Development Studies with a specialization in Economics of Development from Wageningen University in The Netherlands. More

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David works at Salanga as a Data Scientist.

He has a Bachelor’s in Economics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and Master in International Development Studies with a specialization in Economics of Development from Wageningen University in The Netherlands.

Prior to joining Salanga, during his master studies, David worked on impact evaluations in Ghana and Sierra Leone. He is experienced in the development of survey instruments, setting up electronic data collection and training survey teams. Furthermore, he possesses advanced skilled in data analysis and statistical methods and facilitates training sessions on working with data and data analysis.

David is an important member of the Kinaki 6 design team and leads testing of the product. He hopes to provide Kinaki users with easy and pleasant user experience. Further, he is eager to advise Kinaki clients with their needs regarding survey design, data management and analysis.

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Christina Masching

Partnership Manager

Christina is the Partnership Manager for Salanga. She is passionate about finding ways to make data collection, analysis and reporting more efficient for Salanga’s partner organizations. Through her work with Salanga, Christina builds on her extensive experience in international development More

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Christina is the Partnership Manager for Salanga. She is passionate about finding ways to make data collection, analysis and reporting more efficient for Salanga’s partner organizations. Through her work with Salanga, Christina builds on her extensive experience in international development and social work.

Christina has 10 years of experience as a project manager and technical advisor for development, humanitarian and social projects in Haiti, Zambia, Tanzania, Canada and elsewhere around the world. Christina brings to Salanga her skills in MEL, project design and proposal development, project management and coordination, reporting, facilitation, and training.  She has been on the proposal writing team for successfully funded projects ranging from $1 million to 24 million CAD. Christina has trained numerous organizations in mobile data collection and results-based management. She is excited about helping organizations find ways to use technology to make their work more efficient.

Christina has a Master of Social Work and Honours B.A. in Global Studies and Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University.  She has previously worked for ADRA Canada and WaterAid Canada. She has certificates in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and Results-Based Management.

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Indigenious

Software Development Team

Alex Deva has been a web developer since the web existed. He thinks of programming as an exciting way to create things, and to create tools that create things. Together with Raul Radu, he founded Indigenious Development in 2007. Alex More

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Alex Deva has been a web developer since the web existed. He thinks of
programming as an exciting way to create things, and to create tools that
create things. Together with Raul Radu, he founded Indigenious Development in
2007. Alex is a Romanian living in Sweden with his family.

 

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Peter Steele

Kinaki Learning Specialist

Peter is a Salanga consultant, partnering with Kinaki’s learning team to develop client-focused onboarding and education strategies. Based in Canada, Peter graduated with a Master’s degree in International Development Studies and has experience with adult learning, online user engagement, and More

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Peter is a Salanga consultant, partnering with Kinaki’s learning team to develop client-focused onboarding and education strategies. Based in Canada, Peter graduated with a Master’s degree in International Development Studies and has experience with adult learning, online user engagement, and digital content creation. Working with Kinaki, Peter is focused on promoting positive user experience and guiding software understanding for Salanga’s partners around the globe.

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Victoria Bryce

Kinaki Knowledge Manager

Victoria has 12 years of experience in international community development projects, spending a large portion of that time in countries throughout East and West Africa. She specializes in Monitoring and Evaluation for youth resilience and child protection initiatives, working with More

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Victoria has 12 years of experience in international community development projects, spending a large portion of that time in countries throughout East and West Africa. She specializes in Monitoring and Evaluation for youth resilience and child protection initiatives, working with the security sector and communities on how to prevent children from being used in conflicts. She is passionate about knowledge mobilization and training groups on the importance of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning – and how to prove what they are doing works. She is based in Halifax, Canada, and spends her non-work time with her city-planning husband and two young children, exploring and cycling through the beaches and parks of Nova Scotia.

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The Technology

Kinaki is a cloud-based, out-of-the-box solution for your project design, data collection, storage, analysis and reporting needs. You can access it from anywhere around the world, whenever you need it.

We recognize that the data you store in Kinaki is important and may be sensitive. Security is a top concern. Kinaki takes the following security measures to ensure your data is safe: (i) Secured communication with the server (all communication is encrypted); (ii) Data is regularly backed-up and backups are encrypted; (iii) Each access is logged in and protected; (iv) The platform itself runs on protected and encrypted servers.