As an Organizational Admin, you can create a Program – an overarching entity for many projects within your organization. You attach existing projects to a program in order to measure results across many projects. 

Getting Started

At the Program level, you can include as many nested projects as you like.

Depending on how large your organization is and how much you are using Kinaki, will determine if you need to create a program(s).

For example, you could have a Program designated to “Health and Nutrition”, which may have several different projects (with the same or different funder) connected to it.

Or, you could have a Program that is really more of a multi-country project. In this way, you can set up your Kinaki Program as the umbrella “project”, and create a separate project for each country you are working in.

If your Program has some overall results, objectives, or goals that it aims to achieve, you may add those on the Program Logic page. 

Program Indicators and Reports

You can create a Program Report that will show off your aggregated results – or analysis calculated from project fields – from the different projects under your program. You can also make changes to existing reports.

After you have added your indicators, you can add them to a Program Report. These are reports that can cover multiple projects and give a systematic view of indicator progress across different projects. 

Aggregating Project Results

The main feature of a Program is that it allows the aggregation of results from all (or selected) projects within the program and the ability to see your results on that higher level.

This reduces the time and manual resources often required to aggregate indicator results either for all the different countries you are working in for the same project, or for different projects that have the same overarching theme.

Implementing Custom Fields

Custom Fields are a way to incorporate additional project details into your organization.

These fields can be helpful to track key thematic elements of your project, and to provide comparative values at the Program level.

Filling in the Blanks

If you’ve designed a project in Kinaki before, you will be able to perform the same tasks and create a Program – from the Program Logic to the Program Indicators.

We’ve written out the step-by-step instructions for you to match your data and aggregate your results. This functionality is especially helpful when creating your Program reports.

Have you watched our Overview video yet? Or explored the Demo Project video series? Both will give you even better understanding of how Kinaki works, and how you can be most efficient and effective with your time working in Kinaki.

Next Steps

While Programs can be used by any organization, the best use of these features rely on building a multi-project analysis.

Read along to Journey #6: Tracking Activities and Monitoring Outputs!