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From the field visit to the donor report.

Beneficiaries, field visits, indicators, grants, donations and finance in one system built around your results framework. What a field officer records today counts in the donor report, so nobody rebuilds the numbers in Excel at quarter end.

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Young woman in a Youth Platform T-shirt speaking into a microphone at a regional youth forum
Dashboard Search FAFaith AchiengM&E Manager
Q4 2026 Welcome back, Faith Riverbend Community Trust, Tuesday 6 October 2026. Register household Assign visits New report
People reached, 202618,642against 21,000 target
Indicators on track31 of 384 at risk
Grant funds spentKES 124.6M58% of KES 214M awarded
Forms to review42from 9 field officers
Donor reports due
ReportDonorDueStatus
Q3 report, WASH Siaya Clean Water Fund 15 Oct ready
Interim, Youth Jobs Youth Futures Fund 31 Oct in review
Annual, Nutrition Health Equity Fund 30 Nov drafting
Recent activity
62 forms synced from LodwarNutrition Turkana, 12 min ago
Indicator 2.3 now at riskHouseholds with WASH, 412 of 800
M-Pesa gift, KES 5,000Wanjiku Kariuki, receipt sent
Request PR-0187 approvedWater tanks, KES 486,000, Siaya
People reached, 2026 18,642 against 21,000 target
Your programmes run on WhatsApp. Excel. Paper forms.
  • Field data arrives weeks latePaper forms travel back from the field, someone types them up, and the mistakes come too.
  • One person, counted three timesEach project keeps its own beneficiary list, so the totals never quite add up.
  • Spend per grant is a guessPayments sit in the general ledger, not against each donor's budget lines.
  • Reporting season eats a monthEvery donor wants a different format, so the team rebuilds the same numbers again.

Your programmes deserve better.

The system

M&E, grants and donors. One login.

Sixteen modules on one database, so a household visit recorded in the field counts towards the right indicator, grant and donor report without anyone typing it twice. Click around the dashboard below to open each module, then start with the ones your next report needs.

Try it: open a module from the menu, click a record, filter the list, or press New project and save.

RCRiverbend Community TrustNGO, Kenya and Zambia
Dashboard FAFaith AchiengM&E Manager
Q4 2026 Welcome back, Faith Riverbend Community Trust, Tuesday 6 October 2026.
People reached, 202618,642against 21,000 target
Indicators on track31 of 384 at risk
Grant funds spentKES 124.6M58% of KES 214M awarded
Forms to review42from 9 field officers
Donor reports due
ReportDonorDueStatus
Q3 report, WASH Siaya Clean Water Fund 15 Oct ready
Interim, Youth Jobs Youth Futures Fund 31 Oct in review
Annual, Nutrition Health Equity Fund 30 Nov drafting
Recent activity
62 forms synced from LodwarNutrition Turkana, 12 min ago
Indicator 2.3 now at riskHouseholds with WASH, 412 of 800
M-Pesa gift, KES 5,000Wanjiku Kariuki, receipt sent
Request PR-0187 approvedWater tanks, KES 486,000, Siaya

Dashboard

Reach, indicators, grant spend and reports due across every project: the first screen the M&E team sees each morning.

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Want this for your programmes? Let us build yours.

We walk you through it on a call, map how your organisation works, and send a fixed-scope proposal in writing.

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Custom built, not off the shelf. Every system we build is made to fit the client's needs: the modules, screens, wording and reports follow how your organisation works. The business, names and figures in this demo are examples.

Field data collection

Counted in the field, even offline.

Mobile forms that work offline, with GPS, photos and supervisor review before a record counts.

  • Form builder
  • Works offline
  • GPS, photos and signatures
Field submissions Search FAFaith AchiengM&E Manager
Field submissionsForms from field teams, today.
Form builder Sync status Assign visits
Forms today386
Waiting to sync42on 5 phones
To review57
Officers active27
Search officer or form All forms All projects Today
FormOfficerAreaSubmittedStatus
Household visit Mercy Chebet Nyalenda, Kisumu 10:42 approved
Child MUAC screening Peter Ekai Kalokol, Turkana 10:15 in review
ANC follow-up Chileshe Mulenga Katete, Eastern 09:58 returned
Water point check Otieno Ouma Bondo, Siaya 09:30 approved
Cash recipient check Omar Abdi Balambala, Garissa Yesterday waiting to sync
Forms submitted, last 6 days
Wed Thu Fri Sat Mon Tue
Field submissionslive
Household visit Mercy Chebet approved
Child MUAC screening Peter Ekai in review
ANC follow-up Chileshe Mulenga returned
Results & indicators

Indicators that update themselves.

Your logframe in the system: outcomes, outputs and indicators, with targets against actuals as data comes in.

  • Logframe builder
  • Indicator reference sheets
  • Targets by period and place
Results framework Search FAFaith AchiengM&E Manager
Results frameworkAll projects, Q3 2026 (July to September).
Logframe Data quality Add indicator
Indicators38
On track31of 38 indicators
At risk4action plans requested
Data verified94%
Search indicator All projects All outcomes Q3 2026
IndicatorProjectTargetActualStatus
Girls enrolled Girls in School 1,200 1,146 on track
Children screened Nutrition Turkana 6,000 4,410 behind
Households with WASH WASH Siaya 800 412 at risk
Youth placed in jobs Youth Jobs Lusaka 450 468 achieved
Facility deliveries Safe Motherhood 2,400 1,980 on track
Reach against target, %
Kisumu Siaya Turkana Garissa Lusaka Chipata
Indicators 38 On track: 31
Budgets & burn rate

Every grant, spent as planned.

Grant budgets by line, every payment coded to them, and burn rate alerts before a donor spots a problem.

  • Budgets in the donor's format
  • Payments coded to budget lines
  • Budget against actual
Budgets Search FAFaith AchiengM&E Manager
BudgetsBudget against actual, all grants, to 30 Sep 2026.
Reallocations Export Code payments
Budget, all grantsKES 214M
Spent to dateKES 124.6M58% of budget
CommittedKES 9.8M
Uncoded payments4
Search budget line All grants All cost centres To 30 Sep
GrantBudgetSpentBurnStatus
WASH Siaya KES 54.2M KES 33.1M 61% on plan
Youth Jobs Lusaka ZMW 6.8M ZMW 5.9M 87% fast burn
Nutrition Turkana KES 48.6M KES 16.0M 33% underspend
Safe Motherhood USD 610K USD 98K 16% on plan
Drought Cash Garissa KES 21.4M KES 19.8M 93% closing
Spend by month, KES M
Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
Budgetslive
WASH Siaya KES 54.2M on plan
Youth Jobs Lusaka ZMW 6.8M fast burn
Nutrition Turkana KES 48.6M underspend
How data moves

One visit, counted all the way up.

What a field officer records in a village reaches the indicator, the grant and the donor report through one system, checked once and never typed again.

  1. 01

    Visit

    An officer visits a household and fills the form on the phone, with or without signal.

  2. 02

    Sync

    The form syncs when the phone finds a network, with GPS, photos and consent attached.

  3. 03

    Review

    A supervisor checks it against the register, then approves it or returns it with a comment.

  4. 04

    Count

    Approved data counts towards the right indicators, split by sex, age and place.

  5. 05

    Cost

    The activity's spend is coded to its grant and budget line, so results sit next to the money.

  6. 06

    Report

    The donor report fills its tables from the same data, then goes through review and sign-off.

Portals

From the field to the board.

Field officers work from a phone app that keeps going without signal. Programme managers watch indicators move as forms sync, and donors and the board get a live dashboard instead of a forty-page attachment.

For field teams, programme managers & m&e and donors & board.

Built for Kenya and Zambia

Wired into how NGOs work here.

M-Pesa giving and payouts

Donations by STK push and paybill, plus bulk payouts for stipends, cash transfers and volunteer allowances.

Choose a connection to see what it does.

NPinch for NGOs
Running today

Built for NGOs and live.

We run an NGO management system for a client today. Health Financing CoP tracks health budgets across 22 African countries on a platform we built, and The Youth Platform runs its members portal with us. #MyLittleBigThing, Nuggets of Life, WellBoring Groundwater and CITAM+ Zambia are live on platforms we built and host, and we built the Project Concern Zambia website.

Health Financing CoP home page Health Financing CoPData platform Health budget tracker for 22 African countries, with a learning hub for civil society. healthfinancingcop.africa The Youth Platform home page The Youth PlatformNetwork platform A regional youth network's site, projects and members portal. theyouthplatform.org Nuggets of Life home page Nuggets of LifeCommunity site Youth mentorship and leadership community: sessions, stories and sign-ups. nuggetsoflife.org WellBoring Groundwater home page WellBoring GroundwaterGiving site Safe water and sanitation for rural schools, with giving built in. wellboringgw.org CITAM+ Zambia home page CITAM+ ZambiaProgramme site Community initiative for TB, HIV and malaria care in Zambia. citamplus.org #MyLittleBigThing home page #MyLittleBigThingLearning platform eLearning, mentorship and an SDG innovation challenge for African university students. mylittlebigthing.com
See every project Youth Platform members dancing at an event, one wearing a TYP T-shirt Case study · NGO & Advocacy The Youth Platform Elevating regional advocacy through compelling storytelling and highly targeted digital distribution. 2.5M+Reach across East Africa120kSignatures collected in 30 days15Regional policies impacted Read the case study
Counted. Every visit and form lands in the results framework, once.
Accountable. Budget against spend per grant, ready for any donor.
Built for the field. Offline forms, SMS reach and data protection, in Kenya and Zambia.
Everything inside

227 features. 24 areas, one system.

Every feature in Pinch for NGOs, grouped by area. Pick an area, or search for the thing you need.

Projects & programmes

Every programme and project with its sites, partners, donors, team and timeline on one page.

  • Programme and project structureProgrammes hold projects, projects hold sites and activities, so results roll up from a village to the country.
  • Project profile pageGoal, dates, donors, budget, team, sites and documents on one page, with tabs for results, spend and risks.
  • Sites and catchment areasKenyan counties, sub-counties and wards, Zambian districts and villages, set per project with GPS points.
  • Implementing partnersPartner organisations per project, with their sub-grants, contacts, reporting dates and the areas they cover.
  • Proposal and logframe documentsProposal, logframe, theory of change and agreements stored with the project and versioned when they change.
  • Milestones and calendarStart-up, baseline, mid-term review and close-out dates with owners and reminders before each one.
  • Risk registerRisks scored by likelihood and impact, each with an owner and a mitigation, reviewed every quarter.
  • Programme dashboardReach, indicator progress, spend and open issues for every project, side by side on one screen.
  • Cross-cutting tagsTag projects by theme, such as gender, climate or disability, and report across all of them at once.
  • Close-out checklistFinal report, asset handover, file archive and partner sign-off ticked off before a project is closed.
  • Country and field officesProjects grouped by country, region and field office, each office with its own approvers, users and reports.
  • Compliance calendarAnnual returns, audits, tax exemption and work permit renewals per country, with the evidence filed against each.
Growth

And the marketing to grow support.

Website DevelopmentA website that tells your story, takes donations and shows the results donors ask for. Digital MarketingCampaigns that grow monthly givers and fill trainings, measured in sign-ups, not likes. VideographyField stories filmed with consent, for donor reports, appeals and social media.
Rollout

Live in 21 working days.

A fixed plan you can hold us to: what happens on which working day, from the first walk-through to the day your team goes live.

01Start from your logframe
Days 1 to 3

We map your results framework, data tools and donor reports, and agree which modules go first.

02Build in sprints
Days 4 to 15

Working screens to test every few days, tested by your M&E team and a few field officers.

03Move your data
Days 16 to 18

Beneficiaries, grants, budgets and past results imported, de-duplicated and checked with you.

04Train and go live
Days 19 to 21

Field teams trained where they work, managers in the office. We stay close through the first donor report.

Questions

Before you ask.

What is Pinch for NGOs?

An NGO management system built by Pinch Africa for programmes in Kenya and Zambia: projects, M&E indicators, offline field data, beneficiaries, cases, grants, budgets, donors and donor reports in one system.

How long does it take to get our organisation live?

21 working days, from the first walk-through to go-live. Days 1 to 3 we map how you work, days 4 to 15 we build and you test, days 16 to 18 we move your data, and days 19 to 21 we train your team and switch on.

Does the field app work without signal?

Yes. Forms are saved on the phone and sync when the officer is back in range. Supervisors can see what is still waiting, so nothing is lost or counted twice.

Can it produce reports in each donor's format?

Yes. We set up a report pack for each donor from their own template, filled from the same data, so the numbers in every report agree with each other.

How do you handle sensitive beneficiary data?

Consent is recorded with each record, sensitive fields are visible only to the roles that need them, and every view and change is logged, in line with the Data Protection Act 2019.

Do you work with programmes in Zambia?

Yes. We have a studio in Lusaka, and one system can run Kenyan and Zambian programmes side by side, with budgets and reports in KES and ZMW.

What does it cost?

It depends on the modules and the number of users. After a free scoping call you get a fixed-scope proposal in writing, so you can put the cost into a grant budget before we start.

Let's map your programmes.

A free scoping call, then a fixed-scope proposal in writing.

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