MAGDA Framework
Helping international development, humanitarian aid and charity sectors make ops simpler, so you can focus on making a difference
Most teams don’t need to work harder, they simply need a clearer structure, smoother workflows and fewer things getting in the way.
MAGDA Framework is a practical and cost-effective process improvement and operational capacity strengthening approach designed for busy, stretched teams. It helps organisations identify and fix operational inefficiencies, strengthen day-to-day ways of working, and create more space for delivery, strategy and impact. In as little as 3 weeks, MAGDA can help release 4+ hours per person, per week for more meaningful work.
With MAGDA, you will gain:
More time for implementation, strategy and meaningful work
Smoother workflows and better structure
Improved coordination and share of responsibilities
Clearer priorities and decision making
Better use of systems, tools and templates
Stronger business development and proposal processes
More confidence around donor compliance and reporting
Practical and effective monitoring
Less firefighting, stress and overwhelm
Work that more often fits into normal working hours
Services offered:
Full MAGDA diagnostic and improvement cycle
Workflow and inefficiency mapping
Operational capacity strengthening
Process, system and template set-up
Monitoring and operational structure support
Business development support:
Proposal development
Pipeline management
Coordination support
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Does this sound familiar?
Time lost to rework, errors, interruptions and waiting for decisions
Constant back-and-forth with donors
Recent decline in bidding success rates
Inefficient progress monitoring
Deadlines triggering last-minute chaos
Firefighting and jumping between tasks
Lack of clear priorities and focused work
Tools that create extra work instead of making life easier
Inefficient communications generate avoidable rework
Stress and frustrated clients
Operational improvements that don’t stick long-term
Benefits for your company
Free up 4+ hours per team member, per week.
Every inefficiency has its monetary repercussions and drives you away from actually doing your job, but there is so much more waste than that. MAGDA will lead to:
The MAGDA methods
Getting to the bottom of the inefficiencies using established evaluation and data analysis techniques.
Established Evaluation Methods
Understand how work actually happens through process mapping, e-surveys, interviews and focus group discussions.
The Seven Frictions
Innovative tool for in-depth analysis to assess severity, impact, and urgency across seven most common organisational frictions. See visible improvement in operations in 3+ weeks.
Develop practical improvements that fit your reality. Check-ins following the improvements ensure support, progress and accountability.
Co-Creation and Support
Join other satisfied teams
We quickly gained clarity on what was actually slowing us down. The insights were spot-on and the follow-up support kept us moving.
Martin
MAGDA (and Magda!) were exactly what our organisation needed. They helped us fix systems and ways of working that had been frustrating us for years.
Amanda
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