Salanga

What Salanga does

Salanga is a privately held, for-profit social enterprise incorporated in 2007 and operating from a primary office in Ottawa, Canada with a European regional office in Pilsen, Czech Republic (Tylova 23). The company provides monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) services to international development non-governmental organizations, humanitarian organizations and government donors active in 35+ countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Its founder-led team numbers 1–10 people distributed across Canada, the Philippines and the Czech Republic and works primarily remotely.

Salanga monetizes through two reinforcing streams. The first is its wholly owned Kinaki SaaS platform (https://www.kinaki.ca/), a collaborative web-based M&E product offering online Problem Tree design, Logic Model creation, Performance Measurement Frameworks, online surveys/forms with validation, automated indicator calculations, and multi-country project management; Kinaki supports freemium plus monthly subscription tiers and integrates with data collection tools such as Kobo Toolbox and SurveyCTO. The second stream is professional services delivered alongside Colmeal (Community-Led Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning), a proprietary structured methodology that places communities as the central agents of their own evidence generation. Colmeal is documented as deployed across nine countries and 130+ communities and is sold via MEAL consultancy, training, capacity building and program-design coaching; a $2.6M LEAF project for ADRA Rwanda illustrates the scale of individual engagements.

Customer concentration centres on a small set of repeat anchor relationships — most prominently ADRA Canada (active since at least 2016 across EMBRACE, PROMISE, Colmeal and partnership events), Children Believe, World Renew, ACTED Sri Lanka, Global Affairs Canada as funder, and various ADRA country offices — with co-marketing reach extended through CanWaCH Academy, World Vision Canada and Cooperation Canada. Go-to-market is hybrid: a sales-led motion for MEAL consultancy into implementing organizations, funders and governments; and a product-led growth motion for Kinaki targeting small-to-medium non-profits through digital marketing, content, webinars, social media and email lead generation.

Name

Salanga

Legal name

Salanga

Website

https://salanga.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Salanga is a for-profit social enterprise delivering MEAL software (Kinaki), community-led evaluation methodology (Colmeal), and consultancy services to international development NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and government donors across 35+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Monitoring and Evaluation Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Help Supply Services (7363)

akta.pro primary industry

Program & Project Implementation (TA Delivery) (BPADAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Technical Cooperation, Capacity Building & Policy Advisory Programs (BPADABAO), Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK), Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition Technical Assistance (BPADAEAG), Health Systems Strengthening & Global Health Technical Assistance (BPADAEAH), Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health (MNCAH) Partnerships (HLAJAOAG)

Keywords

• Monitoring and evaluation
• Community-led development
• MEAL software platform
• Humanitarian consulting
• Development program design

Headquarters

HQ city

Pilsen

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. MEAL Consultancy Services: Professional services including monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning consultancy, program design, capacity building, and training for humanitarian, development and social service organisations
2. Kinaki SaaS Software: Subscription-based web-based monitoring, evaluation and learning software sold to non-profits as a service (SaaS). Includes potential for profit-sharing tied to sales success for contract roles.
3. Training and Capacity Building: Training programs, workshops, and co-learning series on MEAL, community-led development, and related topics

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Salanga provides monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) services and tools to non-profit, humanitarian, and development organizations worldwide. Its core product is Kinaki, a collaborative web-based MEAL SaaS platform for project design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Salanga also delivers Colmeal, a community-led MEAL methodology, alongside consultancy, training, and capacity building engagements for implementing organizations, funders, and governments.

Product overview

Salanga is a for-profit social enterprise providing tools, training, and technology services in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) to humanitarian, development, and social service organizations worldwide. The core product is Kinaki, a collaborative web-based M&E software for data collection, analysis, and reporting. Alongside Kinaki, Salanga offers Colmeal, a community-led development methodology that enables marginalized communities to lead their own monitoring and evaluation processes. The company also provides consultancy services, training, and capacity building in M&E systems design. The portfolio operates as a unified offering where Kinaki serves as the technology platform while Colmeal and consultancy services provide the methodological framework and implementation support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Colmeal: Community-Led Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (Colmeal) - a structured approach for community-led governance and learning that capacitates diverse community members to monitor, analyze, and reflect on progress against their own development plans.
• Kinaki

Products and services

• Kinaki Collaborative, web-based monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL/MEAL) software built for humanitarian, development, and social service organizations. Provides online project design, data collection, indicator analysis, and reporting capabilities for multi-country project management.
• Colmeal (Community-Led MEAL) A structured approach for community-led development that capacitates diverse community members, including marginalized and vulnerable groups, to monitor, analyze, share, and reflect on progress against their own community development plans based on outcomes and indicators they define. Implemented across 9 countries and 130+ communities.
• Monitoring & Evaluation Support Services MEAL consultancy and capacity building services that help organizations design effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning systems. Services include training on M&E tools, data collection methodology, and Results-Based Management approaches for humanitarian, development, and social service organizations.
• Program Design & Implementation Consultancy Consultancy and coaching on project design, theory of change development, and proposal writing. Supports organizations to operationalize localization within their programming as a genuine shift in how decisions get made.
• Training and Capacity Building Training programs, workshops, and co-learning series on MEAL, community-led development, locally-led development, and related topics, delivered for humanitarian, development, and social service organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 76% of households harvest from their own garden for at least 8 months/year including dry seasons
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• ADRA CanadacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Long-standing MEAL technical partnership involving multiple projects including Colmeal implementation across 6 countries. ADRA Canada is a key partner for gender-transformative health and rights projects funded by Global Affairs Canada, with Salanga serving as the MEAL technical partner.
• Cooperation CanadacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to design and facilitate a five-part virtual co-learning series on locally-led development for Canadian-based international cooperation organizations. Focuses on translating locally-led development values into fundable, operational approaches.
• ACTED Sri LankacoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartnership to integrate Colmeal into ACTED Sri Lanka's AGORA-based Disaster Risk Reduction program across four districts in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, addressing climate shocks and agricultural livelihoods.
• World Vision CanadasecondaryGTM or Marketing PartnerJoint presentation partnership with World Vision Canada at CanWaCH Academy on 'From Data Collection to Use: Enhancing Your Monitoring and Evaluation Journey.'
• Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health (CanWaCH)secondaryGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership for MEAL training sessions at CanWaCH Academy, including presentations and data party facilitation techniques for non-profits.
• World RenewcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSAY project partnership working alongside World Renew and three Bangladeshi implementing partners, with Salanga serving as the Colmeal partner.
• Children BelievecoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPROMISE project partnership - multi-country initiative promoting maternal, newborn, infant and child health, with Salanga and ADRA Canada serving as the sole monitoring and evaluating body.
• Digital Public SquaresecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on Learning Brief drafting to position Digital Public Square as thought leaders in digital innovation space, involving structured discussions on key project aspects.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• TolaData: TolaData is a M&E and project management SaaS platform designed for international development NGOs, offering indicator tracking, data collection, and reporting. It targets the same small/medium non-profit customer base as Kinaki with a similar subscription model.
• Kobo Toolbox (Kobo): Kobo Toolbox is an open-source data collection platform widely used by humanitarian and development organizations, including Salanga's own integration partners. Its free/open pricing sets a competitive floor for Kinaki's paid M&E offering in the same sector.
• DevResults: DevResults is a web-based M&E and data management platform built specifically for development and humanitarian programs, similar to Salanga's Kinaki. It serves funders and implementers with indicator tracking, reporting, and multi-country project dashboards, making it a direct software peer competing for the same NGO customer base.
• Akvo: Akvo is a Dutch-founded non-profit that builds open-source tools (Akvo Flow, Akvo Lumen) and provides M&E and data services to international development programs. It is a direct peer combining SaaS tools with implementation support, serving funders and implementers in the same niche as Salanga.
• ActivityInfo: ActivityInfo is a SaaS platform for monitoring and evaluation used by humanitarian, development, and human rights organizations. It offers data collection, indicator dashboards, and reporting capabilities that overlap directly with Kinaki, targeting a similar small/medium NGO segment globally.
• Ona (formerly Ona Systems): Ona provides data collection, M&E, and digital tooling for development and humanitarian programs, with strong integrations in the open-source data ecosystem. It competes with Kinaki for the same development organization customers and supports similar project design and indicator workflows.
• SurveyCTO: SurveyCTO is a data collection platform for monitoring, evaluation, and research, widely used by development organizations and explicitly mentioned as a Kinaki integration partner. It is a direct data-pipeline peer in the same M&E software stack.

Broad incumbents

• Palladium: Palladium is a global implementation and consulting firm working across international development, including M&E, health, and governance, with both government donor and private sector contracts. It competes for the same donor-funded MEAL work as Salanga but at much larger scale and broader scope.
• Pact: Pact is a large international development NGO with deep M&E, capacity-building, and locally-led programming capabilities. It operates at significantly greater scale than Salanga, with similar donor relationships (USAID, DFID, etc.) and overlapping thematic areas (health, governance, livelihoods).

Emerging players

• 60 Decibels: 60 Decibels is a tech-enabled impact measurement company that conducts lean, phone-based surveys for investors, NGOs, and social enterprises. It overlaps with Salanga's M&E and stakeholder-feedback offerings but is more focused on impact investors and lean data, while Salanga is centered on humanitarian and development MEAL.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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