Illustrative: an Indicator Performance section and a Results/Outcomes section on the same report always show the identical target/actual figures — one resolver, two selectable views.
Reporting & Analytics
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A periodic programme report has to do two things at once that are easy to let drift apart: tell an honest narrative, and show numbers that reconcile exactly with the systems of record.
Step 1 · Learn
Understand the concept
A programme report typically mixes two genuinely different kinds of content: narrative the report's author writes (what happened, why, what is planned next) and figures that should be a direct, unedited reflection of the underlying monitoring data for the report's stated period and scope. The moment those figures are manually retyped or recalculated for the report rather than pulled from the system of record, small transcription drift becomes almost inevitable across a reporting cycle.
A report's scope — which project, which period, which organizational or partner boundary — has to be applied consistently to every figure in it. A report that quietly mixes a wider or narrower scope for different sections (the whole organization's budget next to one partner's results, say) misleads a reader who reasonably assumes the whole document describes the same thing.
How METRA GET supports this
A report is built from selectable sections: some are narrative (executive summary, lessons learned), others are data-driven and pull live from the project's own indicators, workplan, budget, reach and reporting-partner performance for the report's own scope and period.
Sections can be reordered, and that order is preserved from the draft editor through Preview, Print/PDF and Word export — one saved order, not three that can drift apart. A finalized report freezes a snapshot, so its figures never change even if the underlying data later does.
From concept to your own project
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