Is this programme genuinely ready to be adopted?
A diagnostic for the question every adoption conversation should start with — and rarely does.
Share of appeal requirements funded
No endowment closes a gap this size. A pilot without a government exit is a sunset clause — adoption is the only multiplier left.
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For two decades, the development sector has invested in assessing whether NGOs are ready for government adoption. It has invested almost nothing — with the same rigor — in assessing whether government systems are ready to absorb what NGOs are offering. We have been diagnosing the wrong patient.
Adoption fails for two distinct structural reasons. The programme may be excellent but not designed for government delivery — depending on management intensity government cannot replicate. Or the system may be willing but the institutional foundations too shallow — political will resting on one or two officials whose departure creates a vacuum.
The G-ART Compass diagnostic tells you which one is operating — from three positions, with questions genuinely calibrated to each stakeholder's institutional vantage. The gap between perspectives is itself the most actionable diagnostic finding.
A signal, a diagnosis, an advisory.
G-ART Compass operates at three depths. The free signal above is calibrated to be useful on its own — and to make clear when a deeper engagement would be warranted.
Signal Self-Assessment
Eight questions, five minutes. Scorecard plus a 24-hour written interpretation from a Catalytic Corps practitioner.
Consultant-Administered Diagnostic
The full 35-question instrument administered by a Catalytic Corps practitioner. Multi-stakeholder, four to eight weeks. Produces a written report with pattern recognition and intervention sequencing.
Long-form Adoption Advisory
Sustained accompaniment through a multi-year adoption journey. Re-administered diagnostics, intervention design and sequencing, embedded advisory through critical milestones.
"Adoption is what survives the people who built it."
— G-ART Compass