We ran this portal before we sold it.
EMPOBase comes from EMPO Training & Consultancy Services in Yangon. The first version ran inside a working Myanmar humanitarian NGO. This page is the story of how that became a product.
- EMPO
Training & consultancy — Yangon, 2025
- The original portal
Built inside one Myanmar NGO — still live today
- EMPOBase
The same portal, packaged as multi-tenant SaaS — 2026
EMPO Training & Consultancy Services.
EMPO trains humanitarian and development practitioners in Myanmar. Project Cycle Management. Core Humanitarian Standard. MEAL. Field-grade, not classroom-grade.
We work with country offices, national NGOs, faith-based networks and the staff of large INGOs who can't take a week off to fly to a workshop. We've trained cohorts in Yangon, Mandalay and at partner sites across Myanmar.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Yangon
- Curriculum
- PCM · CHS · MEAL
- Reach
- Myanmar
We built a humanitarian portal because we needed one.
The first version of this portal ran inside a Myanmar humanitarian NGO we were supporting. We needed somewhere their country team, partners and donors could see the same MEAL data without emailing spreadsheets at midnight.
We tried the open frameworks. They are good tools. But every one of them needed a quarter of work before a country office could actually use it — modelling the indicators, importing the staff, drawing the org chart, configuring leave calendars, building the dashboards. We ended up doing that work anyway, then doing it again for the next partner, then again for the one after that.
- Model the indicators
- Import the staff
- Draw the organogram
- Configure leave calendars
- Build the dashboards
So we packaged the quarter.
The setup work that used to swallow a country office's first three months now ships pre-loaded. This is the exact list.
Humanitarian indicators
Pre-loaded and sector-mapped. Nothing to model before week one.
Project DPro toolkit
The project-management toolkit humanitarian teams already train on, built in.
Governance tools
RACI, organogram, change-control and safeguarding — configured, not bolted on.
Field-reporting types
The six report types country teams actually file, from activities to incidents.
Multi-tenant by design
One deployment hosts many organisations, each behind its own walls.
Two languages today
English and Myanmar from day one; three more languages are next.
The original portal continues to operate as a single-tenant deployment for its client. EMPOBase is its commercial sibling, run by EMPO Training & Consultancy Services.
Still live, still single-tenant, still serving the NGO it was built for.
The commercial sibling — multi-tenant, run by EMPO Training & Consultancy Services.
Four rules we run on.
The same rules apply whether we're training a cohort in Mandalay or shipping a release.
Field-first
Features start as a request from a country office, not a roadmap workshop. If the field doesn't need it, we don't build it.
Honest fit
We'd rather tell you the portal isn't right for your office than onboard a bad fit. Walk-throughs use real data, never a slide deck.
Budget-line pricing
Humanitarian budgets are grant line items. Our pricing is public and flat, so it survives a donor audit.
Two languages from day one
Built in English and Myanmar together. Localisation is part of the product, not an afterthought.
Talk to the people who actually run this.
15 minutes, no slide deck. We'll show you the portal with real data and tell you honestly whether it fits your country office.