Free tools
Free tools for NGO & development professionals
Practical, bilingual (English / မြန်မာ) tools you can use right now — no account needed. Run them online, print the result, or download it. Built by EMPO for Myanmar’s humanitarian and development sector.
Assessment
English Proficiency Assessment
Free adaptive CEFR placement test for the humanitarian & development sector — find your English level (A1–C1+) and the right class.
Open toolUsed 91 timesVARK Learning-Styles Assessment
Discover how you learn best — Visual, Aural, Read/Write, or Kinesthetic — and get practical tips to study and train more effectively.
Open toolUsed 51 timesOrganizational Capacity Assessment
Reflect on 30 everyday practices across six domains, individually or with your team.
Open toolUsed 11 timesWell-Being, Resilience & Growth Self-Check
One supportive check-in for humanitarian and development workers in Myanmar: how you are holding up, and how you are growing.
Open toolUsed 208 timesTrainer & Facilitator Scorecard
Honestly rate your training skills across five domains and get a clear plan to grow.
Open toolUsed 2 timesNGO Work-Style Personality Test
Discover your work style in a team — Driver, Connector, Analyst, or Supporter — and learn how to bring your strengths to NGO and humanitarian work in Myanmar.
Open toolUsed 3 timesCareer Pathfinder: Find Your Track in the NGO Sector
Discover which NGO/development career track fits how you think, work, and want to contribute.
Open toolUsed 4 times
Planning & Strategy
Theory of Change Builder
Map the full results chain — from the problem you're solving to the long-term impact — in one clear, donor-ready Theory of Change.
Open toolUsed 11 timesSWOT + PESTLE Analysis Canvas
Map your organisation's internal strengths and the external forces shaping your work — on one strategic canvas.
Open toolUsed 2 timesLeadership Canvas
Work through one team challenge. Make a plan to try.
Open toolUsed 3 timesFunding Strategy Canvas
Size your funding gap, map your donors by fit and likelihood, and leave with a 90-day plan — one canvas for Myanmar NGOs and CSOs.
Open toolUsed 2 timesLogframe & Indicator Builder
Write your logical framework the way a donor reads it — goal, outcomes, outputs, activities, then indicators with baselines, targets and means of verification.
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Quality & Compliance
Grant Proposal Quality-Assurance Checklist
Run a final QA pass on your grant proposal before it goes to the donor — catch the eligibility, budget, and compliance gaps that get bids rejected.
Open toolUsed 2 timesProject Kick-Off Checklist
Run a clean start-up so your project lands on solid ground from day one.
Open toolAccountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Self-Check
Check your programme against the IASC AAP commitments and CHS — information sharing, participation, complaints and feedback, PSEA links, and closing the loop with the communities you serve.
Open toolUsed 2 timesField Safety & Security Checklist for Staff Travelling to the Field
Run a full safety and security check before any field trip in Myanmar — risk assessment, communications, transport, medical, documents, security briefing, conflict-sensitivity, and contingency planning. Critical items are life-safety.
Open toolUsed 1 timesTraining & Workshop Readiness Checklist
Run a structured readiness check before your next training or workshop — confirm your objectives, participants, venue, materials, facilitation plan, accessibility, and follow-up are genuinely ready, not just assumed.
Open toolUsed 2 timesKoboToolbox Data-Collection Readiness Checklist
Run a full readiness check before your enumerators go to the field with KoboToolbox — catch the form bugs, consent gaps, offline-sync failures, and data-protection risks that ruin a survey round.
Open toolUsed 3 timesOrganizational Profile & Capacity Statement Checker
Check whether your NGO/CSO profile and capacity statement are complete and donor-ready — before a funder or due-diligence team asks for documents you do not have on hand.
Open toolUsed 4 timesDo No Harm & Conflict Sensitivity Self-Check
Test your programme against the Do No Harm framework — context analysis, dividers and connectors, targeting, resource transfers, staff conduct, and how fast you adapt when your work starts feeding tension.
Open toolProposal Budget Realism Checklist
Pressure-test your proposal budget before you submit it — unit costs, exchange-rate and inflation assumptions, staff allocation, indirect-cost caps, ineligible costs, cash flow and contingency.
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Interactive Session Tools
Digital Champions — Live Voting Game
Let a training room vote for its own digital champions — live, on their phones, in under five minutes.
Open toolUsed 7 timesLive Poll — Ask the Room
Ask one question and watch the whole room answer from their phones in seconds.
Open toolUsed 1 timesLive Quiz — Live Classroom Game
Timed multiple-choice questions on everyone's phone, with points for speed and a live leaderboard.
Open toolUsed 3 timesLive Word Cloud
Ask for one word each and watch the room's answer take shape on the screen.
Open toolQ&A Wall — Live Audience Questions
Collect questions from the room and let the group vote the best ones to the top.
Open toolUsed 2 timesRating Pulse — Live Feedback Scale
Take the room's temperature on a 1–5 or 1–10 scale in under a minute.
Open toolDot Voting — Prioritise Together
Give everyone a handful of dots and let the group decide what comes first.
Open toolSpin the Wheel — Random Name Picker for Trainers
Pick a person or an item at random on the big screen, fairly and in front of everyone.
Open toolUsed 2 timesTeam Scoreboard — Split a Training Room into Teams
Shuffle everyone into teams in one tap, then keep the score on the projector all day.
Open toolIcebreaker Bingo — Find Someone Who…
A "find someone who…" card on every phone that gets a silent room talking in ten minutes.
Open toolTwo Truths, One Lie — Live Icebreaker Game
Everyone writes three statements about themselves; the room votes on which one is the lie.
Open toolBrainstorm Board — Live Sticky Notes for Workshops
Everyone posts ideas from their phone; the trainer groups them into themes on the big screen.
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