For governments and SME agencies.
A standardised framework across regions and programmes. Defensible reporting that survives ministerial review.
What is broken today.
Government SME-development portfolios span dozens of programmes, often across ministries, agencies, and provinces, each measuring success differently. The result: reporting that cannot be aggregated, comparisons that are not defensible, and ministerial reviews that surface attendance numbers instead of business outcomes.
What changes when Mothusi is in place.
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One framework across programmes
Replace inconsistent metrics with the published MGS framework. Same maturity tiers, same evidence ladder, same risk signals, regardless of region, ministry, or implementing partner.
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Defensible ministerial reporting
Reporting that distinguishes self-reported claims from verified evidence. Every cohort metric carries an evidence-grade. Ministerial committees see what is real, what is in progress, and what is unverified.
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Programme-to-treasury alignment
Treasury and ministerial owners get the same business-level evidence that programme operators see. No reconciliation between operating data and reported impact.
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Multi-region, multi-language
Single platform across provinces, districts, and partner markets. Local evidence requirements adapt; the underlying framework does not.
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Public methodology
The MGS framework is published, versioned, and citable. Independent researchers, audit institutions, and reviewers can reference it without a paywall.
How it works on the ground.
A national SME agency runs 11 programmes across 9 provinces. Each programme captures activity into Mothusi against the same evidence schema. Every SME accumulates one growth record across every programme it touches.
When the minister asks how the portfolio is performing, the agency does not aggregate spreadsheets. It runs a single report against the live evidence layer: cohort movement across maturity tiers, evidence-grade by signal type, intervention-to-outcome attribution, and risk cluster trends across the portfolio.
Programme operators keep their existing workflows. The framework adjudicates them.
SME programmes have run for four decades without a shared measurement standard.
Workshops attended, certificates issued, funding disbursed, reports submitted. Too often none of this answered the only question that mattered: are the supported businesses measurably stronger? The MGS framework gives governments the operational standard that has been missing.
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