# Oporajita — Case Study

> A programme management dashboard for the Oporajita initiative — a Collective Impact programme in Bangladesh's garment sector where 15 partner organisations work toward shared goals but had no shared view of them.

Canonical page: https://portfolio-shafin580s-projects.vercel.app/projects/oporajita
Author: Shafin Ahmed, Full-Stack Software Engineer (https://portfolio-shafin580s-projects.vercel.app)
Client: The Asia Foundation
Timeline: 2025
Role: Frontend Engineer
Published: 2026-08-04 · Updated: 2026-08-04
Client write-up: https://arits.tech/our-work/oporajita-web-application

## Key takeaways
- Oporajita gives 15 partner organisations in Bangladesh's garment sector one standardised view of a programme they previously tracked in fifteen different spreadsheets.
- Standardising what partners submit makes cross-partner comparison a property of the system rather than a manual reconciliation step before every report.
- The Asia Foundation's Oporajita dashboard was delivered by ARITS Limited in an eight-week cycle running from UX design through deployment.

## Key figures
- 15 — partner organisations
- 8 — weeks, design to deployment
- 4 — core capabilities

## The problem
Every partner collected data differently, so no one could see the whole programme. Fifteen organisations meant fifteen spreadsheet conventions, fifteen reporting formats, and no way to answer a question about the initiative as a whole without a manual reconciliation pass. Donor reporting was slow and decisions rested on whichever partner's numbers happened to be at hand.

## The approach
A service-oriented dashboard that standardises what partners submit and then makes the aggregate legible. Submissions run through one schema, so cross-partner comparison is a property of the system rather than an act of cleanup. On top of that sits a report builder for donors and project teams, a collaboration tracker that surfaces where partners are already working together, and an archive that keeps every historical submission reviewable rather than overwritten.

## What it does
- Standardised dashboards giving every partner the same cross-programme view
- Report builder producing donor and project-team reports without manual collation
- Collaboration tracker surfacing joint activities across the 15 partner organisations
- Historical data archive — every submission stays reviewable rather than being overwritten
- Search-optimised analytics over document and relational stores with a caching layer

## Stack
Next.js, TypeScript, Service-Oriented Architecture, Elasticsearch, Docker, TanStack Query

## Outcome
- Partners now work from one shared system instead of scattered spreadsheets
- Achievements are monitored continuously rather than reconstructed at reporting time
- Decisions rest on data the whole network can see
- Delivered in an 8-week cycle from UX design through deployment

## Frequently asked questions
### What is the Oporajita web application?
It is a real-time data and collaboration dashboard built for The Asia Foundation's Oporajita initiative, used by 15 partner organisations working in Bangladesh's garment sector under a Collective Impact model. It standardises how partners submit data and gives the whole network one shared view of programme progress.

### What problem did Oporajita solve?
Every partner collected data differently, so nobody could see the whole programme. Fifteen organisations meant fifteen spreadsheet conventions and no way to answer a question about the initiative as a whole without a manual reconciliation pass. The dashboard replaced that with one schema every submission runs through.

### How long did Oporajita take to build?
An eight-week cycle, running from UX design through to deployment.

### What technology is Oporajita built on?
A service-oriented architecture with an API-driven backend and a modern web frontend, backed by document and relational data stores, search-optimised analytics, and a caching layer.

## Organisations named
- The Asia Foundation (Client) — https://asiafoundation.org/
- ARITS Limited (Employer) — https://arits.tech

## Sources
- Oporajita Web Application — case study — ARITS Limited — https://arits.tech/our-work/oporajita-web-application
- The Asia Foundation — The Asia Foundation — https://asiafoundation.org/

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