Portfolio Diagnostic for Organizations
Your portfolio says "leave no one behind" and "commits to equity." Does it?
Children and adults with disabilities represent up to 15% of the population your programmes aim to serve. Most organizations cannot show whether they are being reached — or excluded.
We give you a clear, evidence-based answer in 2–3 weeks.
2% of total philanthropic giving in the US addresses disability
<5% of organizations have implemented a strategy to promote disability inclusion
3–5 hrs is all we ask of your team. The rest is on us.
Need a faster starting point?
Start with the AI-generated MPA Tool for a rapid, structured inclusion diagnostic in minutes — or choose the full diagnostic engagement for deeper review and advisory support.
How We Work
Two ways to work with Main Path Advisory
Choose a rapid AI-generated review for immediate clarity, or a deeper advisory diagnostic for board-level decision-making and follow-through.
AI-generated MPA Tool for NGOs
See where children with disabilities may be missed in your program — and what to strengthen in the next 90 days.
Upload your concept note, proposal, logframe, budget, MEL framework, or progress report. In minutes, receive a structured diagnostic showing where children with disabilities may be unintentionally excluded, with priority actions to improve design, reach, and measurement.
Best for: proposal teams, programme managers, MEL leads, and mid-term reviews.
Free report; $800 with two advisory calls
Explore the NGO ToolAI-generated MPA Tool for Foundations
See where children with disabilities may be missed across your funding pipeline — and what to change in the next 90 days.
Upload grant and portfolio documents such as strategy papers, RFPs, proposals, logframes, progress reports, MEL frameworks, grant criteria, or budgets. In minutes, receive a structured diagnostic showing where inclusion risk sits and what your team can require, track, and strengthen.
Best for: foundations, donor teams, MEL managers, and proposal reviewers.
Free report; $1,000 with two advisory calls
Explore the Funder ToolFull Diagnostic Engagement
For organizations that need a facilitated document review, tailored scoring, leadership briefing, and a practical roadmap delivered with expert support over 2–3 weeks.
Best for: leadership teams, portfolio owners, and organizations preparing for strategic decisions, new funding cycles, or formal review.
Request a Diagnostic CallAbout
Anna Burlyaeva
Main Path Advisory LLC was founded by Anna Burlyaeva, a specialist with 15 years of senior experience at UNICEF and the UN system, working alongside governments, organizations, and the private sector across the globe — from Asia and Europe to Latin America, and beyond.
After engaging with portfolio after portfolio committed to equity but unable to show who was actually being reached, Anna built the diagnostic she wished had existed.
Diagnostics and other engagements are mostly conducted in partnership with consultants with disabilities.
Read the full storyThe Problem
Exclusion is typically unintentional
Most organizations working on children's rights, education, health, or protection are committed to equity. But commitment without a structured check creates three compounding risks.
Children with disabilities are often excluded not because programmes ignore them — but because design gaps, missing data, and the wrong partnerships quietly filter them out. The assumption that a programme is "for all children" is rarely tested.
Impact Risk
Your grants may not reach the children they're designed for.
If 10% of children in any given programme have a disability — and they are being systematically missed — your outcome data is incomplete and your impact claims are overstated.
Credibility & Reputational Risk
Stakeholders are starting to ask harder questions.
Peers, co-funders, and grantees increasingly expect disability to be addressed as a core equity issue, not a footnote.
Missed Value
The fix is often lower-cost than you expect.
Targeted changes to grant guidelines, MEL tools, and partner selection — not new programmes — are typically sufficient to close the gap. The diagnostic identifies exactly where to focus.
Portfolio clarity in 2–3 weeks
We run a document-based assessment of one programme, portfolio, or regional initiative — scoring it across six structured dimensions against CRPD- and SDG-aligned criteria.
The output is not a report for the shelf. It is a management tool: a heat map your board can read, a portfolio score report, three hard truths you can act on, a concrete 90-day action list and managers gap-to-action table along with checklists and PowerPoint.
What This Is Not
- compliance audit or legal review
- technical accessibility audit of buildings or IT
- name-and-shame exercise
- multi-month engagement before you see results
- parallel inclusion initiative added to your workload
Why External Review
Internal teams are committed — but embedded within the systems they review
This is not a reflection of capability. It's a structural reality. An independent assessment surfaces what internal proximity makes difficult to see.
Independent lens
External perspective unclouded by internal assumptions
Structured methodology
Synthesised from global disability-inclusive instruments
Lived experience-informed
Analysis shaped by disability expertise and perspective
Rapid turnaround
2–3 weeks, approximately 4 hours of your team's time
Start with the level of support you need
Choose a rapid AI-generated diagnostic in minutes, or a deeper review with expert guidance.
