05 — Govern
Data Governance Consulting & Metadata Management
Make organisational data understandable, accountable, discoverable, and easier to manage through clear ownership, definitions, metadata, and governance practices.
Governance answers a different question from quality: what does this data mean, who owns it, where did it come from, and how should it be managed? Fafanua helps organisations in Uganda and East Africa put practical data governance in place, with business glossaries, clear ownership, metadata catalogues, lineage and access policies sized to how the organisation actually works, rather than a framework that lives only in a policy document.
Problems this service solves
- Teams use the same terms to mean different things.
- No one is clearly accountable for key datasets or their definitions.
- Analysts cannot find existing data, or do not know whether to trust it.
- It is hard to trace where a reported figure came from.
- Sensitive and personal data is not consistently classified or protected.
What Fafanua delivers
Business glossary and definitions
Agreed definitions for key terms and metrics, linked to the data that implements them.
Data ownership and stewardship
Owners and stewards for each business domain, with workflows for changes and issues.
Data catalogue and lineage
A searchable catalogue of datasets, with lineage from source system to report.
Classification and access policies
Sensitive-data classification and access rules that support your data-protection obligations.
Dataset certification and master data
A visible mark for datasets that are documented, owned and quality-checked, and standardised master data behind them.
Typical engagements
- Business glossaries
- Data ownership and business-domain definition
- Metadata-catalogue implementation
- Data lineage
- Sensitive-data classification and access policies
- Dataset certification
- Documentation standards
- Stewardship workflows
- Governance operating models
- Master-data standardisation
Business outcomes
- A shared language for the organisation’s key measures.
- Clear accountability for data and its definitions.
- Datasets that are easier to find, understand and trust.
- Evidence of where reported figures come from.
Where it fits in the Fafanua lifecycle
Govern is the fifth stage of the lifecycle. It documents, and assigns owners to, what Design, Connect, Model and Trust have built, and gives business intelligence certified datasets to present, so the trusted data foundation stays understandable as it grows.
- DesignData Strategy & Platform Architecture
- ConnectData Engineering & Integration
- ModelData Warehousing & Analytics Modelling
- TrustData Quality & Reliability
- GovernData Governance & Metadata
- DecideBusiness Intelligence & Analytics
- OperateManaged Data & Analytics Services
Relevant sectors
- Public Sector Data & Analytics
Service turnaround, Revenue and budget, Statutory reporting
- Health Data & Analytics Solutions
Branch comparability, Billing and claims, Pharmacy stock
- Financial Services Data & Analytics
Payments, Reconciliation, Regulatory reporting
- Development & Impact Data Systems
Beneficiaries, Outcomes, Surveys, Donor reporting
Let’s build a data foundation your organisation can trust.
Which number do you trust least? Tell us about the reports and figures your organisation relies on.