Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management on Feb 6th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru I interact with our patients briefly, in the context of a consultation by one of our clinical team members. For most of the patients with whom I consult, I will never know whether we had the right diagnosis or the right treatment. Without a clear mechanism for following up with our patients, I [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jan 27th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru We in the development, global health delivery, and social justice businesses seek to change current conditions that produce poverty, injustice, and ill-health. On the one hand, our vision is often ambitious and over-sized for our levels of experience both as practitioners and visitors in communities that can remain unfamiliar even after [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Social Justice and Health on Dec 18th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru As I wrote in a recent tumblr post, it was wonderful to walk again through the halls of Bayalpata and to witness its continued transformation into a dignified hospital. Over the course of ten months since my last trip, nearly every part of the hospital has been better organized and cleaned, [...]
Posted in News on Dec 10th, 2011
Dear friends and family, I am honored to share that last week Nyaya Health became part of the 1% of organizations examined by GiveWell to be distinguished as a standout organization. GiveWell, deemed “the gold standard for giving” by the Boston Globe, takes their evaluations seriously. In fact, only 6 of the 750 organizations examined this [...]
Posted in News on Dec 5th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Our Country Director and I had the honor of visiting Dhulikhel Hospital this week to meet with staff members and Administrative Director, Dr. Rajendra Koju. Dhulikhel is a not-for-profit, non-governmental hospital that offers affordable prices to its patients and manifests a singular vision of high quality and equitable care in rural Nepal, representing much of [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Nov 26th, 2011
The Management Center highlighted Nyaya Health and its core values in the recent edition of “The Management Fix.” Jerry Hauser , CEO of The Management Center, commends Nyaya’s core values of efficiency, results, and transparency, and references the introductory email sent to new Nyaya employees which features these values. The article is available here. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 19th, 2011
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Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide. This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 9th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas [The following is a letter from Country Director Gregory Karelas, which he sent over our open-access Nyaya member listserve about some recent events in Achham.] Dear Nyaya staff, volunteers and supporters, I wish to share with you a story of perseverance in the face of discord and uncertainty. On September 9th, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Sep 13th, 2011
Posted by Jason Andrews Nyaya Health is pleased to be a signatory of the NGO Code of Conduct for Health Systems Strengthening. This code was promulgated by several notable nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to guide organizations to “limit their harmful effects and maximize their contributions to strengthening public health systems.” Our team at Nyaya Health has [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Sep 8th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru I have recently written about the problems we have had in getting consistent, high-quality data from Achham. I will not re-hash here the logistical problems we have had in getting data, but suffice it to say that, despite being an organization populated by a solid number of very data-minded individuals, a [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Aug 21st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru In a speech recently on his government’s funding of the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunizations, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s delivered some welcome statements about the importance of transparency in global development aid [1]. Notably, all recipients of British foreign aid “must publish what they do, where they get their [...]
Posted in News on Jun 8th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz On April 1st, The Nick Simons Foundation generously donated $25,000 to Nyaya and offered an additional matching donation of $75,000 more – the total donation, if Nyaya was able to raise $75,000 ourselves, would equal $175,000! I write today to announce that with your support Nyaya has not only reached that [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 31st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Access to organizational documents are a key aspect of transparency. Overall, Nyaya has done a solid job documenting what we do so that our staff, leadership team, and volunteers are able to access the “institutional memory” needed to get work done. We’ve had a hodge-podge of a system in accomplishing this, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on May 22nd, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Much has been written and talked about with regards to the need for organizations, corporations, and governments to operate more transparently. The non-profit sector is particularly problematic, as the Global Accountability Report has made clear. Nyaya Health for our part has long held an organizational mandate of transparent operations. Operationalizing transparency [...]