http://blog.nyayahealth.org Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/06/follow_up_follow_through/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/06/follow_up_follow_through/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:00:38 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4157 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/06/follow_up_follow_through/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/27/theoryofchange/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/27/theoryofchange/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:28 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3954 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/27/theoryofchange/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/18/transformationschallenges/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/18/transformationschallenges/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:00:43 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3966 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/18/transformationschallenges/feed/ 0 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, [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/10/nyayahealth1/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/10/nyayahealth1/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:00:28 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4015 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/10/nyayahealth1/feed/ 1 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/05/with-gratitude-to-dhulikhel-hospital/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/05/with-gratitude-to-dhulikhel-hospital/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:00:39 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3916 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/05/with-gratitude-to-dhulikhel-hospital/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/26/mgmtfixcorevaluesnyaya/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/26/mgmtfixcorevaluesnyaya/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:00:58 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3889 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/26/mgmtfixcorevaluesnyaya/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/19/picofwk22/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/19/picofwk22/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:00:10 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3692 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/19/picofwk22/feed/ 0 Posted by Jesse Brady ————-   Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/16/pih-pmg/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/16/pih-pmg/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:00:21 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3707 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/16/pih-pmg/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/09/roadtohealing/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/09/roadtohealing/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:00:39 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3712 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/09/roadtohealing/feed/ 1 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, [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/09/13/ngocodeofconduct/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/09/13/ngocodeofconduct/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:00:06 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3467 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/09/13/ngocodeofconduct/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/09/08/transparencyseries5/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/09/08/transparencyseries5/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:00:14 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3452 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/09/08/transparencyseries5/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/21/transparencyseries4/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/21/transparencyseries4/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:00:53 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3386 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/21/transparencyseries4/feed/ 1 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/06/08/nsimatchinggrantfinal/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/06/08/nsimatchinggrantfinal/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:00:28 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3178 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/06/08/nsimatchinggrantfinal/feed/ 2 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/31/transparencyseries2/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/31/transparencyseries2/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 04:00:12 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3109 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/31/transparencyseries2/feed/ 0 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, [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/22/transparencyseries1/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/22/transparencyseries1/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3091 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/22/transparencyseries1/feed/ 0 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 [...]