Health IT
Financial Transparency for Global Health Delivery
Our organization (nyayahealth.org) is experimenting with a public-access wiki to provide our line-by-line budget that is accessible to all. The public can view both aggregate and line-by-line data updated monthly on our wiki. We do this as follows. Our Nepal team exports data from our accounting database (Quickbooks) and sends it over to our data management volunteers in the US. The US team then posts them into templated online spreadsheets. These go onto our wiki:
http://wiki.nyayahealth.org/Budget
Please provide comments on its utility, criticisms, links to similar examples of this, and ways to improve. We are especially interested in how these data can be most useful to other organizations in similar settings.
Blog entry on the subject:
http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2008/12/17/budget/
Relevant section on that post:
There are three main reasons why we are doing this. The first is that we fundamentally believe that our supporters deserve to know where we are spending our money. They can both better understand the context of their giving and also provide us with feedback and insight. The second is that we hope that our colleagues working in similar situations throughout the globe can benefit from having timely raw data to help guide their work. Finally, it makes management sense. Our board of directors is all-volunteer. While we aim to have 2-3 board members on site at all times, our leadership when they are outside of Nepal want to stay updated. Having our data on our wiki in a straightforward format and open access for all is simply the most efficient way of collaborating.
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