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NGO / INGO / Development Projects
Full Time
|Type: 4-month Fellowship to start in September 2022 with possibility of extension
Experience: Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience with data-focused research preferable
Division: Global Health and Rural Development (non-profit sector)
Positions Available: 1
This is a full-time, unpaid fellowship, with room and board and travel provided.
About Oda Foundation
Co-founded by a native of the village where we are based, Oda Foundation builds local leadership and supports health and education, for those who need it most. Since 2013, we have taken a long-term approach to building relationships, hiring a 95% local, Nepali team. Oda Foundation in located in Nepal’s Kalikot District, a remote patchwork of villages. Rigorous topography, impacts of Nepal’s civil war, and meagre economic opportunity make the Karnali Zone one of the most impoverished and forgotten regions in all of Nepal, said by UNICEF to be an area enduring a “Silent Emergency.” The mountainous region is accessible by only one road, with many villages like Oda only accessible via hours on foot. Our communities struggle with malnutrition and extreme poverty, and they have difficulty accessing professional health care and education. Gender and caste discrimination block women’s access to economic opportunity, education, and equal healthcare.
Since 2013, we have expanded our health services to a full hospital and clinic, including out-patient services, lab testing, emergency care, pharmacy, birthing and women’s health care, and public health initiatives. We have supported upwards of 80,000 patient visits, with more each day. Moving forward, our goal is to integrate our health system within the government to create a more sustainable health care infrastructure.
About the Menstrual Health Fellowship (responsibilities and requirements )
Oda Foundation's Menstrual Health Fellow will work almost exclusively on supporting our new holistic programme designed to reduce the harms of chhuapadi and poor menstrual hygiene management, commonly found within Kalikot. 72% of menstruating women and girls in our community continue to practice chhauapdi. The project aims to gather information about the causes and effects of chhauapdi and develop initiatives to be implemented once there is a detailed understanding of the community needs.
The fellow will be responsible for assisting the programme director with running training workshops, focus groups, gathering research data and translation of conversations. Additionally, the Menstrual Health Fellow will engage in conversations around healthcare and organization-wide policies, procedures, and initiatives, giving this role a great degree of exposure into Oda’s higher-level decision making process.
It is a strength of the Oda Foundation Fellowship program that Fellows understand the integrative nature of Oda’s work and their role within it. The Menstrual Health Fellow is strongly encouraged to pursue interests outside of healthcare that may align with ongoing Oda Foundation programming. In previous cohorts, Fellows have also supported social media management, media content generation, report and grant writing support, quarterly board meeting participation, strategic partnership generation, and more!
Responsibilities :
Required Qulaifications & Experience :
Desired Qualifiocation & Experience :
Additional, once-in-a-lifetime experiences that you will gain:
What previous fellows went on to achieve:
Care and Compassion
Respect, Dignity & Justice :
Effectiveness :
Teamwork & Communication
Honesty and Responsibility
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Apply Before: Aug 01, 2022
About the organization
The Oda Foundation, in tandem with local leaders, private partners and government support, develops integrative community development solutions for some of Nepal's most geographically isolated communities. Headquartered in the district of Kalikot, the foundation has concentrated healthcare and education initiatives while providing additional community needs as they are identified.
