Varsha Venugopal

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Any decisions we make, are they being rolled over?

What we are doing right now is rolling out a staff survey to get a better sense of feedback from all our colleagues to make sure that, you know, what are the top areas we should be thinking more about?

And we have some questions there on

Do you feel sufficiently valued?

Are you motivated when you wake up in the morning?

So at least to start giving us, they're all anonymized, but to give us some ideas on areas we need to focus more on.

In the past, health insurance was one where, you know, we hadn't thought of it.

And then we got that input and feedback from a couple of team members who were getting scared about COVID.

And then we were like, right, we need to roll something out.

In terms of systems and processes, I think we're still, it's not been our top priority intentionally from on the HR side, because we want to get our product right first and then invest further.

I think broadly our census, our team is satisfied and happy.

There's obviously a lot more we could do on that front in terms of systems.

Yes.

So because we are focused so much on hiring the right people, the idea is these program managers, for instance, can then develop their own teams and take the work to the next level.

There is the one-on-one calls they have with Fiona once a week.

to keep us updated and what the plans are.

But we are very much working towards this decentralization model where they can then be responsible for their own budgets, especially because they have a clearer sense of the context on the ground and the government asks, they have a clearer sense of how soon they can, for instance, hire the next few people and what the timelines are.

around them should be because we are still a fairly early stage startup while we have these ambitions for decentralization i think we still don't have those systems so for instance a lot of things still come through us in terms of for instance even budgets you know somebody can't just go ahead and hire it's it's still a decision made at our level but that is our aspiration

I think for anyone interested in global health and development, I would highly recommend the Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo's book, Poor Economics.