Analyzing the Costs and Financial Sustainability of a Maternal Health Clinic in Burundi

Village Health Works (VHW) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization operating a health clinic and several community-based initiatives in rural Burundi. The organization is planning to build a $7.5 million Women’s Health Pavilion (WHP), a teaching hospital designed to provide maternal and newborn care, including emergency obstetric care and other services that are scarce and desperately needed in Burundi. The SIPA workshop team travelled to Burundi and worked with VHW staff both in New York and Burundi to collect and analyze operational and financial information on the cost of constructing, equipping and operating the maternal health facility and wrote and successfully submitted a $2 million USAID grant application for VHW.