Pushpak Newar Email & Phone Number

Vientiane, Laos

• Ensuring that the regional strategies are in line with the global strategies of Humanity & Inclusion including the global technical frameworks and standards for rehabilitation • Providing technical leadership, oversight, guidance and advice to country program teams for quality assurance of the health/ rehabilitation programs, ensuring all activities are of a high quality and respond to assessed needs • Ensuring excellence in project cycle management, support to the proposal development and strategic planning of the newly established regional programme• Supporting the health system strengthening approach in the region improved focus on rehabilitation governance, rehabilitation financing, rehabilitation workforce, improved service delivery/access to services and strengthening of rehabilitation information system in collaboration with local authorities, project donors and key stakeholders in the region.

Jordan

• Implemented the physical and functional rehabilitation program through a multi-hub system using the cross-border mechanism to ensure access to physical rehabilitation for the Syrian population; • Harmonized physical and functional rehabilitation strategies, competencies, approaches and systems including the data management system across four different and diverse geographical locations with remote implementation• Developed the early recovery strategy for multidisciplinary rehabilitation services, through integration into the health system, to build resilient and sustainable physical and functional rehabilitation services in Syria• Implemented HI’s physical and functional rehabilitation policy principles, benchmarks, and modalities • Advocated for the need for coverage of the unmet needs for rehabilitation in Syria through a systematic review of need assessments, data collation, and generation of evidence through ongoing programming.• Explored partnership opportunities with health-related local, and international organizations and UN organizations in Syria to ensure equitable access to rehabilitation services to the most vulnerable population.

New Delhi Area, India

• Direct technical support in the field of emergency rehabilitation programs in Iraq, Turkey, Somaliland, Uganda, South Sudan, Nepal and Bangladesh.• Launch of emergency rehabilitation services for people affected by drought in Somaliland and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh.• Built networks through external representation with other relevant actors and donors, to ensure relevance and effectiveness of the emergency response.• Ensured capitalization through development of technical guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the missions• Designed technical tools, training, leaflets and other relevant documents and disseminated them for use within program activities• Ensured the quality of services delivered through the supported country program.

Iraq

• Launch of emergency rehabilitation response to the Mosul liberation in November 2016 including setting up rehabilitation services at the frontline and IDP camps.• Ensured systematic inclusion of physical rehabilitation in any trauma response through the trauma-disability working group under the health cluster • Ensured the highest technical relevance of the rehabilitation component of emergency intervention of Handicap International in Iraq• Strengthened the development program, with a specific focus on the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) component, in Northern Iraq.• Built networks through external representation with other relevant actors and donors, to ensure the relevance and effectiveness of the humanitarian response during the chronic crisis situation in Iraq

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Strengthened the rehabilitation sector through the integration of rehabilitation and assistive technology into the sphere of the health system in Nepal• Established systems and mechanisms to ensure the sustainability of services through the development of a cost calculation system for rehabilitation services (prosthetics-orthotics and physiotherapy) and systematic procurement of Assistive Technology (AT)• Defined of the Country's Strategic Framework and defined directions of future strategy for the rehabilitation sector within HI Nepal.• Strengthened the multidisciplinary professions like prosthetics and orthotics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, through the development of their respective associations and building their networks• Contributed to the development and implementation of the Rehabilitation Management System (RMS) for the HI program in Nepal and Laos. •Strengthening institutional capacities of five different partner organizations (NGO, Government, private hospital) to efficiently implement health and rehabilitation activities. • Facilitated the establishment of an M&E system, impact-based measurement indicators and a functional database system for implementing partners. • Ensured access to immediate and long-term functional rehabilitation services to the people injured in the 2015 Nepal earthquake through the integration of rehabilitation in emergency response and as well as integration of rehabilitation services at district hospitals of the most affected districts of Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Developed protocols and clinical guidelines on mobile rehabilitation camp management; referral for corrective and reconstructive surgeries, access to wheelchair service and prevention of physical disabilities • Mentored and built an inclusive professional development system for the clinical team including community disability workers and prosthetic and orthotic staff. • Established a quality assurance system for measurement of the impact of the project through the practice of client-centred goal setting.• Established self-assessment of indicators related to service provisions, periodic scoring and reviewing and leading towards improvement for the indicators scored as weak and critical. • Facilitated the conceptualization, development and implementation of a comprehensive database system in Microsoft Excel, moving away from the paper-based data collection system across eight rehabilitation centres and satellite units in Nepal.

Sarlahi, Nepal

• Introduced and facilitated a holistic functional rehabilitation approach, ensuring proper integration of occupational therapy along with the prosthetics & orthotics, and physiotherapy services within the project components.• Strengthened the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) project through the addition of occupational therapy services in the home-based intervention • Ensured procurements of necessary OT service / CBR rehabilitation-related equipment & and materials in accordance and adaptation to the context and in a cost-efficient way. • In coordination with partners, developed appropriate provision of de-localized services (including patients’ identification and referral, socio-economic support etc.) to maximize access to services for persons with disabilities/injuries• Analyzed and evaluated the impact of the introduction of Occupational Therapy services within the rehabilitation project of Handicap International Nepal.

Master'S Degree, Public Policy Analysis

Short Course, International Public Health/International Health

Pgd, Health Science

Bachelors Of Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation And Therapeutic Professions