A public register links every house to the donor who paid for it
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The organisation's answer to the question every donor asks and few charities answer was a spreadsheet, filterable by donor name.
In May 2016 it published a register of which earthquake-affected household had received which transition home, and which donor had funded it. Donors were told to filter by their own name to find the family. The organisation posted the notice in Nepali and English on the same day.
The register was the digital counterpart of something physical. Each completed house carries a plaque by the door naming the donor who paid for it. The audit carried out a year later found that about five plaques were missing, and the organisation said so publicly.
The same post carried the standing appeal. Two hundred and fifty houses were still unfunded, and one house cost $450: up from the $335 of the previous summer, after a procurement manager and a site engineer were added and the design was revised.
