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Olivier Onvlee

Department
Health Systems Strengthening
Title
Advisor
Phone
+31205688535

Olivier Onvlee, MSc, is an advisor Health Systems and Human Resources for Health (HRH), with a research focus on strengthening health workforce governance and planning in fragile and conflict affected settings.

His experience includes conducting a health workforce mapping and political economy analysis on workforce data governance in Northwest Syria; supporting workforce strategy development processes in Greece and Congo Brazzaville; designing and implementing an evidence based workforce planning intervention in Niger; implementation research on the political economy of scaling-up health interventions in Uganda, Malawi and Ghana; and evaluation of local governance programmes in Uganda and Somaliland.

Olivier is a member KIT’s Centre for Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings, as well as coordinator for the ‘Analysing Disrupted Health Systems’ course.

Olivier holds a MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Projects

  • Strategic initiative for health workforce planning 

    • Institute
    • Project

    KIT Institute designs and implements a technical assistance approach to strengthen health workforce planning and ensure the right health workers are in the right place. Evidence-informed decision-making There is a shortage of health workers in many low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). The workers that are available are often not well distributed – with a concentration of […]

    Read more : Strategic initiative for health workforce planning 

  • Cash and Voucher Assistance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings and Fragile States

    • Institute
    • Project

    Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) refers to programs where cash or vouchers, exchangeable for goods or services, are directly provided to community members. CVA can help improve access to and the utilisation of health services, by reducing direct and indirect financial barriers and incentivising the use of free preventive services. There is also a growing […]

    Read more : Cash and Voucher Assistance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings and Fragile States

  • IDEAL – Inclusive Decisions at Local Level

    • Institute
    • Project

    In fragile states, there is often a significant gap between what the state can deliver and what the citizens need or expect. The participation of citizens contributes to inclusive decision-making. It improves local governance and the delivery of basic services, makes local governance more sustainable and increases welfare and stability. The Inclusive Decisions At Local […]

    Read more : IDEAL – Inclusive Decisions at Local Level

Publications

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