[kictanet] Fwd: Funded D.Phil opportunity on healthcare and devolution in Keny

[Warigia Bowman]

Dear All,

Please see the following opportunity for doctoral research on the impact of
devolution on healthcare in Kenya below. Please circulate to anyone who
might be interested.

Thanks
Nic


*Global Health Priorities: The implementation and impact on health service
delivery of rapid devolution within the Kenyan health system*
Project Overview

Devolution from highly centralised health care systems to sub-nationally
managed service delivery arrangements under local government control is a
health system model being adopted by a number of low-income countries. In
principle devolving both power and responsibility to policy makers and
managers who might be more accountable to local populations may improve
local priority setting, health service quality and health system
responsiveness. However, there are significant challenges in managing this
process, in creating the right policy frameworks to enable it and in
monitoring health system effects in the interests of improving overall
service delivery and equity.

Kenya has embarked on a rapid process of devolution to 47 new
administrative units (counties). These county administrations will assume
responsibility for health service delivery spanning prevention and
promotion to provision of secondary and even tertiary care. Taking
advantage of long term partnerships that exist in Kenya where a large team
of researchers examines health service delivery, financing and governance,
an opportunity exists to examine the implementation and impact on health
service delivery of the rapid devolution within Kenya’s health system.
Complementing these health system insights there will be an opportunity to
draw on the strengths of Oxford’s African Studies Centre where researchers
have considerable expertise in the field of comparative politics with a
focus on Sub-Saharan Africa (including Kenya) and the processes of
democratization. Methodological approaches could span policy analysis and
examination of how policy in action is shaped by key contextual factors and
actors. Alternatively organisational or management research approaches
could be used to examine devolution from the perspective of key service
providers expected to maintain or improve services as policy is enacted.
Training Opportunities

Time will be spent exploring political and organisational theories and
frameworks and understanding the political and policy implementation
process in Kenya that will help support empiric work on the impact of
devolution within Kenya’s health system. It is expected that additional
collaborative links with research teams in Kenya and South Africa will
inform the development of this work. The candidate will likely spend at
least 12 months working with research teams in Kenya to collect primary
data.
Funding1) NDM Doctoral Prize Studentships

The NDM Doctoral Prize
Studentships<http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/ndm-prize-studentships>are
fully-funded 4 year awards that are open to outstanding students of
*any nationality* without restriction. This is our flagship programme and
it is advertised each autumn for students who want to start the following
October. *The closing date for applications is 10 January 2014*. Interviews
will take place on 29 and 30 January 2014.
2) Other funded programmes

It is also possible to become a DPhil student in the department through
admittance via other funded
programmes<http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/other-funded-programmes>,
including the CSC-NDM studentships<http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/csc-ndm-studentships>
.
3) Direct Applications

Exceptionally, students can also approach individual supervisors directly
at other times during the year. If you are not applying for a funded
programme, you will need to have funds for the University
fees<http://www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/fees/information/universityrates/>and
your living costs. The selection criteria remain the same as for
funded
programmes. More information is available on our Direct
Applications<http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/direct-applications>page.

*Supervisors include*
Prof Mike English<http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/principal-investigators/researcher/mike-english>Tropical
MedicineOxford
UniversityDr Catherine (Sassy)
Molyneux<http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/principal-investigators/researcher/catherine-sassy-molyneux>
Tropical
MedicineOxford UniversityDr Nic CheesemanAfrican Studies CentreUniversity
of OxfordProf Winnie YipBlavatnik School of Public Policy Oxford University
For more information see:
 http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/doctoral-projects/project/
global-health-priorities-the-implementation-and-impact-on-
health-service-delivery-of-rapid-devolution-within-the-kenyan-health-system




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Dr. Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor
Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
wbowman at clintonschool.uasys.edu
http://digitaldemocracykenya.blogspot.com<http://democratizingegypt.blogspot.com>
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View my research on my SSRN Author page:
http://ssrn.com/author=1479660
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-- 
Dr. Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor
Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
wbowman at clintonschool.uasys.edu
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View my research on my SSRN Author page:
http://ssrn.com/author=1479660
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