Hanna Kovaleva

Hanna Kovalova is a program manager with 15 years of experience managing humanitarian aid and development programs in Ukraine, with a recent focus on the eastern part of the country ravaged by the war with Russia. She has worked with international organizations, including the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the United Nations, as well as social enterprises. Kovalova’s work with vulnerable populations has centered around gender equality, non-discrimination, conflict sensitivity, and social inclusion. She has extensive experience with monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning approaches; program management; and communication strategies in public health, mental health, and community stabilisation.

As a project design and delivery lead for the FCDO’s £3 million Good Governance Fund Technical Assistance Facility Eastern Partnership in Ukraine, Kovalova oversees the project’s performance and leads a team of three team members that contributes to Ukraine’s war recovery efforts, risk planning, and conflict sensitivity. Kovalova bears final responsibility for the deliverables of six projects for various reform owners: the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Ministry of Economy, and Ministry of Restoration. She also oversees cooperation with several delivery partners, including Ukrainian think tanks and technical experts.

Before coming to Abt, Kovalova worked for Sayara International in Eastern Europe as a program coordinator for an FCDO project that included research, social and behavior change communications, and approaches to countering disinformation. At the UN’s International Organization for Migration, she served as a community stabilisation project specialist in post-conflict areas, leading a staffg of 14. She managed budgets, reported on funds allocation, developed training, and collaborated with government and non-government counterparts. She ensured all projects complied with principles of gender equality, human rights, conflict sensitivity, empowerment, accountability, and “do no harm” approaches. Kovalova was also a project officer at the International Charitable Foundation “Alliance for Public Health,” where she oversaw Hepatitis C treatment activities.

Expertise

• Community stabilisation
• Conflict sensitivity
• Gender equality and social inclusion
• Program design and direction
• Monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL)

Key Projects

• Good Governance Fund Technical Assistance Facility Eastern Partnership (GGF TAF EP)
• Countering Misinformation and Media Development: MERL project
• Engage, Connect, Empower: Catalysing Youth Participation to Promote Cohesive and Resilient Communities
• Enhancing Successful Reintegration of Veterans from the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and their Family Members

Publications

• Yeromina GI (maiden name), Barnard TP, Burgay OS, Filippovych SA. High Rates of Sustained Virological Response in People Who Inject Drugs Treated With Sofosbuvir-Based Regimens in Ukraine. International Network on Hepatitis and Health in Substance Users. 2016.
• Sergiy Filippovych, Ganna Yeromina, Olga Burgay, Tetyana Barnard. Results of Phase I HCV Treatment Programme in MARPs in Ukraine Journal of Virus Eradication. May 2016.
• Filippovych SA et al. Real-setting treatment data in people who inject drugs treated with sofosbuvir-based regimens in Ukraine (for American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Boston, MA, November 11, 2016 - November 15, 2016).