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Benoît Silve (Institut Bioforce)

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Benoît Silve has been C.E.O. of BIOFORCE since 2003. In that period and with a team growing to more than 50 full time staff, BIOFORCE has confirmed its position as the leading humanitarian learning organization in France. Since his joining of the organization Benoît Silve has striven to develop collaborative strategies to strengthen the humanitarian community through training, capacity building, and public awareness building actions. His strategy has been to open BIOFORCE to international aid learning initiatives; to expand in-country training; to adapt humanitarian logistics to the specifics of health in low income countries; and to create new tools for awareness building and community development.

With his team Benoît Silve’s main accomplishments have been:

  • Creation of Humanitarian Program Manager Masters programme with Liverpool University, and with other partners such as Sphere, HaP, People in Aid, Mango;
  • Creation of WASH Masters with the 2IE foundation in Burkina Faso;
  • Set up and implementation of DRSS Haiti programme with RedR, HaP, Sphere;
  • Development of Central and West Africa WASH cluster training with UNICEF;
  • Implementation of SCM training for Health Logisticians in Ouagadougou, in partnership with USAID/DELIVER.
  • Registration of 3 humanitarian specific professional certifications in Logistics, Administration, and Programme Management; upcoming certification on WASH Program Management and Health Logisticians;
  • Raising the participation of international students, mostly Africans, up to 30%;
  • Set up and implementation of a three year training programme for Tsunami victims in Sri Lanka; more than 1.000 people trained;
  • Partnership with WHO, UNICEF and West African health ministries for development of health logistics;
  • Development and implementation of a regional training programme for national staff in West Africa.

Born in 1958, married and father of 4 children, Benoît Silve completed a Naval Career before retiring as a Captain, with distinction, and joining Bioforce.

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