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Facilitation and Moderation of Workshops

Date Dec 2007 May 2007 August 2006	Client/Partner Mars Free Voice Right to Play	Brief Description Orientation Workshop PDA facilitated a one week orientation workshop for Partners of Mars. The workshop helped expose participants to the principles and values of Mars and the approached it will use in implemeting its integrated development program in some selected cocoa communities in Wassa Amenfi West and Assin North Districts Ghana Community Radios PDA facilitated a workshop which was organsied by Ghana Community Radio Network (GCRN) for on-air community radios to review the findings of an inventory conducted by PDA on communty radios in Ghana Strategic Planning Workshop Facilitation of strategic Planning workshop for the Africa 1 Regional Office. The workshop brought together six countries in which RTP is working and whicfh form the Africa 1 Region.
July 2006 & 2007 March 2005	RAVI ODI, UK	RAVI Learn and Share Festival On two different occasions, facilitated a three-day festival of RAVI grant partners (approximately 200 participants) to share their experiences and to learn from each other. In 2006, this was done using Open Space Technology. Workshop on Use of Evidence to Influence Policy Coordinated Regional Workshop and national seminar in Ghana and coordinated national seminar in Nigeria working with Development in Nigeria. The workshop brought together civil society organisations to introduce the ODI ‘Civil Society Partnership Programme’ and to investigate how civil society uses evidence to influence policy.
July 2004	Ibis/gNETPAD	World Café One of the main facilitators in a World Café on: “The role of Civil Society Organisations in Election 2004”
October 2004	CARE International Agric and Natural Resources (ANR) Programme	Facilitated a workshop for the CARE ANR programme on Constructive Organisational Relationships, and pathways to developing, managing and monitoring sustainable, mutually beneficial organisational relationships.
August 2004	Ghana Community Radio Network	Community Radio Stations Working with two community radio stations (members of GCRN) to develop their facilitation skills towards facilitating greater community participation in natural resource management
March 2004	CARE International	National Workshop on Bushfire Policy Facilitated the third tier (1 day) of a three tier (5 days) National Workshop on Bushfire Policy, which brought participants from four pilot communities, Government departments and agencies, research institutions and NGOs (Care International & UDS) and policy makers together for policy dialogue.
March 2004	EU	Co-moderation of two, one-day stakeholder consultation workshops in Kumasi and Accra to generate responses to the EU country strategy.
February 2004	CARE International	Moderation of a two-day bushfire management workshop for stakeholders.
Feb/March 2004	British Council	Facilitation of two workshops for the southern and middle zones of Ghana to introduce the DFID Funded Global School Partnerships Programme to prospective participants.
Aug 2003	Ghana Community Broadcasting Network	Facilitation of an Anglophone West Africa Sub-Regional conference on identifying strategies to win recognition from governments in the sub region of the importance of community radio and the need to provide the enabling legislative and regulatory framework for it to operate efficiently as the third sector of radio.
May 2003	CARE International	Moderation of a Design and Partnership workshop for the Western and Ashanti STI / HIV / AIDS Project
Mar 2003	DFID/Ghana AIDS Commission	Moderation of a retreat for national level stakeholders involved in the HIV/AIDS District Response Initiative
Mar 2003	CARE International	Facilitation of a strategic planning workshop for the CARE Agricultural and Natural Resources Programme
Oct 2002	AIDS ALERT & Ghana AIDS Commission	Facilitation of a workshop on: 'De-stigmatising HIV/AIDS - Towards the Creation of an Enabling Society for People Living with HIV/AIDS'
June 2002	CARE International	Facilitation of CBO Capacity Assessment Methodology Design for Wenchi District Stakeholders
2002	VSO	Facilitation of a strategic planning workshop with the staff of the Special Education Unit of the Ministry of Education
Jun 2002	Danida HSSO	Facilitation of an inter-ministerial workshop for the development of a multi-sectoral strategy for the provision of comprehensive, sustainable and integrated services to the people living on the islands of the Volta Lake.
Feb 2002	British Council	Facilitation of a review workshop for participants in the School Linking Programme in Ghana.
Dec 2001	Min. Econ Planning and Regional Cooperation/GTZ	Facilitation of a workshop to develop a proposal for the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy
April 2001	MOH/DFID/Save the Children UK	Facilitation of a national stakeholders' workshop on participation and financing of civil society organisations in health