Ongoing

since Dec 2004

Ibis  Ghana

Formative Monitoring and Evaluation

PDA provided a staff for a four-person monitoring and evaluation team which met annually to review and support the work of Ibis’ Organisation Capacity Building programme.

On going

since May

2004

 MLGRD & (CIDA)

Community Driven Initiatives for Food Security (CIFS)

PDA provides the Capacity Development Specialist on this 6-year bilateral programme funded by CIDA and implemented through the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. The overall goal of CIFS is to contribute to increased food security in northern Ghana through an approach that is environmentally, economically and socially sustainable.  The purpose is to demonstrate that community-driven initiatives, implemented within the existing framework for district planning, are an effective and sustainable way of increasing food security in northern Ghana.  The project covers 10 districts in the eastern corridor of the Northern Region and employs capacity building as a key strategy for implementation in a manner that enables learning across districts and ensures that lessons and experiences from one district inform the way activities are implemented in other districts. 

May to

June

2004

Ibis/Rural Media

Network (RUMNET)

Partnership Evaluation

Team leader of an end of contract partnership evaluation using participatory methods. Involved interviewing stakeholders, facilitating focus group discussions and separate meetings with staff as well as debriefing with partners and Board.

2000 –

2003

Save the Children

(Ghana

Country

Programme)

Consultant to Save the Children (Ghana Country Programme). Assisting the development of the Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights by facilitating concept paper, stakeholder consultation, and group discussion processes.

2001 –

On-going

Ghana Network

for

Participatory

Development

(gNETPAD)

Network Formation and support

Initiated the formation of gNETPAD in September 2001 and currently hosting the secretariat.

Open Space Technology

Organised a series of five national events to mark the inauguration of the network, including a video and publication to share the ideas and themes that emanated from them. The events included a GTV interview with Robert Chambers and two gNETPAD members; three open space discussions on ‘Participation and Local Government’, formal inauguration of the Network by the Northern Regional Minister at the time, Mr. Ernest Debrah; and a round table meeting with donor and INGOs to share the findings of the open space discussions.