Gloria is a Senior Project Officer at Participatory Development Associates with over 4years experience both in quantitative and qualitative approaches in gender studies, population studies and social policy. She has been a Graduate Assistant (2015) as well as Teaching Assistant (2013) at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, KNUST. She also has good administrative skills and has worked as an Administrator and a Customer Relations Manager in a hospital and nursing institute respectively in the Western Region of Ghana.
Gloria has been an Associate of PDA from September 2015 working on project like the Ghana Adolescent and Reproductive Health study for Palladium in 2015 as well as on Assessment of a Mobile Application for helping health providers deliver better services to adolescents in the Brong Ahafo Region, 2016 and became a permanent staff at PDA in September 2018.
She is very skilful and experienced in the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data and holds BA (Hons) in Sociology and Social Work and MPhil in Sociology all from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Mohammed Zayan Imoro is a Senior Project Officer with PDA’s Advocacy and Communications Unit where he leads the child protection project and coordinates the activities of the unit. Since joining PDA in July 2018, he has been involved in a number of projects including the GAIN Nutrition Barrier Analysis conducted in cocoa growing communities, and the ongoing PDA/CMaC Public Sector Watch Initiative aimed at improving the service delivery and accountability of key state agencies.
Prior to joining PDA, Zayan engaged in research on governance reform, institutional change and anticorruption strategies in developing countries. He obtained his MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge where he focused on institutional change in sub-Saharan Africa and led a number of panel discussions including the Anti-corruption panel discussions at the 2018 Africa Together Conference at the Cambridge Union.
He is also keen on bottom-up development approaches that prioritize collective action and indigenous sustainability initiatives. His undergraduate degree in Sociology was obtained from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Akoto is a FINATRADE Scholar who holds a BSc Agricultural Science (First Class) and a Masters of Education (Higher Education Pedagogy), both from KNUST. His interest in education took full shape when he was a Teaching Assistant at KNUST. He has taught English language and Mathematics at both the basic and senior high school levels, on part-time and permanent basis. He is a literacy coach whose protégés have gone on to win recognitions at both regional and national levels. The most recent being a top 50 placement in the 2017 Citi FM Literacy Challenge.
He has attended a number of workshops on functional literacy. Over the past year, he has been involved in the Phonics-by-Phone (PhonicsGhana) programme - a programme that has improved the literacy proficiency amongst some 6000 learners in the Central and Western regions of Ghana.
She is interested in research especially with issues related to infant and child nutrition. She has worked with Grameen foundation as a nutrition content reviewer where she reviewed the factsheets for the M-nutrition project (GAIN) for Ghana and Nigeria in 2015.She is interested in research especially with issues related to infant and child nutrition. She has worked with Grameen foundation as a nutrition content reviewer where she reviewed the factsheets for the M-nutrition project (GAIN) for Ghana and Nigeria in 2015.
She also worked with IITA on a research on the consumption patterns of white cassava and the knowledge and perception of yellow flesh cassava and also a laboratory assessment of some yellow flesh cassava genotypes bred in Ghana for her MPhil and also worked on the Ghana micronutrient survey in 2017 as a team leader and also worked on a pilot collaborative study (university of Ghana and university of SUNY, Oneota (USA) on the implementation of the nutrition care process (NCP) model.Has a BSc in nutrition and food science and an Mphil in nutrition For her hobbies, she loves to read, bake and teach children creative arts.
Ernest is a project officer with the Research, Evaluation and Learning (REL) unit with experience in data collection, management and analysis. He is also experienced in survey design and management. Ernest is proficient in the use of statistical packages such as STATA, SPSS for data analysis and Open Data Kit (ODK) for survey design.
Ernest served as a Research Assistant on the Cities and Climate Change Project carried out by the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon in 2018 where he handled quantitative data analysis for the project’s district-level dissemination and data management for scientists on the project. In 2016, he was a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Economics University of Ghana, Legon. Ernest holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in economics all from the University of Ghana, Legon.
Lucy joined PDA as a project officer with the Research Evaluation and Learning unit in September 2019. Lucy holds an MPhil in Economics and a BA in Economics both from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
She served as a teaching and research assistant in the 2015/2016 academic year with the Department of Economics, KNUST. She is able to combine both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and is conversant with the use of STATA and SPSS, with expertise in data collection, cleaning and analysis.
Peter joined PDA as an intern in March 2018, and subsequently became a national service personnel, after a worthwhile period of internship. Prior to joining PDA, Peter worked with the Bureau of Market and Social Research (MSR) as a Research Associate, where he participated in a number of projects from MTN Ghana Ltd. Petrosol, Airtel-Tigo, Fan Milk Ghana, and OLAM, which helped him develop a great deal in research and advocacy.
Since he joined PDA, Peter has assisted in data collection and analysis for the Child Protection project, spearheaded by PDA. As a member of the Advocacy and Communication Unit, he is currently assisting a team from PDA working in conjunction with Citizen Movement against Corruption (CMaC Ghana), on “Public Sector Watch Initiative” funded by STAR Ghana. His interest spans social policy analysis and research in the development space.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work and Sociology from the University of Ghana.
Lorretta joined PDA in March 2018 as an intern, and is currently working as a national service person with the Communication and Advocacy Unit. She recently graduated from the University of Ghana, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social work and Sociology. As an enterprising social worker, Lorretta has excellent human relation skills which she seeks to apply while expanding her professional experience in research and policy analysis.
Before joining PDA, Lorretta interned as a Research Associate at Bureau of Market and social Research, where she assisted with a number of research projects for MTN Ghana, AirtelTigo, Olam and Fan milk Limited.
As a member of PDA’s Advocacy and Communications Unit, Lorretta provides research assistance for the child protection project which involves reporting and following up on child abuse cases documented in selected news outlets. She also provides research assistance for the Public Sector Watch Initiative with Citizen Movement against Corruption (CMaC).