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Akwasi Addae-Boahene

Chief Technical Adviser

With more than 19 years working experience with International Development Organizations, Mr. Akwasi Addae-Boahene is currently the Chief Technical Adviser at the the Ministry of Education's Secretariat for Education Policy, Institutional and Curriculum reform. Before taking up his current role at the Ministry, Mr. Addae-Boahene was the National Programme Manager of the DFID funded Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) in Ghana implemented by Cambridge Education. From 2013 to 2014, he was the Executive Director of Associates for Development Partnerships, and was the Country Director of World University Service of Canada (WUSC) in Ghana from 2004 to 2013. As Country Director for WUSC, he was responsible for a portfolio of education and community development projects implemented in Ghana, with funding from USAID, CIDA and others.

In addition, Mr. Addae-Boahene was the Chief of Party for the Ghana Education Decentralization Project (GEDP) funded by USAID and implemented by WUSC in collaboration with Ghana's Ministry of Education from 2010 to 2012, and also Project Director for the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai District Development Project.

He was briefly the Director for Field Operations for the SHAPE Project implemented by World Education based in Boston, USA and funded by USAID/Ghana in 2004, and also the Associate Director for Field Activities of the Community School Alliances (CSA) Project, a component of the USAID funded Quality Improvement in Primary Schools (QUIPS) Program in Ghana from 1998 to December 2003.

Jophus Anamuah-Mensah

Key Adviser-Curriculum Reform

Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, T-TEL’s key Adviser, Institutional Reform, is the Executive Chair of the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA), a programme that has produced free study units that are improving classroom practice across thirteen different countries. Prof. Anamuah-Mensah was the Director of School and Community Science and Technology Studies and now Director of the Institute for Educational Research and Innovation Studies at the University of Education, Winneba. He is the Chairman of Open Learning Exchange, an organisation dedicated to improving the quality of learning in Ghanaian schools through the use of technology and especially, the creation of an open digital education library accessible online and offline.

He was also the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and for nine years Prof. Anamuah-Mensah was the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of University of Education Winneba (UEW), the first university in Africa dedicated to teacher education.

Jonathan Fletcher

Key Adviser - Tutor Prof. Dev't

Professor Fletcher is T-TEL's key adviser for Tutor Professional Development and the Dean of the School of Education and Leadership at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is a specialist mathematics educator, teacher trainer and assessment consultant. He is a former head of the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE- Post Compulsory) Mathematics/Numeracy programme at the London University’s Institute of Education (UCL- IOE), a former head of the PGCE (Post Compulsory) programme of the University of Greenwich, a former head of the Department of Science and Mathematics Education, University of Cape Coast and a former Deputy Director of the Institute of Education also at the University of Cape Coast. His areas of interest include teacher professional development, teacher performance appraisal and assessment in education.

Sam Awuku

Key Adviser - Policy & Inst'nl Dev't

Samuel Awuku is an Independent International Management and Leadership Consultant who supports the T-TEL programme as the Key Adviser for the Policy and Institutional Development component. Samuel leads a group of ten College Improvement Advisers who are directly providing a cutting edge college improvement coaching and leadership professional development to all Ghanaian Colleges of Education senior leadership teams. As a Management Consultant and Mathematics Educator, Samuel has over two decades of experience across West Africa, East Africa, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom.

A graduate of the University of Cape Coast, The University of Reading, The University of Chichester, London South Bank University and Trinity College, Samuel is also a member of the Institute of Directors, UK, a Fellow of College of Teachers, England and a Chartered Mathematics Teacher, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, England. Samuel's areas of expertise are: Total Quality Management, Organizational Development, Inclusive Leadership, Digital Leadership, Policy Leadership, Educational Technology Policies and Mathematics as a Human Activity. According to Samuel, leadership is a process and requires a significant level of commonality capital.

Noshie Iddisah

Key Adviser - T-TEL Funds

Noshie Iddisah, key adviser, T-TEL Funds, is highly experienced in grants and project management with over fifteen years’ experience working on large scale development projects in Ghana. She has demonstrated expertise and understanding in budgeting, financial planning and financial reporting, managing of fiduciary risks, grant selection, referral and compliance management, and the establishment of procurement systems.

She was recently the Civil Society Support Unit Manager (Grants and Capacity Building) for the multi-donor funded civil society strengthening facility STAR-Ghana for over four years. Noshie was responsible for the overall disbursement and management of grants and fiduciary risks; management of the grant selection process, the grants cycle process and making recommendations for grant awards on the project. Noshie has in-depth knowledge and experience of DFID and the wider international development assistance system and understands the political dynamics in Ghana.

Noshie also worked for over eight years on the UK-DFID funded Forest Sector Development Project administering, managing and disbursing grants for the Government of Ghana aimed at institutional reform of the forest sector in Ghana.

Eric Ananga

Support - Curriculum Reform

Dr Ananga provides support to T-TEL's Curriculum Reform Programme.

Robin Todd

Team Leader

Robin is T-TEL’s Team Leader, responsible for ensuring that the T-TEL Team provides a high quality technical assistance service to the Chief Technical Adviser and the Government of Ghana. Robin is a public policy, education and international development professional with a wide range of skills and experience ranging from community-level programme implementation to national policy planning. Sixteen years of relevant experience includes eleven years’ working in education, social development and public service delivery positions in Africa and four and a half years’ developing and implementing policy on education and skills at senior levels within the British Government. From 2009 to 2010 Robin worked under Gordon Brown in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and has subsequently advised Ministries of Education in Tanzania, Uganda and Sierra Leone on applying the ‘delivery approach’ to improve education systems. Robin first came to Ghana from 2000 to 2002 where he worked as an English Teacher in a Senior High School in the Northern Region.

Richard McGowan

Project Principal

Richard McGowan is an experienced Project Principal who first joined Mott MacDonald as a graduate in 1990. He is a civil engineer by profession and has worked on a variety of infrastructure and training projects in the UK and overseas. He is based in Glasgow, Scotland but has previously worked in Bangladesh, where he was also country manager in 2004, and Afghanistan. The work in Bangladesh was helping to run a Training Centre for the Department of Roads & Highways. He also spent two years on a sabbatical from Mott MacDonald with Public Works Department, The Government of Montserrat, West Indies during the volcanic crisis, a posting organised through Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). During his time in Bangladesh he assisted the NGO ‘Concern’ in undertaking a ‘WATSAN’ assessment of the Rohingya Refugee Camp at Kutapolong in Bangladesh.

In between these overseas posts, Richard has been an engineer, Project Manager and Project Director/Principal on a numerous Mott MacDonald projects across the UK including large frameworks with key clients. He is an active member the Institution of Civil Engineers, Continuous Professional Development Panel, was previously chairperson of the Professional Development Panel and a committee member of the local Glasgow & West of Scotland branch including the education and training sub-committee. He is Mott MacDonald’s Training Manager for Scotland & Ireland Division, a registered Engineer for Disaster Relief (RedR) and a Chartered Engineer. He has worked remotely on two previous projects in Ghana in the Takoradi area as a technical advisor.

Isobel Wilson-Cleary

Key Adviser - Comms & Learning

At T-TEL, Isobel Wilson-Cleary designs and oversees the implementation of T-TEL's communications and learning strategy, working with staff to ensure communications helps to deliver programme objectives and maximise their impact, and to keep stakeholders regularly informed about programme activities.

Richard Tobin

Key Adviser - M&E/Research

Dr Tobin is T-TEL's Key Adviser for the Monitoring and Evaluation Component.

Bea Noble Rogers

Consultant, Curriculum Reform

Bea Noble Rogers is a consultant working on T-TEL's Curriculum Reform programme.

Roger Kwamina Aikins

Commercial Manager

Roger Kwamina Aikins is the Commercial Manager at the T-TEL National programme office, Accra.

Matilda Kudafa

Operations Manager

Matilda Kudafa is the Operations Manager at the T-TEL National programme office, Accra.

Isaac Temeng

Finance Manager

Isaac Temeng is T-TEL's Finance Manager

Quadry Aiyepe

Results Delivery Manager

Quadry Aiyepe is the Results Delivery Manager of T-TEL

Beryl Opong Agyei

National Teacher Education Coordinator

Beryl is T-TEL’s National Teacher Education Coordinator . She holds an MBA in Project Management, from Wisconsin International University College Ghana and a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies Education from the University of Cape Coast. Her career dates back to 2001 and has mainly been in donor funded education projects. She has worked in various capacities under different projects including the Community School Alliances (CSA) and the Education Quality for All (EQUALL), both USAID funded. She also worked with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), a Canadian funded project and Scope Global’s Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID).

Her main areas of specialization are Educational Training which includes capacity building training for teachers, community mobilization, volunteer and program management. Beryl is good at dealing with people; especially in explaining things and getting them to learn and understand issues.

Emma Fynn

Zonal Education Adviser

Emma Murumbe is an Education Adviser in the Western/Central Zonal. She holds a first degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and a Masters of Arts, Child Development from the University of Haifa, Israel.

Emma has experience in teaching as well as education research. She worked as Teaching Assistant during her National service at the Basic Education Department (UCC) and then taught at Awaso Academy International. She returned to UCC as a Senior Research Assistant in 2014. As part of T-TEL’s School Partnerships team Emma has supported the development of the Teaching Practice handbooks, and the orientation of College Principals, Directors of District Education, Circuit Supervisors, Girls’ Education Officers.

Emma has managed T-TEL’s training for TPCs, and played a pivotal role in developing and implementing the programmes’ contracts with Colleges of Education for cluster mentor training. Through this initiative, T-TEL provided resources to CoEs through which they trained 7000 Mentors on how to provide more effective teaching practice by using the learning resources provided.

Geoffrey Fumey

Zonal Education Adviser

Geoffrey Fummey is an Education Adviser in the Ashanti/Brong Ahafo Zone. He holds a Bachelor of Art in Social Sciences and a Post Graduate Diploma in Organizational Development from the University of Cape Coast. He has worked as a Program officer with the Community School Alliances (CSA) project, the Government Accountability Improves Trust (GAIT) II project, and the Education Quality for All (EQUALL) project. He also Supervised and Monitored projects such as Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE)-Oxford University, and Council for Technical Vocational Education and Training (COTVET)/Skills Development Fund (SDF) respectively. He has a unique combination of facilitation, training, monitoring and community engagements. His passion is to work with dedication, devotion and enthusiasm in order to impact his clients with his analytic background in development work.

Bernice Bangfu

Coordinator - Policy & Communications

Bernice Bangfu is the Policy and Communications Coordinator at the T-TEL National programme office, Accra.

Bernice is a trained Communications professional with past experience working with the media. She has a demonstrated history of working in the Mining and Business Consultancy Industries in various communications related capacities. She is skilled in running Nonprofit Organizations and has considerable experience working on donor funded projects/programmes as a Communications professional. Bernice holds a Masters degree in Communications studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Political science from the University of Ghana. She is intellectually agile, objective and has excellent judgement of situations.

Daniel Alimo

Zonal Team Leader

Daniel Alimo is T-TEL's team leader for the Ashanti/Brong Ahafo Zone

Abdul-Karim Kadiri

M & E Officer

Abdul-Karim Kadiri is T-TEL's Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. He is a bright, talented and self-motivated young man who has excellent organizational skills, is highly efficient and has a good eye for detail. Abdul has extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation, market, social and consumer research. He has a knack for analyzing problems and coming up with creative solutions as well as producing methodologies for effective data management. Above all he is a quick learner who can absorb new ideas and can communicate clearly and effectively.

Enock Gyan

Communications Officer

Enock Gyan is a trained journalist and a communication for development practitioner with a keen interest in using evidence to enhance messaging and external relations for communications to deliver maximum impact. For close to six (6) years he has been working with the media, policymakers and key opinion formers to influence and challenge political, social and economic agendas.

His ability to communicate clear, simple and active key messages and research ensures that communications help drive policy change, ultimately leading to better delivery of public services. He has a proven record of ensuring that important information travels where it needs to and that it is heard and understood effectively. Aside from his ability to create compelling communications and campaigns, that reach a broad range of stakeholders he has the skill to respond quickly and effectively in crisis situations, protect reputations and reinforce core values.

Dinah Adiko

Key Adviser- Gender and Inclusion

Marjorie Tackie

Gender Officer

Marjorie Tackie is T-TEL's Gender Officer.

Mabel Opoku Opong

Finance Officer

Mabel Opoku Opong is a Finance Officer at the T-TEL National Programme office in Accra

Daniel Zewu

Finance Assistant

Daniel Zewu is a Finance Assistant at the T-TEL National Programme office in Accra

Christiana Fordjour

Finance Assistant

Christiana Fordjour is a Finance Assistant at the T-TEL National Programme Office in Accra

Gideon Okai

Leadership Coordinator

Gideon Okai is a Leadership Coordinator at the T-TEL National Programme office in Accra

Frank Osei Debrah

Operations Assistant

Frank Osei Debrah is an Operations Assistant at the T-TEL National Programme office in Accra.

Felix Nartey

Office Assistant

Felix Nartey is an office assistant at the T-TEL National Programme Office in Accra.

John Doe

Office Assistant

John Doe is an office assistant at the T-TEL National Programme Office in Accra.

Fred Ntoso

Driver

Fred Ntoso is a driver at the T-TEL National Programme Office in Accra.

Isaac Asamoah

Driver

Isaac Asamoah is a driver in the Ashanti/Brong Ahafo Zone

Godfred Quaye

Driver

Godfred Quaye is a driver at the T-TEL National Programme Office in Accra.

Wilhemina Gyamfi

Zonal Team Leader

Wilhemina Gyamfi is T-TEL's Zonal Team Leader for the Eastern/Greater Accra Zone.

Miracule Gavor

Zonal Education Adviser

Miracule Gavor is a Zonal Education Adviser in the Eastern/Greater Accra Zone. He comes from various educational background and training ranging from Mathematics Education, SixSigma Quality Management, African American History, Educator Development, Education Technology and Learning Design. Miracule has worked with various organization both in Ghana and USA with 16 years of education industry experience.

His education saw him attend prestigious institutions like- University of Cape Coast, Yale University, Villanova University, and Roehampton University. Miracule has founded 3 education focus institutions in Ghana-NOVAN Education & Training, Vedic Math Ghana and more recently the Ghana Society of Education Technology. Miracule prior to joining TTEL, held the position of National Math Pilot Coordinator at USAID Partnership for Education: Learning. He was also the National Coordinator for Basic Schools Mathematics with the Ghana Mathematics Society of which he was a founding member. His areas of expertise are: Teacher In-service Training, Mathematics Education, Learning Design and Education Technology.

Mary Ackummey

Zonal Education Adviser

Mary Ackummey is an Education Adviser in the Eastern/Greater Accra Zone.

Daniel Amofa

Zonal Education Adviser

Daniel Amofa is an Education Adviser in the Ashanti/Brong Ahafo Zone.

Samuel Effa-Amponsah

Driver

Samuel Effa-Amponsah is the Driver for the Eastern/Greater Accra Zone.

Peter Chammik

Zonal Team Leader

Peter is the team leader for the Northern Zone of Ghana. He has considerable experience in the education sector, both public and private. He was a tutor at the Tamale College of Education from 1990 to 2000. Between 2000 and 2009, he worked with Catholic Relief Services where, as Senior Program Officer, he supervised USAID/UNICEF-funded programs in Education. From 2009 to 2012, he managed CRS’ Office in Wa, where he coordinated education and health programs implemented by a consortium of CRS, Care International, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and other partners. Prior to joining T-TEL in September, 2015, Peter worked at IBIS Ghana, (now OXFAM) as Education Management Specialist. Peter has great interest in advocacy, especially for increasing access to quality education for girls, minorities and other vulnerable populations in rural and deprived communities as well as environmental sustainability.