Areas of work
We have worked in a wide range of areas in development including:
- Research, Evaluation and Learning (REL)
- Longitudinal Learning & Impact Partnerships
- Local economic development – education, healthcare, agriculture and decentralization
- Financial Inclusion (VSLAs and Cooperatives)
- Women, Youth and Economic Opportunities
- Policy analysis and advocacy
- Poverty and social assessments
- Child and Social Protection
- Reproductive health
- Gender and development
- Strategic planning
About our staff and associates
PDA has a team of 42 staff, as well as a network of about 50 part-time associates who work on specific programmes as they arise. Heading the organisation is the Managing Director, assisted by a Deputy Managing Director and supported by two Technical Advisors:
Tony Dogbe, BA (Hons), MSc. specialises in social development, facilitating participatory development processes, and NGO management having worked in these areas for over 28 years as a community development worker, programme manager, consultant and executive director of a major Ghanaian NGO, and the co-founder and past Managing Director of PDA.
Celia Marshall, BA (Hons), MSc. PGCE, has lived and worked in Ghana for the last 24 years. She has worked for and in state and non-state organisations as a director, manager, OD consultant, team leader, facilitator, trainer and researcher, teacher and volunteer. She is a co-founder and past co-director of PDA.
The other PDA Programme staff are conversant with a range of competencies required to support the development of organisations and participatory learning and decision-making processes at different levels.
Finance
PDA is audited annually by Richard Owusu Afriye and Associates, Kumasi. PDA has a computerised accounting system (SAGE).
Logistical Capacity
PDA routinely organises workshops, training and research programmes, often involving large teams and many participants. The organisation has the necessary logistical capacity to facilitate both office and field work. Our logistical capacity includes:
- Offices in Kumasi and Accra
- Vehicles – 4×4 cross country cars and saloon cars
- Motor Bikes
- Computer equipment – laptops, desk-tops , tablets and printers,
- Scanners, flip chart stands, laminators, comb- binders, photocopiers
- Audio visual equipment including: LCD Projectors, digital cameras, video cameras and MP3 sound recorders
- Fixed high speed DSL broadband wireless internet facility in both offices
- Standby generators
Our Main Areas of Competence
- Qualitative research, using participatory rapid appraisal (PRA/PLA) approaches among others
- Quantitative research and methodological approaches using advance tools and software’s for analysis
- Facilitation, using participatory learning and action approaches to working with communities and organizations
- Facilitation/moderation of workshops and meetings
- Training & Capacity Building, using participatory learning methodologies
- Accompanying facilitators and managers of change processes in organisations and communities
- Organisation development – in particular accompanying NGOs and other civil society organisations
- Managing projects in our areas of work shown above
PDA also has experience in the following:
- Managing projects in our areas of work
- Fund/grant design and management
- Project design and management
- Proposal development