Tony Dogbe
TONY DOGBE (Chair)
Tony is a co-founder of PDA and its former managing director (2008-2012) and co-director (2001-2008). He is an experienced social and community development worker, trainer, researcher, manager, consultant and workshop facilitator/moderator. He has worked with government, non-government and private sector institutions in various areas of human development endeavour. For nearly nine years he was the Executive Director of one of the leading Ghanaian NGOs, Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) and thereafter served on its Board from 2000 to 2009. Prior to this he worked for VSO as a programme officer responsible for social and community development as well as managing its office in Tamale. From 2000-2004, he was on VSO’s Board of Trustees in the U.K. The experience he now draws on as a consultant and advisor is thus based on a broad but in-depth interactions with governmental and non-governmental organisations, working from village to national policy level.
CELIA MARSHALL
CELIA MARSHALL (Vice Chair)
Celia is a co-founder of PDA and worked as a staff member for over twelve years – seven as a Co-Director and five as Senior Consultant. She is now a free-lance social development consultant, but continues to contribute to PDA as a board member.
Rebecca Sabah
REBECCA SABAH (Company Secretary)
Rebecca joined the PDA Board in December 2012. She is a development practitioner with over 12 years’ experience in policy advocacy, campaign development and participatory community research. She is a trained facilitator and organisational development (OD) expert.
She has worked as Technical Adviser to the Executive Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa and for several years as Country Manager for Christian Aid, a policy advocacy organisation. She has been actively involved in several Ghanaian and pan African civil society advocacy campaigns such as Forest for the People, Stop EPAs!, Cut the Carbon and tax justice campaigns.
Nana Kwasi Agyepong
NANA KWASI AGYEPONG (Company Treasurer)
Nana Kwasi Agyepong is an experienced financial administrator and trainer with over 20 years experience. He joined the PDA Board in 2013. He began his professional career in 1991 as a finance and administration officer with the Ghana Cooperative Credit Unions Association (CUA) and rose to th position of Zonal Manager for the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions. He later went on to become the Technical Services Manager for African Credit Unions revitalisation program of the World Council of Credit Unions. He also joined DLH Consultancy Services as its Company Secretary and Training Consultant.
Mr Agyepong has spent 8 years as a lecturer for institutions such as ICSA Study School, Institute of Professional Studies, Management & Financial Training Institute, Jeff Wooller College, London and Kokayi School, London. He is a Sage Accounts trainer and Sage reseller in Ghana. He also worked as the Finance and Administration Manager at the London Borough of Lewisham in charge of the Surestart project 2002 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2009, when he was hired by the Ghana Integrity Initiative as the Business Development Manager.
EDEM AGBE
EDEM AGBE (Board Member)
Edem Agbe is the Managing Director of Participatory Development Associates (PDA). Edem is an experienced development practitioner with professional experience in the fields of community development, research, monitoring and evaluation, project management policy analysis, financial inclusion and organisation development. Prior to his appointment as the Managing Director, Edem worked as the Ghana country coordinator for the Youth Forward initiative Learning Partnership led by Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Participatory Development Associates (PDA) and Development Research and Training (DRT), Uganda. The Youth Forward initiative is in partnership with MasterCard Foundation and is being implemented by 28 organisations in Ghana and Uganda to create sustainable employment and economic opportunities for youth in Construction and Agriculture sectors.
