Gideon AMANKWAH

• Coordinated and facilitated focus group discussions with 50+ youth and women from pastoral communities to gather primary data and insights on their economic and health needs; results were used to inform the design anddevelopment of tailored interventions that increased youth and women empowerment by 30%.
• Spearheaded the development and implementation of a project on food security,sustainable livelihood, and resilience in pastoral communities; engaged over 500stakeholders to increase community involvement and ownership of the project,leading to a 40% increase in participation rates.
• Analyze unstructured information to derive key insights on social enterprise projects by identifying key beneficiaries and stakeholders of the project.
• Coordinate funding efforts and enhancing project development with funders and partner organizations including timely reporting for sustained interest in program initiatives.
• Review program implementation plans to assess risk and feasibility and propose mitigative actions to manage them.

• Meeting productivity goals, intersecting between transportation and logistics to ensure orders are delivered quickly and accurately
• Operated variety of conveyors, moving packages in and out of loading dock areas safely and efficiently.
• Applied Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards for lifting, working at heights and hazardous chemical handling.
• Maintained high-level work standard achieving 97% accuracy sorting and processing.

• Supported in the training of 700 personnel to fulfill various roles and increase learning budget utilization by 40%.
• Established and maintained quality control standards.
• Analyzed and evaluated training effectiveness and program outcomes.
• Conducted needs assessments to identify gaps in performance and develop targeted learning solutions.
• Coordinated training schedules across sites with supervisors and managers to optimize training initiatives and work-flow management.
• Worked with vendors to customize learning programmes to accommodate business needs.

• Designed baseline surveys and other evaluation tools to collect meaningful, actionable data on venture capital.
• Used Excel to compile and interpret secondary data, communicated outcomes of effectiveness venture capital research to project team in user friendly formats.
• Assessed effectiveness and quality of venture capital university program based on internal and external data analyses.
• Recommended adjustments to monitoring, measuring and analysis strategies to effectively assess progress toward program goals.

• Generated fiscal impact with data collection for forecasting macroeconomic and financial conditions and explain economic developments in Ghana.
• Conducted research on emerging trade facilitation issues to confirm relevance of methodologies in the African context.
• Assisted robust economic valuation methodologies to resolve inconsistencies in calculations using STATA and excel.
• Disseminated research projects with written reports, articles and presentations.
• Analyzed qualitative and quantitative research to deliver economic policy analysis.
• Liaised with senior Economists to straighten evidence-based financial, economic and sector analysis to inform country strategic papers in Ghana.

• Compiled statistical data, performed budget analysis in excel and created visualizations, presentations and reports.
• Coordinated high-level stakeholder engagements on the budget preparation process in Ghana
• Organized citizens budget dissemination workshop in 6 local languages in 6 districts in Ghana
• Implemented budgetary monitoring techniques to improve on public financial management in Ghana.
• Participated in team projects, demonstrating an ability to work collaboratively and effectively.

• Reviewed documents and data to identify trends and patterns.
• Collaborated with other researchers to develop successful research strategies.
• Collected research data through experimentation, surveys and leading focus groups.
• Created surveys and questionnaires on evaluation and baseline research of 10 international funded to collect data for research projects.
• Gathered, arranged, and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
• Utilized advanced analytical software such as SPSS, Excel and STATA to analyze data sets and created reports.
• Drafted inception, progress, briefs, and evaluation reports and participated in evaluation and validation workshops with relevant stakeholders.

Specialized in Policy and socioeconomic developments.

• DAAD Scholarship, 2021 from University of Erfurt

Specialized in Money, Banking and Finance; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics