Ralph Sam

• Measurement, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) Unit. Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)

Responsibilities:

• Provide advisory services to project team and key stakeholders in defining project scope as well as enhancing effective team work for project success
• Project planning and tracking including regular monitoring of key milestones and performance indicators ensuring alignment with timelines and project objectives
• Set benchmarks for project impact assessment while ensuring alignment with project objectives
• Financial management including budgeting and ensuring implementation of each project deliverable in line budget
• Advise the project team in developing project activities and training field staff, while supervising fieldwork and project activities
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on progress and emerging issues while managing expectations regarding all project requirements and deliverables
• Data analysis, proposal and Report Writing
• Conduct in-depth analysis (quantitative and qualitative analysis), identifying key trends and insights that will inform strategic decision-making process
• Produce comprehensive reports and presentations summarizing findings and recommendations to stakeholders

• Measurement, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) Unit, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) Legon, Accra

Responsibilities

• Supported the Operations Manager in providing advisory services to project team and key stakeholders in defining project scope as well as enhancing effective team work for project success
• Assisted the Operations Manager in project planning and tracking key milestones and performance indicators ensuring alignment with timelines and project objectives
• Collaborated with the project team during budgeting and ensuring implementation of each project deliverable in line budget
• Assisted the Operations Manager in providing expert advice to the project team in developing project activities and training field staff, while supervising fieldwork and project activities
• Provided regular updates to Operations Manager and stakeholders on progress and emerging issues while managing expectations regarding all project requirements and deliverables
• Data analysis, proposal and Report Writing
• Conduct in-depth analysis (quantitative and qualitative analysis), identifying key trends and insights that will inform strategic decision-making process
• Produce comprehensive reports and presentations summarizing findings and recommendations

• Main objective: The purpose of the study was to assess the needs and challenges of VSLA groups, Enterprise groups as well as the profile of VSLA members and executives
• Detailed Tasks Assigned:
• Provided advisory services on project impact assessment
• Guided the project team to develop field activities and timelines
• Monitoring project activities against plan
• Provided in-depth analysis of quantitative and qualitative data
• Produced comprehensive report and presented summarized findings and recommendations to stakeholders

• Main objective: The purpose of the study was to provide comparative analysis of key program outcomes between 2020 and 2023
• Detailed Tasks Assigned:
• Provided expert advice on project impact assessment
• Collaborated with project team to streamline project indicators with questionnaire
• Developed budget and project timelines
• Tracking project progress against timelines
• Conducted in-depth analysis of quantitative and qualitative data
• Produced comprehensive report and presentations summarizing findings and recommendations

• Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming (L3F) Project, Main objective: The purpose of the study was to assess the impact L3F interventions on cocoa farmer households' welfare
• Detailed Tasks Assigned:
• Provided expert advice on project impact assessment
• Collaborated with project team to streamline project indicators with questionnaire
• Developed budget and project timelines
• Tracking project progress against timelines
• Conducted in-depth analysis of quantitative and qualitative data
• Produced comprehensive report and presentations summarizing findings and recommendations

• Ghana Education Outcomes Project (GEOP), Main objective: The purpose of the project was to identify the interventions or best practices, introduced by the service providers, that should be scaled up in the future in order to enhance the opportunities for learning from this initiative and enhance the Ministry of Education's (MoE's) ability to optimize the impact of GEOP
• Detailed Tasks Assigned:
• Advised project team in defining project scope and activities
• Collaborated with project team to develop budget and project implementation timelines
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals in a timely and effective manner
• Tracking including regular monitoring of key milestones and performance indicators
• Provided bi-weekly report to stakeholders on the status of the project progress and deliverables
• Produced comprehensive project report to stakeholder

• World Bank): West Africa Food System Resilience Program (FSRP) - Ghana
• Agricultural Inputs Distribution Survey, )
• Main objective: The project sought to independently verify the distribution of agricultural input supplied by Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) under FSRP
• Detailed Tasks Assigned:
• Collaborated with the World Bank to develop the instrument for input validation received by farmers
• Developed budget and project implementation timelines
• Developed and implemented project timelines, milestones, deliverable requirement to ensure contractual obligations were met
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals in a timely and effective manner
• Provided weekly report to the World Bank on the progress and issues arising from the input validation
• Produced comprehensive project report to the World Bank
• Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant (MoFA/IFAD): Emergency Support to Rural Livelihoods & Food Systems Exposed to COVID-19 (ESRF) Project

• Main objective: The overall goal of the project was to contribute to protecting the livelihoods, incomes, and resilience of target groups from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change
• Detailed Tasks Assigned:
• Collaborated with stakeholders to fine tune project outcomes
• Led project team during inception meeting with stakeholders
• Advised project team to streamline project outcomes with M&E
• Developed budget and project implementation timelines as well as ensuring project activities are inline with budget and schedule
• Trained and managed field staff (30 field staff)
• Provided weekly progress report to the stakeholders on the status of project
• Produced comprehensive project report to the stakeholders
• Led project team in presenting the summary of findings in validation workshop