Management Team
Stephen Amoako
Coordinator, Education Management Improvement
Mr. Amoako has over 17 years of management experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of community and social development programs in multi-cultural settings. He has competencies in research including baseline surveys, monitoring and evaluation and impact studies; food resource management; and social policy analysis. In 2007, he became the national facilitator for a World Bank Institute/USAID EQUIP 2 distance learning course in accountability and governance in decentralisation of education in Africa. Before coming to EQUALL, he was the acting country director for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Guinea, where he was also program director. Mr. Amoako oversaw food security and maternal and child health programs with a combined life-of-activity budget of over $10 million. He spent many years with ADRA in Ghana before his work in ADRA/Guinea.
Previously, he played the lead role in proposal development for food security, education, health, natural resource management and disaster relief program for major donors such as USAID, SIDA and CIDA. He has broad exposure in international settings through working, consultancies and professional training including Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East and more than ten countries in Africa. His work in education began as a tutor in the training college where he graduated and as a teaching assistant at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where he got his first degree. Mr. Amoako has a Master’s degree in Administration and International Development from Andrews University in Michigan, USA.
