Njala University

Tertiary

Njala University-  Sierra Leone

Research Coordinator at Invest Salone

Sierra Leone

As Research Coordinator (RC) Peter, commission participatory political economy analysis (PEA) at the national level, by geography, and by sector such that relevant team members are equipped with an understanding of the political economy issues that pertain to their respective intervention areas and can inform the decisions surrounding investments and reform prospects.He Leads on the research and mapping for concept note and sector strategies development, informed by existing literature, in-country research and engagement with government and private sector stakeholders.He Identify research needs, conceptualize and coordinate inputs of short-term technical consultants. Collect baseline data across the interventions in the portfolio, monitor and assess progresstowards outcomes.Support the Portfolio lead in tracking intervention results leading to the overall programme's strategy, ensuring consistency between the intervention portfolio and Invest Salone’s sectoral and overarching strategies.Present weekly, monthly and quarterly progress reports on relevant interventions to the Portfolio Manager using INTERCHANGE management information system (MIS) to store, organize, analyse and share data.Contribute to key knowledge management activities including training and dissemination workshops. Prepare case studies and articles on the lessons learned on inclusion from Invest Salone interventions to feed into the Communications team contributing to the delivery of the programme’s communications and engagement strategy.Perform other ad-hoc tasks in support of portfolio delivery

Invest Salone

Research Coordinator

FasterCapital is a virtual incubator that has a unique approach. It's based in Dubai Internet City (UAE). Currently, FasterCapital has 20 startups graduated from the incubation program. FasterCapital has invested more than $10.5m in the startups that it has. FasterCapital has already more than 230 companies in its acceleration program. FasterCapital presence is worldwide through more than 192 regional partners who represent FasterCapital in different countries. We created FasterCapital because we felt there's a big gap in the industry where only technical entrepreneurs have a chance of entering into incubators. Few entrepreneurs are focusing on smaller opportunities or building solutions for enterprises. FasterCapital's focus is on non-technical entrepreneurs who have good experience in one industry for over five years. Those entrepreneurs are not usually accepted in standard incubation programs and it is difficult for them to find the right technical co-founder. We will empower them by offering everything a standard incubator will offer plus becoming their co-funders and technical co-founders. We will be ready to build the product per equity and we are ready to invest between $200k-$2M per startup. Currently, FasterCapital has two main programs: - "Acceleration program"​ where we help startup in mentoring, business validation and financing - "Incubation program"​ where we provide all the advantages in acceleration program plus becoming a technical co-founder and co-investing up to 75% of the funding required. FasterCapital offers four round of funding per year where entrepreneurs can submit their startup and those accepted can join our "acceleration"​ or "incubation"​ programs for freeWe were established in 2010 by the name NextStep Systems. We have validated the model with more than 20 successful startups.

FasterCapital

Representative for Sierra Leone

Responsible for the efficient and effective implementation of the Resilience Business Development Services (RBDS) Program1. Delivering, organizing and facilitating RBDS trainings in each of the three hubs Freetown, Bo and Makeni 2. Playing a leading role in the designing  and reviewing of M&E processes, providing advice to M&E officer3. Providing input and feedback for development of upcoming  business trainings and other activities 4. Providing 1 -on-1 business coaching to SMEs5. Contributing to the design and delivery of all other elements of the RBDS accelerator program: peer to peer learning groups, seminars, online learning and technical assistance 6. Assisting  in sourcing and monitoring of consultants and  implementation partners for the program7. Supporting the recruitment of SMEs for future cohorts for the RBDS accelerator program, including development of marketing materials, conducting criteria checks , due diligence and need assessment.8. Sourcing new business opportunities for Cordaid to allow for meaningful support of the private sector in Sierra Leone with special emphasis, but not exclusively on the missing middle SMEs9. Involve in Financial  Planning and Budget Management (Managing Donor Funds and Managing Project Budgets)10 .Contributing in formulating strategy and operational programs for Private Sector Development in general and RBDS program in particular

Cordaid

Private Sector Development Progam Officer

1. Founder  of AskSalone- Centre for Research and Development consulting 2. General  management of the company 3. Search for consulting opportunities on behalf of the company  for research, impact assessments, baseline studies, projects designing, monitoring and evaluation systems audits and advisory 4. Develop bids  for consulting opportunities  5. Recruit, trained and qualified field research assistants or support staff for field data collection6. Recruit, trained associates consultants  as appropriate for  inclusion in bids 7. Representation and  coordination of activities of the company.8. Look out for partnerships  or collaboration opportunities for the company in carrying out its  activities 9. Develop research study plans, and  financial proposals  10. Develop research or impact assessment study instrumentations11. Coordinate filed  mobile based data collection  with support staff  12. Support data analysis and reports writing

AskSalone-Centre for Research and Development

Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant

As  Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst: Peter had made the following impactful achievements in programme delivery to date:Had proactively ensured that monitoring and results measurement activities were well planned, resourced and carried out so that relevant and useful information were generated on intervention performance.•	Being responsible for working with SOBA implementing partners, and directly with SOBA Sector Analysts, and had ensured that all interventions designed were in compliance with the DCED Standard. In practice he had been involved in intensive coaching and building the capacity of implementing partners and Sector Analysts in monitoring and results measurement.•	For each intervention, Peter take  charge in assisting in the development of all results chains before implementation and ensuring that a Measurement Plan is in place before interventions are executed and that an Intervention Guide is finalized within one month of project approval. •	Peter is providing advice to the same set of implementers on attribution strategies, baselines and survey designs: the data from which were used for making decisions on closure, parking, continuation and scale up of interventions. •	Peter is responsible for ensuring quarterly progress reports are completed and submitted on time by project teams; he had been assisting in the preparation and running of core team monthly meetings and quarterly strategic reviews. •	He had been responsible for the validation of data arising from the implementation of the Measurement Plans and had been verifying that the results conform to “best practices”. •	Had been responsible for aggregation of the impact of all interventions into a ‘programme results’ tracking sheet, for use by both SOBA management and DFID. And had successfully provided monitoring and evaluation coverage for the  SOBA resulting to a  two years consecutive A+ annual reviews rating by DFID (Donor)

Adam Smith International

Monitoring  and Evaluation Analyst

As monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Peter performed the following:	Specific ResponsibilitiesProject Start Up •	Clearly supported all programme staff to understand and support other project staff to understand the ISIS Consortium Project objectives, indicators and targets;•	He contributed to the design of standard consortium baseline tools and M&E protocol, as appropriate•	Peter supported the coordination and supervision of baseline data collectionProject Implementation•	In line with the project M&E plan, Peter contributed in the development of the project annual M&E operational plan and closely follow up the implementation of the plan with technical support from Consortium Coordination Unit and the Programme Quality and Monitoring Unit;•	He organized and led the project review meetings by the project staff and stakeholders and follow up on the implementation of the action points;•	Peter carried out regular monitoring and support visits to the project sites, and develop direct dialogue with the communities to ensure project quality;•	He took  part in the project annual plan development and closely supported the Programme Manager in tracking the implementation of the annual plan;•	He facilitated capacity building of team members to enable them to monitor and evaluate their own efforts, gathered and analyzed  relevant data and produce the required progress reports;•	Liaised with the Local Government M&E staff, Statistics office and other relevant agencies to collect current country information on the indicators relevant to the project;Human Resource Management:•	Directly managed  four education officers and  one data entering clerk and jointly developed objectives for team members, in consultation with staff, the National Education Coordinator and HR•	Conducted systematic performance reviews, as per Concern National and International Staff Manuals

Concern Worldwide

Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

Expert for project/program monitoring and evaluation,  feasibility studies, setting up quality control sysytem /ICS  for organic and Fairtrade certifications for smallholders farmers.

Independent  consultant

Monitoring and Evaluation Expert

- As Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator .Peter led in guiding the technical direction of the M&E approach and strategy. He supervised three M&E Officers in each of the field offices.•	Peter overseen all aspects of SNAP’s M&E system, including: 1) routine monitoring of program activities, 2) baseline,  mid-term, final evaluation assessment and 3) special studies or reports as  determined necessary by program progress.•	He assisted with ACDI/VOCA training on the use of the SNAP M&E system and partners’ roles with respect to data collection, management and quality in their respective regions. •	Peter conducted data quality reviews and ensured that all information required for submission to USAID were collected in a valid, reliable, and timely manner.•	Ensured compliance with USAID Office of Food for Peace implementation and reporting guidelines as well as ACDI/VOCA’s corporate M&E systems.•	Assisted in the preparation of reports and documents to USAID, the Government of Sierra Leone, ACDI/VOCA headquarters and other partner organizations.•	Prepared and conducted trainings on gender and monitoring and evaluation topics for staff and beneficiaries, collaborating with other trainers to ensure gender were  appropriately integrated and addressed in all trainings and M&E were  utilized and managed properly.• He ensured activities, results, challenges and lessons learned were accurately documented in a timely manner and were made available to all key stakeholders, including USAID/Sierra Leone, representatives of government ministries and to other donors and implementers.

ACDI/VOCA

M&E  Coordinator

Held the position of co-evaluator of the Stabex Project and designed impact survey for the project. The results of the impact survey of this project were presented at a conference in Kenema, Town, kenema district, and eastern region, Sierra Leone (German Agro Action and GTZ, 2009-10).Sierra Leone: Monitoring and Evaluation for Project to Support Cash Crops funded by ECMonitoring and Evaluation Officer Peter proposed  innovative ideas on how to effectively measure project successes; effectively administering M&E activities; designing tools to conducted qualitative and quantitative monitoring and assessment; supervising data collection and recording; assisted  in developing business plans for farmers’ association/cooperatives and training on book keeping; providing training for the field team on data collection and use of appropriate tools; and managing data bases as required (German Agro Action, 2008-09).

Welthungerhilfe

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Held the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for projects in areas promoting food access, rights and community mobilisation. Had overall responsibility for effectively administering M&E activities. Specific tasks and responsibilities included: designing tools to conduct qualitative and quantitative monitoring and assessment;

CARE    Sierra Leone

Responsibilities•	In charge of ten subordinates verifiers•	Supervise the verification of internally displaced persons (IDPs), vulnerable persons, especially orphans, suckling mothers, windows, the blind, unaccompanied children, the aged and refugees•	Identification of street children for the attention of child protection agencies. In remote areas of Sierra Leone.•	Monitoring distribution of both food and non-food items to vulnerable and refugees•	Data analysis to indicate the influx of IDPs and refugees for the attention of food pipe line agencies.

Peter Ghombo

Peter Ghombo