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Mr. Ben Ovio
He is the Founder and the Pioneer Executive Director of this organisation. A professional development management consultant with over a decade experience in conceptualising, designing, developing project concepts and proposals, resource mobilisation and fund raising, implementing, monitoring and evaluating sustainable social development projects and programmes in Africa, Europe and North America. A certified management consultant with a Master of Arts degree in International Development Management from the Institute for Development Policy & Management, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom and a Master of Science in Social Works & Community Development. His area of specialization and research interests are: Sustainable Community-driven development; Politics & Development; Perspectives in Development; Social Development, Analysis & Policy; Political Economy of Development; NGO Management & Strategy; Small Enterprise & Social Enterprise Development; Microfinance; Development Research Skills; Planning & Managing Development; Organization Development & Change Management; Strategic Planning & Organisational Sustainability Planning; Quality Assurance & Quality Management Systems in the voluntary sector with specific interest in Non-governmental organisations, Social Enterprises and Community interest Companies.
He has been specifically responsible for corporate strategic business development, corporate fund raising and major donors through proposals and income generating consulting assignments. He demonstrates expertise and knowledge in the workings of multilateral and bilateral development agencies and international foundations and multinational corporations i.e. The World Bank Group; United States Agency for International Development; European Commission; Shell Foundation; Shell International; Exxon Mobil and Government Agencies etc.
He was awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship in 2004 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the University of Manchester as a middle level development management professional. He equally emerged, a two finalist in the Development Marketplace World Bank Global Competition in Washington D.C. in 2002 & 2003; winner of the Shell Foundation Global Sustainable Community Programme Award in 2003.
· Designing Social Development Programmes and Projects;
· Corporate Strategic Planning and Business Development;
· Partnerships and Network Building;
· Development Research Skills;
· Human Resources Development and Utilisation, Organization Development and Change Management System;
· Community Mobilisation and Community Relations Skills;
· Micro Enterprise Development Programme & Business Development Services
· Sustainable Employment Generation;
· Quality Asurance & Quality Management Systems and Institutional Capacity Building;
· Design & Implementation of Pro-poor Micro Credit Programmes;
· Monitoring & Evaluation of social development projects using logical frameworks of analysis;
· Facilitation, Training/Capacity Development using adult learning methodology;
· Participatory Rural Appraisal/Participatory Learning & Action;
· Major Donor & Statutory Funding/Leveraging;
· Extensive experience in sustinable social development project planning, policy analysis and development management in public sector with focus on Sustainable Livelihoods, Enterprise & Employment Generation;
· Participated in National Strategies development through Participatory Methods including Poverty Reduction Strategy for Nigeria;
· Resource person for several youth enterprise development programmes.
Country Experience:
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Date from - Date to
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Nigeria
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1985 till date
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Ghana
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1995 till date
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Lesotho
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2005 till date
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South Africa
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2003 till date
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Namibia
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2003 till date
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Zimbabwe
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1990 till date
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Sri Lanka
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2005 till date
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Liberia
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2000 till date
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United Kingdom
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2002 till date
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MRS LILIAN BEN-OVIO
Currently the Project Director, Lilian holds an M.Sc in Social Works and Community Development and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics from the University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. Her passion for gender and women development has resulted in her current pursuit towards obtaining a Diploma in Child Care and Learning from the N.C.C., United Kingdom.
For the past 9 years, she has brought her professionalism in project management and service delivery to bear in all her assignments. She has been actively involved in the design and implementation of all projects embarked upon by ENDIP.
Her interest in gendered business development and advisory/mentorship services has led her to develop the professsional wing of the micro-credit for micro-enterprise development of vulnerabe and poor women in Africa. Currently, she is involved in brokering international business linkage with African women through the provision of import/export opportunties in sustainable enterprise development. She is currently the project manager for an NLNG sponsored Business Development & Advisory Support Services for 21 communities of Abua & Ekpeye communities of Rivers State.
Lilian's pragmatic disposition to assignments has earned her a reputation for effective community mobilisation and sustainable development. She is a firm believer in the empowerment of women through the development of micro-enterprise as a tool for poverty reduction.
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