The Board of Directors
Mary Tobbin Osei
Board Chair
An accomplished Social Development Consultant with over fifteen years’ experience working on and managing international development projects; a proven track record of leveraging operational and strategic expertise in a wide range of sectors including education, health, justice, anti-corruption, oil and gas, governance, income security, social protection; with gender, rights, participation and empowerment as cross cutting themes and a strong focus on learning.
Currently an independent consultant, Mary until recently was the Deputy Team leader for STAR-Ghana, she has almost twenty years post degree working experience with diverse organisations (Civil Society, government and private sector) both in Ghana and internationally. She has extensive experience in programme design and management and excellent skills in human and organisational capacity development. Mary has been involved in advocacy campaigns at the international, national and grassroots levels; with extensive experience in mainstreaming vulnerability issues into programming.
She has worked in diverse sectors in the development arena and has great understanding of the Ghanaian governance context and extensive experience in supporting CSOs and brokering relations between diverse actors for effective development programming.
Harriet Nottinson Asante (Mrs)
Executive Director
Harriet Nottinson Asante (Mrs) is a development worker and has over 7 years working experience in Civil Society Organization. She has professional training in Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluations, Organizational Development and Strategic Management, Human Resource Management among others.
Harriet has Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizations and Personnel management, MSC in Organizational Development, Advance Organizational Development Certified Consultants from the Institute of Organizational development (IOD) USA, and MSC in Strategic Management and Leadership from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Harriet has a great experience in working with over 350 CSOs across the country most especially in data collection, analysis, reporting, proposal development and ability to hold stakeholders dialogue and national level engagements. Harriet has coordinated several projects in the CSOs space which are Donor driven and
has impacted several communities. She has been in several platforms both in country and abroad to propagate the work of CSOs in the health sector.
Her passion has been in touching lives and giving hope to the hopeless in society. She is very respectful, committed, excellent team player, have high sense of integrity and results-driven professional.
Apostle Dr. Jimmy Markin
Board Member
Reverend Amos Jimmy Markin is a Senior Minister, an Apostle, of the Church of Pentecost. He has been in the service of the organisation since 1991. He has served in several capacities as Youth Area Leader, district Pastor in many places including Oppong Valley, Wassa Akropong, Pentecost International Worship Center – Kumasi, Asamankese and Accra New Town districts and now is the Area Head of the Church in the Upper East Region. He also couples as the Upper East Chairman of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic churches. Until recently he was a member of the International Missions Board of the Church of Pentecost having served for over 16 years.
Reverend Markin holds a Master of Arts degree in the Study of Religions from the University of Ghana, Legon (2004-2006) and is currently pursuing a PhD in Global Christian Missions with South African Theological Seminary since 2011.
He is married to Mavis Brenya Markin and have four children, two boys and two girls.
Tuinese Edward Amuzu
Board Member
Tuinese Edward Amuzu has over fourteen (14) years of professional experience in the fields of law, access to justice, human rights and development. He was awarded a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in International Human Rights Law with distinction from Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis in August 2006. He graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree in June 1999.
He was called to the Bar in Ghana in October 2001. He was a Hewlett Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International, Harvard University, MA, United States where he was awarded a Certificate of Advanced Studies and Research in Political Economy in December 2009. In June 2013, he was awarded a Certificate in Project Management by the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) after undertaking a “PMBOK Based” Project Management Course.
From January 2011 to January 2013, Mr. Amuzu was a consultant for the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) and the Cameroon Nigeria Mixed Commission (CNMC) on human rights law and gender issues. He has participated in several high level diplomatic missions organised under the auspices of the Cameroon Nigeria Mixed Commission and the United Nations Office for West Africa for an exemplary peaceful implementation of the 10 October 2002 Judgement of the International Court of Justice on the land and maritime boundary (including oil rich Bakassi peninsula) dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria.
Between June 2003 and Dec. 2010, he was the Legal Officer, Director of Legal Services, Associate Executive Director and Executive Director of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Ghana, a non-governmental organisation. From November 2002 to March 2003, he worked in private legal practice with Binewoatsor and Associates, a private law firm in Accra.
Mr. Amuzu has consulted for many inter-governmental institutions and development partners including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ghana, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Organisation for Migration, the German Development Agency (GIZ), and the Netherlands Development Agency (SNV). He has also consulted for many national institutions and non-governmental organisations including the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, the Rights and Voice Initiative (RAVI), the Local Government Service Secretariat (LGSS), the Parliamentary Centre, Canada, Particip, Freiburg, Germany and the African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA).
Mr. Amuzu has written several papers and concept notes on human rights and access to justice. He has also conducted training for different categories of actors in the human rights and access to justice fields.
His research interests include the legal aspects of medical practice and the relationship between the law and development, and the political economy of justice delivery in Ghana. He teaches the Law of Contract at the Faculty of Law, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Law, Lancaster University, Ghana.
Elder Matthew Nkansah
Board Member
Elder Mathew Nkansah is a philanthropist, an industrialist and an entrepreneur. He is also a conference speaker and a Radio / Television Evangelist. He has the passion to assist the needy in society in order to eliminate poverty among the rural folk and also raise the standard of living among peasant farmers. In 1994, his passion drove him to set up a business with the aim of organising farmers to form an out-grower system to produce raw botanical and agricultural products for export and for the local market. Within a year of establishment, his business, the Bride Tidings Enterprise had turned into a full-fledged Limited Liability Company of which he runs as the Chief Executive Officer.
Under his leadership the company has won several awards both locally and internationally. The awards include the Euro Marketing Award in 2003, The Best and Dependable Medicinal Seed and Plant Supplier in Ghana by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA). Mathew is affiliated to the Swiss Import Promotion Organisation (SIPO), the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETPRO) and CBI in Holland.
Elder Nkansah is currently the Missions Leader and the Patron of the Children’s Ministry at the Pentecost Internaltional Worship Centre (PIWC) of Atomic, a suburb of Accra, a member of the Pent TV Board, a governing member of Concord University College in Accra, a board member of the Botanical Producers Association of Ghana (BOTPAG. He currently act as the acting president and a founding member of JAM Media Consult, a subsidiary of Atinka FM, a private radio station in Accra owned by Tobinco Group of Companies.