Portland Portal

Nana Opare-Djan is the founder/Director of Kraban Support Foundation, a leading Financial NGO in Ghana. He possesses a Master of Arts degree in Adult Education from the University of Ghana; a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from GIMPA and a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science with Sociology) from the University of Ghana. He is a student-member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He is also a visiting student of two renowned capacity building institutions in the world namely: AICAD located at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya and the Management for Development Foundation in Ede-Waginegen, The Netherlands. He has also benefitted from a Microfinance Training with the Boulder Institute of Microfinance held at the International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy.  

Nana Opare-Djan has over 15 years experience in participatory training, research and evaluation in addition to acquiring considerable knowledge and practice in development planning and project management.  He has acquired competencies to design and evaluate socioeconomic projects including informal financial intermediation programmes. He also has experience in gender project identification, consultancy, product research and development. He has assisted the development of business and marketing plans for micro, small and medium enterprises to access funding from commercial sources locally and internationally.

Nana Opare - Djan has both public and private sector work experience. He has worked with several organisations including National Development Planning Commission, Ministry of Employment & Social Welfare, Lower Pra Rural Bank Limited and Women’s World Banking Ghana Limited among others.

Nana Opare-Djan has also written several articles which have been published in both local and international journals and at the Microfinance Gateway Website (www.microfinancegateway.org).

He can be reached on 020 8132074/024 4149954

Email: nanaopare1962@yahoo.co.uk