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Janet Awopole Yepakeh Tiah

Ghana

Janet Awopole Yepakeh Tiah Member since 18/12/2025

University of Ghana

Project Coordinator
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Employment history

 

September 2024- Program Coordinator, DDF funded Community of Practice Program-University of Ghana

  • Qualitative Data Analysis
  • Monitoring of program daily activities
  • Coordinating stakeholder engagement
  • Reporting program activities

May 2023-July 2024 (Consultancy) –: Team Member, Writing the final USAID Monitoring Evaluation and Technical Support Services (METSS), Ghana report

 

  • Reviewing project documents
  • Drafting sections of the report
  • Interviewing stakeholders
  • Reviewing drafts of other team members 

November 2023-: Qualitative Analyst, African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)

Reviewing project documents 

  • Code/analyse qualitative data
  • Draft sections of the report

 

 

 

Feb 2023-Aug 2023 (Consultancy) –: Team Member, Feed the Future Ghana Trade and Investment Activity Small and Medium Enterprises Baseline Survey. 

  • I reviewed relevant documents for literature
  • Drafted survey work plan development
  • Drafted questionnaire
  • Reviewed questionnaire programmed into CAPI
  • Trained Interviewers
  • Contributed to cleaning and analysing data
  • Contributed to reporting findings to stakeholders

Oct 2022-Sept 2023(Consultancy)–: Team Member, exploring maternal health inventions needed to reduce maternal deaths in Ghana.

  • Developed a synopsis on maternal health interventions Ghana and across the globe
  • Drafted a proposal on the role of male mid wives in reducing deaths
  • Contributed to developing a grant application
  • Developed data collection tools

 

Nov 2015 – Sep 2022                USAID Monitoring Evaluation and Technical Support Services (METSS) 

                                                Ghana

 

Position:                                      Team Lead, Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning

Responsibilities:

Supported five (5) USAID/Ghana Economic Growth Office Implementing Partners with a total budget of 297,980,763 million dollars to manage their Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, Collaborating and Adaptation as required by USAID.

 

  • Provided leadership and technical guidance in MEL and Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA).
  • Designed and managed six (6) survey implementation for USAID Ghana Feed the Future projects.
  • Lead the conduct of two (2) routine data quality assessment of USAID standard indicators reported externally
  • Led the recruitment, and supervision of organizations and consultants contracted to implement special studies required for evaluating project effects and impacts.
  • Lead capacity building in MEL, CLA, health information systems, data collection, analysis, and use.
  • Collated reports METSS II Research Monitoring and Evaluation reports as required by USAID.
  • Contributed to Feed the Future zone of influence end line and baseline surveys.

 

July 2013 – Aug 2015                Ghana Essential Health Intervention Programme (GEHIP)

                                                Ghana

 

Position:                                      Research Fellow 

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and coordinated four (4) research studies, including proposal development, designing, and collecting maternal and child health, governance development, and political engagement data.
  • Coordinated the training of one hundred and thirty-seven (137) Community Health Nurses, District Health Directors, and community health volunteers on the GEHIP’s interventions.
  • Provided writing and editorial support to GEHIP’s Knowledge Management Team, in addition to authoring articles for newsletter series, manual series, reports, and additional dissemination products.   
  • Conducted direct monitoring and evaluation at facility and frontline levels, assessing practices related to family planning, antenatal care, skilled deliveries, and outpatient attendance, and assessing the status of facilities’ equipment.
  • Led the development, management and monitoring of budget for program interventions and site visits.
  • Supported the development of annual reports to donor.
  • Compiled and disseminated project learning toolkit, which is a compilation of the best practices and how they are implemented by the GEHIP.

 

Mar 2013 – Oct 2013               Pacific Solutions and Services (PS&S)

                                                Ghana     

Position:                                      Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Supported the design of the monitoring and evaluation strategy, including developing tools for data collection activities to come out with the impact and stakeholder perception of the program.
  • Directly trained field workers on how to conduct interviews, use the monitoring and evaluation tools, and use appropriate methods for community entry. This was for both quantitative and qualitative data collection.
  • Provided technical assistance for monitoring and evaluating activities of a large research project focused on assessing the views and perceptions of the direct beneficiaries of the Nutrition and Malaria Control Program.
  • Created a supervisory checklist and data entry template for use by data entry staff.
  • Provided technical assistance for the analysis of quantitative data collected using SPSS software and supported the writing and dissemination of research findings.

 

 Jan 2013 – Mar 2013               Accra Metropolitan Health Directorate, Accra, Ghana   

                                                Ghana                                       

Position:                                      Resident (during Master’s program) 

Responsibilities:

  • Worked with the public health nurse on immunizations, midwifery trainings and community durbars on sanitation, maternal and child health within the Accra metropolitan vicinity.
  • Attended general meetings and workshops organized by the health directorate.               

                               

Oct 2009 - May 2011                Ghana Health Service, Research and Development Division

                                                Ghana

Position:                                      Assistant Research Officer

Responsibilities:

  • Contributed to the development of proposal for health programs.
  • Coordinated the training of close to four- hundred interviewers on data collection skills and community entry.
  • Supervised the collection of quantitative and qualitative data for various studies.
  • Developed data entry templates using SPSS software and excel.
  • Conducted quantitative and qualitative data analysis using STATA and NVivo software.
  • Contributed to writing of reports from studies conducted and other field or office activities

My contributions

  • Discussion

    Evaluation under pressure : Strengthening evidence use, accountability and learning amidst funding constraints (Joint EvalforEarth-ALNAP discussion)

    • Janet Awopole Yepakeh Tiah

      Ghana

      Janet Awopole Yepakeh Tiah

      Project Coordinator

      University of Ghana

      Posted on 13/10/2026

      Aid Cuts and the Deprioritization of M&E: Lost Evidence, Lost Learning, Wasted Capacity, and Looming Implementation Errors

      Aid is being cut. At the same time, monitoring and evaluation is being pushed down the priority list. The result is a multiple burden: fewer resources to deliver interventions, less ability to know what those resources achieved, wasted M&E capacity, and a looming cycle of costly mistakes because we lack the knowledge to streamline future projects.

      Part of the problem is that donors are no longer demanding M&E as part of reporting on the limited funds that remain. When M&E is not a reporting requirement, it is the first thing implementers drop to protect service delivery. Without that demand, there is little incentive to keep systems running or to show results.

      Our Loses:

      • Knowing impact: Without M&E, we cannot show whether programs improved health outcomes, reached the right people, or delivered value for money.
      • Learning from challenges and successes: Evaluations and learning reviews are postponed or cancelled. What worked is not scaled, and what failed is repeated.
      • Capacities built, then wasted: Years of investment in trained M&E officers, data systems, and local expertise are lost when positions end and platforms are left unsupported.
      • Less data does not mean fewer problems. It means problems we cannot see, and progress we cannot prove.

      What we can do:

      • Donors: Keep M&E as a required part of reporting, even when funds are limited, and ring-fence a small share of budgets for it
      • Implementers: Keep a minimum core set of indicators running
      • Governments: Integrate M&E into routine information systems
      • All of us: Retain and build local capacity so systems outlast donor cycles, and document lessons before programs close
      • Limited funds make evidence more important, not less. Cutting aid reduces what we can deliver. Dropping M&E from reporting reduces what we can learn, prove, and sustain. We cannot afford to lose both.
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