Northern Sector Action on Awareness Center (NORSAAC)

Tunde Ogunje had his second field placement with Norsaac, a local NGO in Ghana operating from Tamale in the northern region of the country, but the main work was with the independent subsidiary of Norsaac called NiV that manages all the sustainable livelihood and social enterprise projects of Norsaac. In all, there were three projects, but all required new concept development. The projects include advising on the mechanism to upscale an existing revolving fund, developing and submitting a grant proposal for a project termed “YEESS project” which stands for Youth Entrepreneurship Education for Secondary Schools, and developing the framework for a strategic plan for the newly built training centre as a potential source of additional revenue for NiV.

In addition to these three main projects, Tunde also facilitated some sessions in the training for potential young, female social entrepreneurs in a project that Norsaac and NiV are managing for Youth Challenge International (YCI), called HerStart which is funded by Global Affairs Canada.

“This field placement is special in that I was able to draw on some ideas I had used in various assignments in the MDP program and other previous experience in my professional work over the years”.