Team lead
Nicholas Issaka Gbana
Development economist and chartered accountant, thirty years across programme management and consulting in West Africa. MA in Economic Policy Management, University of Ghana.
GESI and labour market assessment →
About
A Ghanaian firm, built around evidence
Based in Accra and Tamale, working across Ghana with a West African outlook.
NexPAL LLC is led by Rahaman Abdul-Salam, a monitoring, evaluation and learning specialist working across development programmes, agriculture, trade and enterprise development.
He holds an MSc in Development Policy and Planning, a diploma in monitoring and evaluation, and a first degree in integrated community development. His work spans programme strategy, field implementation, evidence and commercial decision-making, so he understands both what a development partner has to report and what a business has to decide.
He works in English, Hausa, Twi, Dagbani and Gruni, which matters more than it sounds: it is the difference between supervising fieldwork and listening to it.
He also holds monitoring and evaluation roles on other development programmes, which keeps the practice close to how donors and implementers actually report.
Who leads the work
Assignment leads
Every assignment carries a named lead, accountable for delivery and for quality. These are the leads who have carried NexPAL assignments.
Team lead
Jonathan France
Evaluation specialist, twenty-three years directing mixed-methods evaluations in education, employment and global health across more than fifteen countries. MSc Comparative Politics, London School of Economics.
Performance measurement and tracer study →How we are set up
A small core team and a selected network
NexPAL runs with a small core team and a network of associate consultants brought in for the assignment that needs them. Associates are selected on the specific requirement, the relevant sector and a record we can check. Each assignment has a named lead consultant, accountable for delivery and for quality, and that person is your point of contact throughout.
Enumerator teams are recruited in the districts where fieldwork happens, trained for the specific instrument, and supervised by a field coordinator rather than remotely.
Quality accountability sits with the lead consultant. Instruments, sampling notes and draft reports are reviewed internally before they go to a client, and the review is documented so a client can see what was checked.
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Data systems and analysis
Database design, digital collection tools, analysis and dashboards.
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Research and evaluation
Study design, qualitative and quantitative methods, evaluation and reporting.
03
Gender equality and social inclusion
Inclusive design, GESI assessment, and inclusion in sampling and field protocols.
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Agriculture and market systems
Value chains, sourcing, agribusiness and market-system analysis.
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Field operations
Enumerator recruitment, training and supervision across Ghana's regions.
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Coordination and client engagement
Assignment coordination, field logistics and client reporting.
Where we came from
Predecessor practice
Several of the assignments listed on this site were delivered by the same team under ASRAHMS, before the consulting work was carried on as NexPAL LLC.
NexPAL LLC carries on the consulting work previously delivered under ASRAHMS, with the same lead team and the same clients. Each assignment on this site names the entity that delivered it.
Offices
Accra and Tamale
Our delivery base is Ghana. Tamale is where field operations are run from, which is deliberate: most of the fieldwork we do is in the northern regions, and running it from the north shortens every decision.
We are building the same model outwards across West Africa: a small core team, selected specialists, and field teams recruited where the work is.
Accra
18th Flower Street, Dome – Pillar II, Accra, Ghana
Tamale
1st Sayakulu Street, off Gbalahi Road, Saantugu, Tamale, Ghana
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