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4. Program Management

4.1 Program Leadership, Structure and Staffing

Staff transition Mr. Mark Fenn resigned his position as Chief of Party with effect from November, 2012 to take on a new position with Winrock International on a USAID supported program on Climate Change in Vietnam. CRC in consultation with USAID promoted from within, the senior full time in-country Deputy Chief of Party, Mr. Kofi Agbogah to position of Chief of Party Program Director and Mr. Stephen Kankam, the technical lead for the district planning activities as Deputy Chief of Party Program Coordinator. Dr. Don Robadue of CRCURI assumed the role of overall program manager based in Rhode Island and increased his presence in Ghana. Dr. Brian Crawford maintained his oversight role as Director of CRC. ICFG H ɛn Mpoano Advisory Council The political transition in Ghana at the beginning of 2013 saw the transfer of Mr. David Yaro, Chief Director of the Western Region Coordinating Council and Chair of the ICFG Advisory Council from the Western Region to Accra. He takes on a new position as the Chief Director of the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Cultural Affairs. As the ICFG Initiative is anchored within the WRCC, the new Chief Director Mr. Kwaku Osei-Poku, who had on occasions deputized for Mr. David Yaro on the Advisory Council assumed the position of the Chairman of the Council. Mr. Kwaku Osei-Poku is a beneficiary of the study tour to the Philippines organized by the Initiative in May 2012 and very much abreast with the activities of the H ɛn Mpoano Initiative. Awulae Agyefi Kwame III, Paramount Chief of the Nsein Traditional Area and member of the H ɛn Mpoano Advisory Council tendered in his resignation from the Hɛn Mpoano Advisory Council on grounds of ill-health and advanced age. He has since been replaced by Awulae Amihere Kpanyili II, Paramount Chief of the Eastern Nzema Traditional Area. In January 2013, Rt. Rev. John Martin Darko Bishop Catholic Diocese, Sekondi-Takoradi, Advisory Council Member passed on to glory. He has been replaced on the Council by Reverend George Pepra Addo, General Secretary of Religious Groups in the Western Region

4.2 Strategic Partners, Clients and Collaboration