About us

• Human resources management (in international context)
• Competency based learning
• Communication skills
• Leadership 
• People management
• Personal effectiveness

Languages: English, Dutch, French

In March 2011 she joined her husband in a new professional challenge and moved to Accra, Ghana for a period of minimum 3 years. In June 2011, she joined MDF West Africa to continue her professional career. Sofie has a Master degree in organizational psychology from the University of Leuven (Belgium). She also holds a teaching degree.

Before joining MDF, she worked for 3 years in the field of recruitment/assessment for large international companies in the area of Brussels with the company HAYS. She was responsible for the acquisition, client contacts as well as the screening/assessing of valuable candidates. After this first experience she worked for 2 years as project leader for competence development with the training company CEVORA.  As project leader she needed to manage the coordination/organisation of trainings, negotiate with various partners involved and evaluate trainings on topics such as assertiveness, efficiency, stress resistance etc. On the other hand she was involved in the training and coaching of unemployed people who wanted to change their career direction (older people, young graduates, people with a disability, ex-convicts, people without a higher education) to improve reintegration in the job market by improving their self-esteem and practicing presenting themselves to companies.

With MDF she will be responsible for external relations (acquisition, client contact), project coordination and giving trainings/consultancy in her domain of expertise.

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• Secretarial services
• Course registration
• Taking care of the practical and logistical aspects around a training or consultancy assigment.

Phylicia Adjei holds a B.A in Management Studies from the University of Cape-Coast as well as a Degree in Business Management from the Institute of Professional Studies (I.PS.) Legon-Accra. She started with MDF West Africa in April 2011.

For the past 12 years Phylicia worked as an Office Administrator therefore has obtained a strong background in that field. She is very efficient and a highly dedicated individual with a knack for attention to details. She possesses the ability of working with little or no supervision and is always ready to take up new challenges. Phylicia is sociable and a good team player. She speaks English but would love to learn other languages. At her leisure time she takes to reading, research and writing poems.

Institutional Management: Organisational Assessment, Business planning, Process Facilitation and Organizational Change.

Languages: English

He is a professional Organisation and Systems Development Intervener with key competencies and skills in Process Consulting and Professional Development, capacity development, transformational change management for Organizational Effectiveness and organizational Action Planning and  learning, Organizational Behavior, Mentoring Teams/Building High Performing Team, Organizational Interventions and Implementation Planning, Emotional Intelligence, Review Business Planning, Best Practices in Leadership, Coaching , Talent Management, System Learning, Action Research for Internal Consultant.

He was actively involved in institutional development consultancies in Ghana health sector namely: management development training, policy harmonization and capacity building of the management staffs of National Health Insurance Schemes in Ghana supported by Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), Mandatory Continuous Professional Development (MCPD) for both private and public sector  Medical and Dental Practitioners in Collaboration with Ghana Health Services (GHS), Ministry of Health (MOH), Ghana Food and Drugs Board, Ghana Medical and Dental Council and Ghana Quality Organization.

He had a formal education in Organisation Development, Management and Administration and a Certified Member of Institute of Organization Development (USA), African Institute of Organizational Development, Institute of Directors - Ghana, International Professional Managers Association-UK, Ghana Quality Organization, Chartered Institute of Administration and Management Consultant and has attended various short courses and workshops giving him a healthy balance as a professional.

Actually, the main base of his work is the consulting services to MDF for the realization of PharmAccess International (PAI)/Medical Credit Fund initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa with the support and coordination for the upgrading and business plans for Private Medical and Dental Practitioners and Maternity homes/clinic.

• Participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation, organisation development, people management.
• Management support and training in the education - and rural development sector.
• Rural development, strengthening farmer's organisations, gender and development.

Languages: English, French, Dutch

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Since the 1st of August 2011, Marie-José is heading the MDF West Africa Branch Office, based in Accra, Ghana. She shall at the same time remain involved in the execution of assignments and the management of projects. Marie-José: “I am looking forward to meeting you in Ghana or digitally. Welcome!”

Marie-José first joined MDF in 1993 as trainer/consultant. She has been involved in training (development, execution), consultancies (e.g. evaluations, facilitation of workshops) and the management of multiple annual projects. This for many types of organisations such as international NGOs, European Commission, ILO, Nuffic, etc . Marie-José has been Head of the Education and Rural Development Unit, and later on the Head of the Project and Programme Management Unit supporting a group of trainers/consultants in their work.

From 1988 – 1993, she worked as advisor for strengthening of farmers' organisations with emphasis on women involvement within the Office du Niger/Mali, a para-statal organisation responsible for small farmer irrigated rice production. In 1987 Marie-José developed a gender mainstreaming trajectory for the International Agricultural Training Institutes under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.

Previously Marie-José worked in Zambia as a Women Extension Officer (Department of Agriculture, Western Province) in charge of training of agricultural field staff, mainstreaming gender in extension programmes and setting up a women income-generating project (1982-1986).

Marie-José Niesten graduated from the Agricultural University of Wageningen (1981 MSc, Household and Consumer studies) with rural extension education, gender studies, rural family sociology, and methodology of socio-economic research as main subjects.

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Social Responsible Investment and sustainable development
• Languages: English, Dutch

In April 2010 we (my husband and I) left the Netherlands to live for three years with our children in Accra, Ghana. As of October 2010 I joined MDF West Africa. For now I support the office with its external relations for three mornings a week. On the longer term I will look for projects in my field of expertise. I have worked for ten years in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability.

Before joining MDF I worked for four years as a CSR consultant at DHV. As a project manager and team member I gained experience in various advisory projects. It gave me an idea of issues companies encounter when they want to improve their environmental, social and ethical impacts. Projects were always tailor-made to client’s wishes. Clients were mainly Dutch multinationals and medium-sized enterprises, including ABN AMRO, SNS REAAL, TomTom, Samas, Corporate Express, SBM Offshore, Nutreco, CSM, Ahold en Laurus. Projects involved CSR issue analysis; CSR reporting; (Supplier) Code of Conducts; CO2 foot prints; CSR benchmarks; Implementation tools; CSR action plans; and Facilitating of workshops. I also gained experience with acquisition and marketing activities, including presentations, writing leaflets, proposals, articles and organising workshops and an annual seminar on “Sustainability reporting”.

Before working as a consultant, I have worked six years as a Sustainability Analyst at Triodos Bank. In the six years we changed from a small pioneering team into a sophisticated department and a separate company. I performed in-depth benchmark studies and individual company ratings of multinationals on their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance. It gave me a good insight into how companies deal with CSR and which issues are most relevant in different sectors. Clients were Dutch Socially Responsible Investors, including Triodos Bank, ING, MeesPierson, and PGGM. I also advised clients on CSR issues and criteria definition, I also have been the account manager for one of our clients and I organised our Stakeholder panel meetings.

I completed my Dutch Master Degree in Business Economics and Environmental Economics at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1998.

• Hospital Administration
• Health Financing and Health Insurance
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Human Resources in Health Management
• Strategic Management
• Corporate Governance
• Training Skills

William Kwasi Sabi is a Health Economist and a Health Services Administrator with Public Health skills. He is a member of the Association of African Health Economists. William Kwasi Sabi was the Deputy Director of Health Services Administration responsible for general management of hospitals, clinics, Nursing Training College and Midwifery Training College. He later became a lecturer at the Catholic University of Ghana teaching Operations Management, Principles of Management and Health Financing.

In his desire to practise health economics he joined the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) of Ghana as the Brong-Ahafo Regional Manager and later the Operations Manager. He later became a leading member of the National Monitoring and Evaluation Team of the NHIA.

William holds a Masters degree in Public Health in Health Economics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Administration (Management Option) from the University of Ghana. He holds certificates in Health Financing, Stakeholder Management, Health Policy and Change Management.