Leslie Tettey

Leslie is passionate about seeing children learning and attaining quality outcomes in life and that has reflected in his commitment to work in the development sector and especially in education. He has over 18 years’ experience working in leadership roles in the social and development sector, with focus on programme management, strategy development, partnership building and networking, especially working with Government, NGOs and Charities in the education sector. He also has extensive experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and institutional capacity building.

His professional experience is largely at very senior and leadership levels where he successfully developed and managed dynamic teams with diverse skills and background to achieve organizational goals and targets. These includes leading the integration of
technology, especially digital reading approaches to enhance foundational learning in Ghana and West Africa under Worldreader as Regional Director for West Africa; providing strategic Monitoring Evaluation Learning and Capacity building support for government monitoring systems in education as the Deputy Chief of Party for USAID Partnership for Education-Evaluating Systems activity and leading programme management, coalition building and civil society advocacy for improved education service delivery as the National Co-ordinator of Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC).

Leslie also specializes in providing expert advice and strategic guidance on integrating critical contextual issues in project implementation and engaging with government officials, district level teams, teachers, and civil society leaders for program implementation success. Leslie has served on a number of multi-stakeholder technical working groups and committees of the Ministry of Education including the Project Steering Committee of the Global Partnership for Education; Basic Education Research Group; the Complementary Basic Education Programme Steering Committee, Teacher Rationalization.