STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu, Executive Director, has been inducted into the Prestigious Northern Sector Youth & Mentors Achievers’ Awards Hall of Fame as a ‘Special Star Achiever’.

He was inducted during an engagement with some civil society organisations (CSOs) in Tamale in the Northern region.

The engagement formed part of activities to mark the 5th anniversary of STAR-Ghana Foundation, a national centre for promoting active citizenship and local philanthropy for sustainable development.

The Foundation was set up as part of efforts to find a space, and a mechanism that will enable a better coordination of development efforts, and to ask the fundamental questions about the state of affairs.

Again, it was to find a space that will help hold the hands of very young organisations and support them to grow to take their places.

Alhaji Shani Alhassan Shaibu (left), Northern Regional Minister presents a plaque to Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu, Executive Director, STAR-Ghana Foundation

Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu is the Foundation’s first Executive Director and principal technical advisor, ensuring that STAR-Ghana Foundation is utilising, developing and applying best practices and providing inspired thought leadership within the organisation. Ibrahim-Tanko has been involved in development management, civil society strengthening and social development for over 25 years. He has extensive experiences that span from facilitating strategic planning processes, design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, institutional strengthening of state and non-state actors at all levels of governance and programme management. He has led in the development and implementation of social development and voice and accountability programmes and projects at all levels of governance, ranging from small integrated rural development projects to the multi-donor pooled national governance fund, STAR-Ghana.

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Ibrahim-Tanko is a seasoned development professional and has worked extensively with the Government of Ghana, local and international Civil Society Organisations and Bilateral Aid Agencies in Ghana. He was the Team Leader of the first and second phases of the STAR-Ghana programme, a multi-donor pooled fund.

Congratulations Alhaji Tanko!