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Kofi Owusu-Tieku

Founder & Principal Consultant

Kofi Owusu-Tieku is an international expert in performance management, monitoring, and evaluation with over 45 years of experience in the humanitarian and development sectors.

His career has taken him from emergency food operations in the Horn of Africa to headquarters-level policy work at the United Nations, and into the field as an M&E specialist for US government-funded development compacts in Southern Africa.

Today, Kofi draws on this deep institutional knowledge — combined with modern AI-assisted tools — to help governments and organizations design better programs, measure what matters, and make evidence-based decisions.

Career Highlights

Emergency Coordinator

UN World Food Programme

Eritrea

Early 2000s

Managed large-scale food aid operations for hundreds of thousands of conflict-displaced people. Coordinated logistics, field teams, and donor reporting in one of the WFP's most complex emergency programs.

Senior Results-Based Management Officer

UN World Food Programme

Rome, Italy (HQ)

WFP Headquarters

Developed and embedded Results-Based Management systems across WFP's global programs. Supported country offices in designing M&E frameworks and strengthening organizational accountability.

M&E Specialist

Millennium Challenge Account — Namibia

Namibia

MCA-Namibia Compact

Key contributor to monitoring and evaluation for large-scale US-government funded development compacts. Designed performance measurement frameworks and reported progress to the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Principal Consultant

Performance Improvement Consulting Ltd / RI Consult cc

Windhoek, Namibia

Current

Advising public and private sector institutions on AI-enabled and data-driven approaches to improve sustainable performance. Serving governments, NGOs, and international organizations across Africa and beyond.

Areas of Expertise

Specialized knowledge built across four decades of fieldwork, policy, and advisory engagements worldwide.

Strategic Planning & M&E Systems

Designing complex monitoring and evaluation frameworks, logframes, and Results-Based Management systems for international programs and development compacts.

Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk

Risk assessment and evidence-based adaptation strategies for organizations operating in climate-vulnerable and disaster-prone regions.

Data Analysis & Visualization

Quantitative and qualitative data collection, mobile field survey applications, and performance dashboards using modern AI-assisted tools.

Humanitarian Operations

Large-scale emergency coordination and food aid program management for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Sectors of Experience

Agriculture, rural development, financial services, audit, making markets work for the poor (M4P), and public sector institutional reform.

AI-Assisted Consulting

Applying modern AI tools and data-driven methods to enhance the speed, quality, and accessibility of consulting deliverables for development clients.

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