Dr Tandoh-Offin is currently a Senior Lecturer and Dean of the School of Public Service and Governance (SPSG) at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA. He teaches regular and professional development courses on Program Monitoring, Evaluation and Social Research Techniques Policy Formulation, Decentralization and Local Government Systems, Gender, and Development Planning and Management. He also facilitates on training and capacity building programs at GIMPA in areas of institutional strengthening, result-based program/project management and general capacity development for local and international public, private, and non-profit organizations.

He also does independent consulting in areas of development management generally and specifically in projects/programs Monitoring, Evaluation and Social Action Research, Local Governance and Community Development. He has consulted for several public, private and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the EU, CIDA, DfID, GIZ, STAR-Ghana, CARITAS Ghana, and Lundin Foundation among others, and the Government of Ghana. He has been involved evaluation and social action research assignments on behalf of Agriconsulting Europe (AESA) and Local Government Service (Ghana), Ministry of Special Development Initiatives (MSDI), Christian AID (DFID) and STAR Ghana Foundation Strategic Partnership Grants Calls, Ministry for Local Government and Rural Development (Modernizing Agriculture in Ghana (MAG) Project), CARITAS – Ghana, and the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC). His current research focuses on decentralization, local government administration and citizen participation; effective and responsive development planning and management.

Dr. Tandoh-Offin has served on the advisory boards and governing councils of a number of national and continental institutions such as the Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI) SDA College of Education, Koforidua, and Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) all in Ghana, and the African Management Development Institutes Network (AMDIN).

• Public (and Nonprofit) Management and Governance
• Gender, Social Policy and Development
• Impact Evaluation
• Community Development.

• Public (and Nonprofit) Management and Governance
• Gender, Social Policy and Development
• Impact Evaluation
• Community Development.

• Public Management
• Social Policy Analysis
• Governance & Decentralized Local Government
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Gender, Social Change
• Development Planning
• Leadership
• Organizational Theory
• Project Management
• Land Administration and Governance
• Research

• Patrick Tandoh-Offin, Vivian Osei, Samuel Ofori Oduro and Lord Mawuko-Yevugah (forthcoming). “Democratic Governance and Development: The Case of Public Toilet Provision in District/Communities in Ghana.” In Jacobus S. Wessels, Thean Potgieter & Thevan Naidoo, (eds.), Public Administration Challenges: Cases from Africa. Funded by the European Union, Juta and Company, Cape Town, South Africa: pp.147-162.
• Ebenezer Adaku, Kingsley S. Agomor, Charles Teye Amoatey & Tandoh-Offin, P (2020). “Regional legislative evaluation capacity and the oversight function: a diagnostic study of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament.” The Journal of Legislative Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2020.1848080.
• Patrick Tandoh-Offin (2019). “Ghana and Global Development Agendas: The Case of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).” African Journal of Public Sector Development Governance, Vol. 2(1): pp.49 – 69.
• Patrick Tandoh-Offin and Gbensuglo A. Bukari (2018). “Governance and the Socio-Economic Development Debate in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Perspectives in Ghana.” African Journal of Public Sector Development Governance, Vol. 1(1): pp.50 – 63.
• Tandoh-Offin and Nicholas Awuse (2013). “Internal Migration and Poverty Reduction in Ghana” Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, Vol. 4 (18): pp. 63 -70.
• Tandoh-Offin (2013). “Development Planning in Ghana since 1992: Implications for the Decentralization Process.” International Relations and Diplomacy, Vol. 1(2): pp. 93 – 107.
• Tandoh-Offin, P. (2011). “The State of Community Development Foundations in South Carolina: Implications for Rural Development.” International NGO Journal, Vol.6 (2): pp. 48-56.
• Tandoh-Offin, P. 2010. “Evolving Rural-Urban Interdependence: Challenges and Opportunities for Community Economic Development.” Journal of Geography and Regional Planning, Vol. 3(12): pp. 339 – 345.
• Tandoh-Offin, P. 2010. “A Review of Environmental Entrepreneurship as an Agenda for Rural Development: The Case for Ghana.” Journal of African Studies and Development, 2(2): pp. 27-34.
• Tandoh-Offin, P. (2010) Review of The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria, Public Integrity, Vol. 12 (3): pp. 279 – 282.

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