GHEI's Annual Leadership Retreat

GHEI held its annual retreat in Winneba this year with thirteen people in attendance. The first three days of the five-day retreat focused on discussion to develop GHEI’s five-year strategic plan. These discussions included refining our vision, reviewing GHEI’s history to launch a discussion of values, discussing baseline quantitative and qualitative research, establishing priority areas and approaches and drafting five-year plans by sector.

We also created a plan to improve our capacity building approach that will start with a comprehensive assessment by Jen Artibello, our Education Program Coordinator and Clement Donkor, GHEI’s Program Director. One component of in-service training will be on planning and monitoring programs and will be led by Jen Artibello through weekly sessions in January-March 2011.

In an effort to improve our focus on girls, we created a plan to increase the percentage of girls to 60% in our early childhood education, youth education and scholarship programs. We will also begin an annual award for the top female student in Senior High School. A new quarterly staff evaluation process was approved at retreat as well.

The completion of retreat was marked by an award ceremony for staff.