World Children's Relief » http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85101 http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog Executive Director's blog Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 WCR is Grateful for Our Quality Staff http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog/wcr-is-grateful-for-our-quality-staff/ http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog/wcr-is-grateful-for-our-quality-staff/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:56:30 +0000 admin http://www.worldchildrensrelief.org/blog/wcr-is-grateful-for-our-quality-staff/ This relevant article on building capacity through local African think tanks ends on a critical note, it’s extremely difficult to find and retain staff. [ Retaining top quality staff is a challenge, according to Jean Mensa, executive director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a Ghanaian think tank and a grant recipient. ] Africa Director, Emmanuel Sam, 6 years. Sierra Leone Facilitators, Koroma and Kamara, 6 years. Senegal facilitator, Mane Faly, 4 years. Lodmell and Wortham, 8 years. Way to go!

“Up until now we have had to work on specific short-term programmes determined by the funding we received. Recruiting and retaining staff was our biggest challenge,” Mensa told IRIN.

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