Mr Francis Ansong joined Khulisa in 2022 as the Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP) focusing primarily on providing support to the Chief of Party (CoP) and the Peace through Evaluation, Learning and Adaptation Activity II (PELA II), with the mandate of providing Monitoring and Evaluation, Collaborating, Learning and Adapting as well as communication services to USAID West Africa. Francis currently serves as the CoP of PELA II.

In addition to his role as the CoP, Mr. Otieno has over 18 years of demonstrated experience in project design and implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) mechanisms, business development, trade and investment promotion, communication, sales and marketing. Francis can synthesize and present evidence-based feedback and recommendations to guide/strengthen programmatic adaptive management, policy development as well as to influence decision-making at the level of donors and stakeholders. Prior to joining PELA II, Mr. Ansong worked with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s Lead Researcher tasked with ‘Mapping the state of national-local cooperation on P/CVE in West Africa. He conducted both field and remote data collection across the sub-region. He also served as the DCoP for USAID West Africa’s Partnerships for Peace (P4P) Program, where he served as the Regional Field Coordinator before taking up the DCoP role, during which he worked with the P4P team to support Sahelian countries in the development of their National P/CVE strategies.

Francis Ansong holds a double Masters in Political Communication and Marketing from the University of Versailles Saint Quentin (UVSQ), a Bachelor of Arts degree from UVSQ and a first degree from the University of Ghana.

Francis speaks fluent English, French, Twi, Ewe and Ga.