About Us

Who we are

Established in December, 2013, EP-Africa is an NGO operating in Ghana. Building on over 10 years of experience.


Target: Youth (15-35 years), MSMEs and Smallholder Farmers (SHFs).


Cross cutting themes: GESI, climate adaptation and mitigation, strong institutions, and effective governance.

Location: Koforidua, E/R-Ghana. Operational areas: Nationwide.

To be a leading force in Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation

Our vision

Inclusive social and economic development and prosperous Africa where every individual is free from poverty and hunger, living in harmony with the environment.

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Escape Poverty-Africa seeks to achieve an end to poverty through research and capacity building

Our Mission

Forge strategic partnerships and alliances to design and implement innovative programmes aimed at making knowledge, skills, appropriate technologies and resources available and accessible to the youth, MSMEs, Smallholder Farmers (SHFs) and communities.

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We Seek to Explore Partnerships to Carry out Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Activities

Partnership Intent

Escape Poverty-Africa is seeking partnerships with Donors, Government, Private Sector, and International Development Organizations (INGOs) that are interested in partnering with Ghanaian NGOs to co-create and implement programs in the Agri-Food, Green Business, Circular Economy, and Sustainable Energy sectors.


We are also seeking to explore partnerships to carry out research, monitoring, and evaluation activities to inform program design, implementation, scale-up, and investment decision-making.

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Escape Poverty (EP)-Africa has a very robust corporate governance system in place

Capacity Statement

Escape Poverty (EP)-Africa is led by a very dynamic Director with 18+ years’ experience in Private Sector Development and Project Management with focus on Sustainability, Environmental and Social Performance Management, Entrepreneurship and MSMEs Development, Climate Change, renewable energy, green business, Clean Cooking, Low Carbon Technologies, Partnerships Development, and resource mobilization.


Escape Poverty (EP)-Africa has a very robust corporate governance system in place; a 7-member Advisory Board with a strong background in accounting and finance, Leadership and Governance, Business Law and human rights, Information Technology, Entrepreneurship and small enterprises development, agriculture and agribusiness development and good governance.


We have an Accountant and Operations Manager with over 15 years of experience in banking and the non-profit sector. 2016 edition of QuickBooks accounting software is used for project accounting, financial management, and reporting.


The organization is composed of 5 permanent staff, 30 contract staff at peak seasons, and 50 Associate Consultants (20 international and 30 local consultants) with over 15 years of experience and expertise in the field of development spanning research, monitoring and evaluation, agriculture and agribusiness, financial management and accounting, resource mobilization, program and project management, entrepreneurship and enterprises development, environment, economics, transparency, and good governance. We leverage the experiences and expertise of our Associate Consultants in the successful delivery of assignments for our clients.

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Building on over 10 years of experience and grounded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Success stories

Farm Development Plan (FDP) Program

Increased farm yield for 3500 Cocoa farmers due to adoption of best agronomic practices such as timely weeds control, fertilizer application and pruning.


3500 cocoa farmers adopt climate smart agricultural practices such as planting of shade trees on cocoa farms.


3,500 cocoa farmers in Ashanti, Western and Brong Ahafo regions receive coaching support to ensure best farm management practices.


MSMEs associations development and capacity strengthening

80% of MSME associations transition from informal to formal state through registration with Registrar General’s Department, District Assemblies and Ghana Revenue Authority


Adoption of best business practices such as business records keeping and improved customer relations


Improved capacity of MSMEs to access finance; able to show cash flow, Profit, Loss statements etc. to financial institutions


100% of MSMEs recorded increased sales and profits


100% of MSMEs associations able to develop constitutions to govern their operations


10 MSMEs associations coached and mentored to develop business plans


Research, Monitoring and Evaluation

Completed soil mapping and data collection on 150 cocoa farms in the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Western Regions that fed into the production of Map to the Future (M2F): Integrating soil mapping into cocoa farm development plans in Ghana report.


Research on access to finance and BDS services in the Western Region successfully completed; meeting client quality expectation and deadline.


Aquaculture Project Terminal Evaluation successfully completed; meeting client quality expectation and timeline.


Ghana Cocoa Rehabilitation Project

750 Hectares of CSSDV infested and overaged cocoa farms treated (pre weeding, cutting, arboricide application and hacking)


GPS locations and area measurements of all treated sites recorded and shared with client.


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The Team

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Bridget Menyeh is an energy and international development consultant with expertise and research interests in energy access, financing of renewable energy, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.


She holds a PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland. Her PhD involved the use of discrete choice analysis for studying preferences for environmental goods and services.


Prior to enrolling on the CEPMLP PhD programme, she worked as a Consultant for SNV Netherlands Development Organization in Accra, Ghana on projects involving climate innovation, clean cookstove, REDD+ as well as other alternative livelihood improvement projects. More recently, she has been involved in alternative finance research working with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, the University of Cambridge and on the CrowdFundRes Horizon 2020 project, funded by the European Union. She completed her master’s degree in energy and the environment from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, and a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Ghana, Legon.

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