Ewurasi is an Office Assistant, Business Development Officer, and a member of the CDC Group in-charge of the Western Regional Office. In this role, she coordinates and assists all projects for the team within the jurisdiction and is responsible for costing, monitoring and evaluation, data collection and analysis, as well as generation of general reports for ongoing projects within the Region and its environs.
At CDC, Ewurasi brings on board over eight (8) years of experience in general office administration, coordination, training roles and HR-related matters. She is committed to good customer relations and retention, staff management and standard entrepreneurship planning to progress business continuity. She has gained expertise in the areas of leadership, management and digital literacy. This is to help MSMEs grow, instilling profitability and sustainability measures to make their businesses viable.
She has offered unlimited training, coaching and administrative services on capacity-building interventions for SMEs/MSMEs under projects including the Ghana Local Economic Development Programme (International Finance Corporation initiatives); Access to Finance Programme (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) initiatives). She has, under these projects, worked with business owners and management, coached, and tracked the growth of MSMEs in line with developed strategic business plans.
Being an avid promoter of eliminating social, economic, and cultural barriers that prevent women and youth-owned enterprises from succeeding and advancing, Ewurasi coordinates all initiatives under The Creation Hub (a subsidiary of CDC Group) which seeks to offer Entrepreneurship Development Programmes for member businesses, with the primary objective of looking for grants to nurture, invest in and oversee start-ups and unemployed graduates who have the desire to venture into entrepreneurship. The Creation Hub conducts intensive applicant profiling to select the most qualified and suitable to participate in the Hub’s programmes.
She actively participates in research to help enterprises within the geographical area take advantage of the available local resources to develop their various businesses up to international standards and enable them reposition their institutions adequately for contracts within the mining sector and the oil and gas chain.
Ewurasi is a detail-oriented team member with strong organisation communication and interpersonal skills which she brings on board projects. She holds a Master of Science in Management and Human Resource Strategy and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology.